Chapter 1054 Super Yacht (Part 1)
Generally speaking, the core engine is an engine core component composed of a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine developed to shorten the development cycle of a new engine, improve reliability, or develop various types of gas turbine engines.
Gas turbines, turbofan jet engines, turboprop engines, and turboshaft engines have similar working principles. They all belong to the rotor type of engines, and they are all developed from the core engine. The turbofan engine is the kind used on fighter jets and airliners; the turboshaft engine is the propeller engine used on fixed-wing aircraft; the turboprop engine uses a drive shaft to output torque, which is what is used on helicopters; In fact, it is transformed from a turboshaft engine,
Add some performance such as resistance to seawater corrosion, and gas turbines can be used on warships. Civilian cargo ships basically don't use this kind of thing, because it consumes too much fuel and is not cost-effective. Warships use combined power, which is a combination of diesel engines and gas turbines. Diesel engines are used when cruising, and gas turbines are used when fighting.
What Guo Tailai wants to do is such a set of combined power marine engines. Of course, it must not be such an exaggeration to push a warship with tens of thousands of tons or tens of thousands of tons. A small yacht can only support a few hundred tons. Otherwise, how could the speed increase?
As early as last year, Guo Tailai asked General Li to help select a yacht manufacturer and rented a shipyard. Before the Spring Festival, large-scale procurement work had already begun, and various materials in Guo Tailai's plan had been procured in place one after another. stacked in the warehouse next to the dock.
Some preliminary work has also started early, such as the marine system, which was developed and debugged in the company last year. Similarly, the control program for the engine has also been developed early.
In addition to the metal materials for shipbuilding and the composite carbon fiber materials used in the A380 purchased to reduce weight, there are also a large number of room decoration materials, ceramics, pipelines, stones, expensive wood, etc. If people who don’t know see these, get ready materials, you may think that this is to decorate the house.
But they are right in guessing this way. What Guo Tailai wants to build is a luxury yacht with a length of more than 40 meters. There are three floors in total. There are two king-size staterooms and a luxurious king-level VIP suite, a luxury yacht that can accommodate eight crew members and up to ten guests. There is also an open plan galley and dining room large enough for all the guests and the crew, plus a huge living room, a bar and entertainment center.
All the decorations on the ship are built according to ultra-luxury standards, even the crew quarters are no exception, which are even worse than five-star hotels. As for the VIP suite, it goes without saying that what Guo Tailai directly refers to is the highest domestic standard.
Of course, Guo Tailai's move is definitely not only for luxury, but also for the ultimate performance. Since we want to build, build the fastest yacht.
Currently the fastest yacht in the world is Moonraker, which set a world record of 66.7 knots in 2000. What Guo Tailai wants to build is the only Millennium 140 superyacht in the world that can reach 70 knots in the next few years. It has a more beautiful name, called "the World is not Enough". Do you still remember the "Dark Crisis (007: The World Is Not Enough)" in the 007 series of movies? That's how it's named.
The World is not Enough, Guo Tailai likes this name. After it was built, the ship was named "the World is not Enough".
The largest vehicle Guo Tailai ever built, that is, the armored bus, was only twelve meters long. The length of this ship reached 42.4 meters, which greatly increased the difficulty of assembly. The processing of spare parts and various fine structures can be easily completed by Guo Tailai, but the final assembly will definitely take longer.
Of course, Guo Tailai will definitely not use the original Paxman diesel engine, he has better options. Twenty years later, after Rolls-Royce Engines and Mercedes-Benz acquired MTU, they launched a new generation of MTU series marine diesel engines with smaller size, higher power and lower fuel consumption, which is obviously a good choice.
As for the gas turbine, the original Lycoming jet vortex engine TF40 has a maximum power of only over 4,000 horsepower. Obviously, Guo Tailai has a better design in the future, such as Rolls-Royce’s MT7 marine gas turbine, which has a higher power, reaching 6,000 to 7,000 horsepower. , which also has the advantage of being smaller and more fuel-efficient. In fact, in 2012, this MT7 marine gas turbine was selected as the power system for the future hovercraft of the US Navy Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC).
The actual research and development of gas turbines is definitely not that easy. Various demonstrations, precision machining, and then various stages of test runs are almost the same as manufacturing aero engines, but these work processes are almost completely omitted here in Guo Tailai. Several engineers in the company who had studied aviation development were also assigned tasks to cooperate with a group of software engineers in the company to complete the development of the gas turbine control system, and Guo Tailai took care of all other tasks.
Precision Machining? Even twenty years later, Luo Luo's processing ability would not dare to be compared with Guo Tailai's now. Guo Tailai is a marine gas turbine manufactured according to the standards of aero-engines. This precision and Guo Tailai's assembly alone are enough to increase the standard output power by one or two percentage points.
Just for these two gas turbines, Guo Tailai had to work in his constant temperature studio for half a month before finishing the processing and assembly, and then transporting them to the shipyard. The control program was not directly tested and run on the gas turbine. Guo Tailai built a simulated environment with nano-robots in his body, and tested the entire construction time in complete and detailed manner. He was testing non-stop almost while working, and then found a BUG. , Let the programmer modify until it meets his own requirements.
For hull processing, Guo Tailai replaced all steel materials with titanium alloys, used aluminum alloys for all aluminum alloys, and used carbon fiber materials for composite carbon fiber materials to reduce the weight of the hull as much as possible.
From the end of June, Guo Tailai returned to the capital and stayed in the capital for two days before rushing to the Modu Shipyard. Until the end of August, Guo Tailai almost forgot to sleep and eat on this super yacht. From mechanical processing to pipeline layout, from processing metal parts to wooden furniture, from decoration to final painting, Guo Tailai completed it all by himself with relish.
Guo Tailai also enjoyed it, completely forgetting the passage of time. During this period, I just made a few phone calls with my parents, senior sister and Chu Fei. I didn't contact anyone else, and left everything to Lin Jiayi. Before finishing the yacht, Guo Tailai didn't intend to let anything distract you.
In less than two months, the various raw materials in the warehouse changed from raw materials to a super yacht more than 40 meters long.
The exterior of the yacht is white, and on both sides of the ship and the stern, there are dark golden English words "the World is not Enough", shining brightly under the sunlight.