Chapter 194 Training (I)
The engine research and development team of Aoba Motor's Chiang Mai branch also tested the use of new materials to manufacture micro gas turbines.
In fact, the use of micro gas turbines in automobiles still faces some problems.
For example, it has low thermal efficiency at low idle speed, too much noise, and high manufacturing cost.
But these problems, in the final analysis, are actually two problems: ideas and materials.
The engine research and development team of Aoba Motors did not use micro gas turbines as direct power, but adopted a hybrid power concept.
The gas turbine is used directly as direct power at high speeds, and electric power is used at medium and low speeds. At the same time, the gas turbine is maintained at a high-speed operation state to drive the micro-generator to generate electricity and charge the lead-acid battery.
There is no need for lithium batteries, solid-state batteries, ternary composite batteries, etc. Safe and cheap lead-acid batteries are the best choice.
In order to support the lead-acid batteries, Qingye Automobile also opened a lead-acid battery factory that specializes in the production of lead-acid batteries for automobiles. It also uses sulfur dioxide purifiers to eliminate sulfur dioxide emitted by lead-acid batteries.
The noise problem of gas turbines can actually be reduced through design and the installation of sound insulation layers.
Finally, there is the issue of the thermal efficiency of micro gas turbines. The reason why the thermal efficiency of micro gas turbines is not high is actually related to the inability to carry out multi-stage recycling of waste heat. This is the advantage of large gas turbines.
If a multi-stage thermal cycle is to be implemented in a micro gas turbine system, the cost will rise sharply.
So how does Qingye Automobile solve this problem?
Ultimately it comes down to a material issue.
Since the thermal efficiency of a single-stage cycle is not high and multi-stage cycles will make the system complex and costly, why not increase the pressure and speed?
Just like the supercritical power generation technology in thermal power plants.
With the material support of Zhiren Company behind it, Qingye Automobile is taking this technical route.
Increasing the combustion chamber pressure of the gas turbine and increasing the air intake will increase the impeller speed to 35,000 revolutions per minute.
This improvement can further reduce the size of the micro gas turbine.
After all, the improvement of thermal efficiency also means the improvement of unit power. The power consumption of automobiles has been fixed in a range. Therefore, to supply the same power, the size of the new micro gas turbine must be further reduced.
Another benefit of reducing size is that noise will also decrease.
Aoba Automobile's gas turbine technology route is a hybrid power route that is equipped with various new technologies.
The high thermal efficiency of the gas turbine when running at high speed is used to charge the lead-acid battery. In addition, not too many lead-acid batteries are needed on board the vehicle. A full charge is enough to allow the vehicle to run 50 kilometers.
After all, this is a hybrid vehicle that can be charged anytime and anywhere. Equipping it with a large-capacity battery would be a waste of resources.
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Wu Haishen, manager of the branch, listened to the reports from the engine R&D team, transmission R&D team, and transmission system R&D team.
He put down the documents in his hand and raised his glasses: "In other words , our various components have basically met the standards?"
"Yes, there is no problem with our engine."
"All five transmissions can be put into use." Guan Jianzhi asked hesitantly, "Manager Wu, will the supply cost of these parts be too high?"
Wu Haishen took out another document and flipped through the parts quotes on it: "No! The overall cost has dropped by about 37%."
"What?" Guan Jianzhi looked as if he had seen a ghost.
Then the heads of other projects also started talking about it.
Apparently they thought that the parts supplier might be playing tricks by selling inferior products as good ones, first using low-priced high-quality samples to lure orders, and then reducing the supply.
After listening to everyone's discussion, Wu Haishen shook his head: "Don't worry! No one dares to play tricks on this matter."
As the manager of the spider web, Wu Haishen knows that the Sea Snail New Materials Company is a sister company and part of the Homo Sapiens Company.
The reason why they can supply high-quality parts at low prices is, on the one hand, because Aoba Group is their own company, and on the other hand, Sea Snail will not lose money.
After all, compared with traditional smelting, casting, and subtractive processing, new materials manufactured using biosynthesis technology not only reduce the number of steps, but also significantly reduce production costs.
This cost advantage must of course be utilized internally.
If it is supplied to outsiders, the price will definitely be higher than similar parts on the market.
After hearing Wu Haishen's solemn assurance, although Guan Jianzhi and others were a little unconvinced, they still did not dare to raise questions openly. After all, the production line must be subject to quality inspection.
In their hearts, they just hope that the parts suppliers will have some conscience and not end up in a situation where everyone is embarrassed.
After an internal meeting, Aoba Motors Chiang Mai Branch began full-scale production.
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At this time, Chiang Mai Province has almost become a construction site.
