City: Ocean Mining Ship

"Shit..."

Zhang Heng rubbed his eyes, thinking that he had seen it wrong, and confirmed again that he was right: "Can we process and refine super-quality fuel?"

"Yes!"

"Why didn't you remind me?" Zhang Heng asked loudly.

"Captain, I reminded you that the processing cabin has been improved."

"Oh..."

Zhang Heng was completely numb, and it seemed like this when he thought about it: "Okay, my fault, my fault... Super-quality fuel, to what extent?"

"How should I put it? Take cars as an example, for example, its..."

"Stop!"

Zhang Heng interrupted and stopped him. He was a top student in the smelting major after all. It was true that he dealt with various metal minerals the most, but crude oil was also involved: "Just tell me directly what level it has reached."

"I still have to use an analogy!"

Intelligent No. 1 felt that his calculations were a little insufficient. After a long while, he found the right statement: "Super-quality fuel, in layman's terms, is fuel that is higher than aviation grade."

"It is known that aviation fuel requires extremely high quality, excellent data, sufficient combustion to provide greater power, and extremely high requirements for its ignition point and stability, etc."

"In order to achieve the fuel used in aviation, your earth's technology adds additives on the basis of crude oil refining, and only then can it reach this level."

"And super-quality fuel does not need any additives after processing and refining, and it can reach aviation grade fuel, and it is even about 3% higher overall."

Intelligent No. 1 had no choice but to explain the situation in a more popular way, so he had to use such a long article.

"Powerful!"

Zhang Heng naturally understood. If he still didn't understand after the example, he would be wrong. But he still asked one more question: "If it is used in fighter jets, especially when the afterburner is turned on, can super-quality fuel also be used?"

As we all know!

Whether it is a passenger plane or a fighter jet, aviation-grade fuel is used. The former is almost okay, but the latter has more stringent requirements and higher quality.

Aviation-grade fuel itself has additives, but on this basis, the fuel used in fighter jets will be injected with another additive when the afterburner is turned on, which is a double-addition fuel.

"It can be completely satisfied!"

Smart No. 1 gave a positive answer and further explained: "Super-quality fuel can complete combustion, and the power it can provide is naturally greater. More importantly, it has many benefits."

"Let's make a comparison." Zhang Heng was very tired.

"The simplest example is that it is more economical, that is, more fuel-efficient. The second is the protection of the engine, which can effectively increase the service life of the engine."

Intelligent No. 1 paused, and then continued: "Like your domestic fifth-generation stealth fighter, the new engine now uses a service life of 3,800 hours. If it uses super-quality fuel, its life can be extended to about 4,060 hours."

Increased the life of 260 hours.

Fortunately, it is not a fool!

Increasing the life of the aircraft engine by 260 hours may not seem much, but insiders will definitely be surprised, because it is just a new fuel.

As for its value, 260 more hours, in a sense it is priceless.

If you really want to calculate, you can also calculate it. For example, the cost of an aircraft engine is 48 million US dollars. The life of 3,800 hours is equivalent to a depreciation cost of about 120,000 US dollars per hour.

Converted into the local currency, it is 810,000 yuan.

810,000 per hour, the additional 260 hours is 210 million.

Scary?

Not at all, because this is the truth, and this is only the loss of life of the aircraft engine, there is also an economic fuel saving?

"In this case, how much range can be achieved with full auxiliary fuel tanks?" Zhang Heng wanted to use this to calculate how fuel-efficient it is.

"Let's use your fifth-generation aircraft as an analogy. The range of a single fuel tank is between 1,500-2,000 kilometers. When fully loaded, four auxiliary fuel tanks can be added to increase the range to 6,000 kilometers, and the combat radius is 3,000 kilometers."

Intelligent No. 1 seemed to know the domestic Dragon fighter very well, and finally gave a definite answer: "Under the same conditions, using super-quality fuel, it can reach a maximum of 7,000 kilometers and a combat radius of 3,500 kilometers!"

"..."

Zhang Heng was silent, this time he was scared.

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