A group of people surrounded Xiao Letian and walked into the huge workshop No. 0. This workshop with a total of more than 2,000 square meters was full of various machinery, and a series of metal processing equipment for turning, milling, planing, grinding and drilling were complete!

Six steam engines on the north side of the factory provide power to the entire workshop, and these steam engines are luxuriously burning gasoline and diesel. The pure white smoke floats out of the chimney, which is not as polluted as black smoke in the industrial zone of this era.

"It's really a local source of materials, it's so extravagant! Just burn oil, hahaha..." Xiao Letian smiled.

"Yes... Borneo is seriously short of coal, and it is too uneconomical to transport it by sea, so we burn these by-products after refining kerosene, otherwise it would be a waste..."

Renyoumon bent his waist like a shrimp, and answered with the unique care of Fusang people!

The mid-19th century was the beginning of humanity's commercial use of petroleum products. Earlier, most of the oil was used in the military and rarely used in the civilian world!

Because the oil mined is a mixed solution, petroleum is actually a compound of carbon and hydrogen, and this kind of thing is called hydrocarbons in chemical form!

A magical solution that combines alkanes, cycloalkanes, aromatic hydrocarbons, etc. with water, natural gas, and various impurities!

The colors, flavors, and compositions of oil under different geological conditions are different, and they are also used in a variety of ways!

There are many taboos in the use of natural oil. Why did the use of oil be recorded three to four thousand years ago? But until the 19th century, people still burn firewood and coal to keep warm?

Even lighting uses candle oil lamps instead of oil lighting?

The key is that this kind of hydrocarbon that is full of impurities is too dangerous. Direct combustion will produce a large amount of toxic gases, which are used to make fire and cook with spicy and pungent taste!

If you use it to light the light, your eyes will be sour and sour in a short while!

In the final analysis, there are too many impurities in the original oil!

It was not until 1853 that Polish scientist Agnas Lukasivich used distillation to process oil, and this was the emergence of the commodity kerosene!

Through high-temperature distillation and cooling cycle, and using the principle of different boiling points of different materials in the mixed solvent, oil was finally tamed!

Diesel, gasoline, kerosene, asphalt...layers of materials were stripped out, and civilian petroleum products began to become extremely abundant!

But at the end of the 19th century, the main petroleum products people used were kerosene, while most of the gasoline and diesel were thrown away as by-products!

Doesn’t it seem like a very prodigal? But at that time, the world’s refineries still handled diesel and gasoline!

Without a market, no one buys these fuels at all. Refineries can only use these "wastes" as fuel for heating in winter. If it comes to summer, it will be even worse. People will burn these "wastes" directly!

For people today, only kerosene is useful because it can be used for combustion and lighting. Moreover, during mechanical processing, kerosene can also be used as mechanical cleaning agents, and its uses are very wide!

Diesel is not good, the ignition point is too high and the combustion is not sufficient, and the smoke is very big...bad review!

Gasoline is not good either. If the ignition point is too low, it will easily evaporate and even explode... Bad reviews!

After choosing, kerosene indicators are very consistent and suitable for civil use. Therefore, kerosene is used in petrochemical products in various countries to make profits!

In the workshop No. 0 that Xiao Letian saw today, all the power sources of machinery come from gasoline and diesel. After it was not refined, it was sent away for sale!

The remaining useless gasoline and diesel replaced the coal and began to burn, creating water vapor to promote the steam engine!

Xiao Letian said that their luxury was actually judged from the perspective of his previous life. In this era, gasoline and diesel are really waste thrown away!

"This situation will not be long! Believe me, the things you burned out today will be destined to be the most precious commodity in the future, and it can even change the pattern of the entire world!"

Walking in a steampunk-style workshop, walking through machines, with official roads everywhere on the head and feet, and many areas with poor sealing are leaking neatly!

Nanyang was already very hot, but the temperature here was even higher. After walking for three or four minutes, Xiao Letian had to unbutton the collar. When Renyoumon saw that the head of state was sweating, he quickly took out a Japanese folding fan and opened it to Xiao Letian.

"It's so hot here... I'm very sorry... I'm very sorry..."

"What are you sorry for?" Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and snatched his fan and fanned himself. "You Fusang people are too polite. I haven't eaten any hardships? You don't need to show your diligence... Take me to see the number zero machine!"

Bypassing the maze-like machinery and goods, a clear space of more than 100 meters suddenly appeared in front of me. It was clean and tidy in the chaotic workshop.

On the brick platform, a strange machine emitting this metallic light is lying quietly here!

"Head, this is the No. 0 internal combustion engine! It is made completely according to the principle of Otto cycle... This is the gas delivery pipe, this is the cylinder, this is the spark plug for ignition, this is the crank..."

Yuan Chao presented treasures to the head of state just like introducing his own children. This is the first internal combustion engine that can be operated by the Chinese. They even considered using such an internal combustion engine to drive the oil production well to extract underground oil!

Xiao Letian frowned and put away his fan, reaching out to touch the slightly hot metal!

"Why... why is it so big!"

Could it be that big? The entire brick platform is three meters long and two meters wide, and the huge internal combustion engine slowly takes up the platform!

"I have to admit that the structure of your internal combustion engine is correct, and the Alto cycle four-stroke is the most correct design direction... cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts, flywheels... are all complete!"

"But...but why is it so big? And what's going on with the pipe and the big backpack behind it?"

Xiao Letian reached out and held a copper tube, walked slowly backwards, and after leaving the brick platform, there was a huge steel tank more than one person tall on the outside of the open space!

Renyoumon walked over quickly and unscrewed the valve of the steel tank. "Head of the People's Republic of China, this is a gas tank! It is pressurized gas inside, and this internal combustion engine burns gas!"

"Ignite the fire and let the head see for himself how the four-stroke internal combustion engine works!"

When the gas valve is opened, the spark plug generates current, and the gas in the cylinder is burned to generate high-pressure air and heat. The piston that is back and forth pushes the crankshaft and starts to move!

"It's moving! Our internal combustion engine is moving!" There was an excited cheer around, followed by applause!

The piston is getting faster and faster, the crankshaft begins to move faster, and the flywheel starts to rotate at a high speed while the crankshaft rotates. What is even more surprising is that the flywheel does not rotate meaninglessly, and the rotation shaft also drives a small machine to move.

Renyoumon pointed to two copper wires standing in parallel in the air and shouted, "There's electricity... We have also made a generator... In the future, we don't need to crank the power to generate electricity by hand!"

Sizzling... Sizzling...

Blue arcs appear on parallel copper wires, entangled with each other to form strange and beautiful figures!

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