Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Ark boats have been basically meeting these days.

Among them are internal meetings of the Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies, as well as meetings of the STAR Institute of Mimicry, and meetings held by cooperating units…

He already had a rough blueprint in his mind for how to achieve a controllable fusion heap, but he alone could not achieve it.

As the head of this large scientific research project and the chief designer, he had to split this huge subject into small pieces, then assign it to the right people, and bring out those difficult pieces individually and concentrate on solving them.

For example, such topics as "Tritium recovery and deuterium fuel supply in plasma exhaust gas” and “Safe inclusion of tritium”, it can be seen from the literature that similar studies have been conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Consequently, these duplicative studies naturally do not need to be carried out by him, but simply provide sufficient project funding to the persons or institutions conducting research in this field, continue in-depth research and find ways to use it and apply it to the design of the simulator.

As for the more difficult subjects such as "first wall cladding material”, "anti-neutron irradiation material”, “tritium extraction in multiplication cladding”, “and tritium retention”, the ark was left to the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies, who personally led the team to overcome it.

The third day after the start of the project.

At the STAR Astronomy Institute, the ship met with a working group from the China Nuclear Industry Construction Group.

Chief engineer Wang Zengguang of the Nuclear Industry Group, who has worked in the nuclear industry for many years and has extensive experience in the design of fissile reactors and nuclear power generator units.

Although the experience accumulated on fission reactors may not be entirely applicable to fusion reactors, it is also nuclear power, and there are commonalities between the two sides.

For example, in the design of the generator set.

With regard to how to convert the thermal energy generated by the reactor into electricity, the old master brought a sketch of the design.

Drawing on the design philosophy of high temperature air cooling reactors, this set of devices can also be used for nuclear fusion power generation.

However, after a brief glance at the sketch, the ark dropped it.

“It's a waste of time to continue to burn water with such advanced technology. ”

"But you can't deny that boiling water is still the most efficient way. ”

The ark shook its head: “Not necessarily. ”

Instead of speaking, Master Wang waited for the landing boat to continue.

However, the ark did not provide any explanation, except that an a4 piece of paper was taken at random and spread out on the table, then a ballpoint pen was picked up and a sketch was drawn on it.

As the engineering level reached LV4, after a period of adaptation, he finally realized the capability enhancement effect of the engineering level.

If mathematical hierarchies reinforce learning of mathematical knowledge, numerical sensitivity, and computational ability, the engineering hierarchy further strengthens the ability to concretely describe abstract concepts with tools such as language, graphics, numbers, etc., in addition to enhancing the absorption of engineering knowledge.

Like right now.

Although he did not professionally train in mapping, he merely read the relevant books, the muscles of his arms were as if they had been remembered, even with a random stroke, as standard as a rulemap.

Looking at the action of drawing the ark, Master Wang squinted his eyes and flashed an unexpected divine color in his pupils.

“Have you ever studied mechanical drawing? ”

“No,” he smiled slightly, "perhaps when studying geometry, there are more drawings. ”

When he heard this explanation, Master Wang looked unbelievable.

Although he had never studied mathematics, even with his feet, engineering and mathematics were not the same thing.

It is impossible to do this without three or five years of practical experience with such skilled writing.

Believe it or not, the Ark does not need any explanation for this insignificant matter, but focuses exclusively on the work at hand.

First, the outline of the simulator is simply outlined with a line, and then the structure of the generator set is simply outlined on this basis.

Staring at the more and clearer lines on the diagram, Wang Yard gradually saw some doorways and lifted his eyebrows with interest.

“Magnetic fluid power generation? ”

“Yes,” stopped the pen in his hand, the ark looked at the sketch and nodded satisfactorily, "at my level, that's all I can draw, the specific design, and you experts, please. ”

Like controllable fusion technology, magnetic fluid power generation technology is not a particularly new concept, or even quite a long history.

Even on the timeline, this concept was first introduced together with the Gas-Steam Turbine Combined Cycle Technology (GTCC).

In the 1980s, magnetic fluid power generation technology was even included as a priority in the 863 programme and, to a lesser extent, was placed in parallel with fissile power generation technology.

Considering that the full title of the 863 Plan was "Recommendations for tracking the development of strategic high-tech in the world", the tracking projects were basically popular research directions of the international academic community at the time, so it was not difficult to see that magnetic fluid power generation technology was popular in the international academic community at the time.

However, as we entered the second half of the twentieth century, the situation changed.

Space, the arms race led to rapid development of engine technology and gas application technology, from which GTCC technology learned and learned a great deal of experience, culminating in a counter-attack of bend overtaking.

In contrast, while magnetic fluid technologies have seemingly more attractive prospects, they are difficult to achieve for technical reasons, economic benefits are not commensurate with market demand and have not yielded decent results for decades, so that they have gradually been abandoned by mainstream academia and industry.

Staring at this sketch, Master Wang shook his head: “With all due respect, magnetic fluid power generation technology is not perfect. I'm afraid using it to generate electricity is not an appropriate option. In today's world of nuclear fission reactors, mainly pressure water reactors, I have never heard of a nuclear power station that uses magnetic fluid power generation technology to export electricity. ”

It seems to have been expected that Master Wang would say so. The Ark laughed and continued.

“This is true for nuclear fission, but not for nuclear fusion. ”

“Oh?” Master Wang had an unexpected look on his face, throwing a gaze of questioning into the ark, “How do you say? ”

Ark: “The difficulty of magnetic fluid power generation technology is nothing more than that of gas ionization. Often it is difficult to heat gas to 2000 degrees and form a plasma beam stream, and even if it does, this process is likely to be accompanied by massive thermal energy losses, making it difficult to cycle more than 20% more efficiently with magnetic fluid power generation technology... Am I right? ”

The monk nodded and agreed: “Basically. ”

While there are other problems, this is undoubtedly the most important.

Magnetic fluid generators are not non-existent, and many laboratories are able to do it, both coal-fired and fueled, but almost no one is able to achieve energy conversion efficiency of more than 20 per cent.

But if it's nuclear fusion...

“If it's past nuclear fusion, we don't have this problem at all," said Ark, smiling and continuing, "after all, the nuclear waste generated by DT fusion itself is hundreds of millions of degrees of helium. ”

Hearing this, Wang Yaoshi's expression looked at the sketch again immediately and quickly reacted.

It is well known that the principle of magnetic fluid power generation is to heat an easily ionized gas to a high temperature of 2000 degrees, to ionize into an electrically conductive plasma beam flow, and to cut the magnetic wire when it flows at high speeds in the magnetic field, creating an induced electric potential.

And the helium generated by the "D + T” fusion reaction in the mimicry itself exists in the form of hundreds of millions of degrees of high-temperature plasma!

That means they don't need to spend any more energy heating ionizing gases, they just need to take advantage of these massive energy-carrying plasmas!

This technology is used for coal-fired, fueled, and even fissile power generation. Although it's undoubtedly chicken ribs, it's put on fusion power, and it's made for it!

Instead of using hot plasma to boil water, it is a waste.

Thinking of this, staring at the Master Wang of the sketch, his eyes gradually emerged with excitement.

He looked up again at the ark and said with caution.

“You make a little sense… in theory it seems achievable, but now I can't give you an accurate answer, and I need to go back and discuss it with the other experts in the group. ”

Then he looked at the sketch again.

“Can I take this sketch back? ”

“Sure,” the Ark nodded with joy, "I look forward to your good news. ”