There are six large automobile factories, several motorcycle factories, and a large number of supporting factories, requiring hundreds of thousands of industrial workers.
However, Siam's population is only 66.17 million, and there is obviously a huge gap in the labor demand for hundreds of thousands of industrial workers .
After all, Siam was previously a mainly agricultural region. Although there were 12 years of compulsory education and the education level within was relatively good, it was generally at the high school level, with only a small number of college students.
In addition, Siam advocates Western education model and does not focus on science and engineering.
Industrial workers not only need a certain level of education, but preferably they have college or junior college degrees in science and engineering.
It is obviously too much to ask college students who have received Western education to become industrial workers. Unless they are desperate, they would rather work for foreign companies or take the civil service exam than become industrial workers.
Therefore, Sapiens still needs to find a way to solve this problem on its own.
The first construction company of Chiang Mai Group.
The company contracted the construction project of Chiang Mai Group's Glory Automobile Factory and recruited a large number of young migrant workers.
Construction workers are divided into small teams, squadrons and brigades and are subject to strict internal management.
Many squadron leaders and platoon leaders are actually retired Thai soldiers. These people have been retrained, the scum have become soldiers, and those with improvement value have become new humans.
Shishan Sameng is a retired soldier. Since he had no bad record, he was recruited as a new type of person. He was trained at the Chiang Mai Re-employment Training School for more than a month before he became the squadron leader of a construction company.
In order to adapt to the interpersonal relationships within the company, he also specially gave himself a Chinese name: Meng Shi.
At this time, he was checking the progress of the project when suddenly the intercom rang:
"All squadron leaders and above, please come to the manager's office for a meeting within half an hour..."
After three times in a row, Meng Shi shouted to several team leaders: "Work hard and don't be lazy."
"knew!"
"Boss, don't worry!"
Several team leaders quickly replied.
As for Meng Shi, whether they are ordinary construction workers or team leaders, they all respect and fear him.
The main reason is that his style is too upright, not at all like someone who came from the Thai army.
Meng Shi ignored his subordinates and hurried to the office where the meeting was held.
More than a dozen squadron leaders and several brigade leaders, as well as several department heads, arrived at the office one after another.
The manager was Wu Xinhe who came from Hongsawadi. When he saw that everyone was present, he got straight to the point:
"You will be busy with your next work. The company has a plan to launch and needs your cooperation."
"Manager Wu, what's the plan?" asked Captain Bakun.
"Take a look at it for yourselves! One copy for each person." After Wu Xinhe said this, he distributed a pile of documents to everyone present.
Meng Shi got the document and couldn't wait to open it.
This is a plan for training industrial workers. The core of the plan is very simple. It requires each construction team to set up a study class, select those construction workers who are willing to learn and change careers, and then provide these people with comprehensive training.
The training time is in night school mode, and the teachers in charge of the training are new people within the company. In addition, a group of engineers and technicians are dispatched from the automobile factory to serve as temporary training teachers.
As new humans, Meng Shi and others only underwent more than a month of training. Later, they independently learned some knowledge in their spare time. With the help of biochips, their cultural level is actually not bad.
"Do you need all the requirements after graduating from high school?" Meng Shi frowned.
Wu Xinhe smiled and shook his head: "What else? Do you think those college students will come to work on the assembly line?"
The others reacted immediately.
They are all experienced people. Siam has many college students graduating every year. The problem is that the elites among these people have already gone to Singapore, Europe and the United States.
The rest of the group stayed in the big cities.
Although Chiang Mai is also the second largest city, the problem is that these college students generally want to enter the fields of finance, management, IT, pharmaceuticals, design, education and medicine.
They will not consider hard and tiring jobs such as construction, machinery, metallurgy, etc. unless the salary is high.
The purpose of the Intelligent Company is to make money, not to provide benefits, so training its own talents is the best option at the moment.
Each of its construction companies is screening construction workers who are willing to work hard, and then setting up internal night schools and crash courses.
The entire automobile industry in Chiang Mai Province will need hundreds of thousands of industrial workers in the future, and these workers can only be trained from these high school students in their teens and twenties.
Fortunately, Siam has done well in basic education, and there are quite a lot of unemployed people in the country, otherwise there would not be such a developed gray entertainment industry.
Especially those graduates with high school diplomas, they are the most embarrassing group in Siam, with a little culture but not enough jobs.
If you are from the countryside, it’s okay. At worst you can go home and farm.
Those high school graduates who were born in cities can only live in the city, or give up their dignity and sell their bodies.
Therefore, Chiang Mai Group's construction company easily recruited a large number of young high school graduates as construction workers.
Now we are opening another channel for them to rise. As long as they are willing to learn and hope to change their status quo, becoming an industrial worker is also a good path.
