bioinnovel Chapter 69 Rescue!
Chapter 69 Rescue!
Yan Zhenghua was a decisive person. He said he was inviting Zhang Yan to dinner, but he took him directly to a small private room at the very back of the faculty and staff canteen.
As soon as the door to the private room was pushed open, a strong smell of smoke hit us.
There weren't any delicacies laid out inside; the round table was cluttered with blueprints, laptops, and a few leftover lunch boxes.
Three people were sitting around the table.
The man in the very center was an old man with thinning hair, wearing an old jacket. He was staring blankly at an unfolded blueprint with a worried expression, and the cigarette in his hand was burning his fingers.
There was also a young man and woman next to them, who looked like doctoral students. They also looked pale and sickly, clearly suffering greatly from the project.
"Old Li! Stop looking at it. Looking at these blueprints won't magically make flowers grow."
Yan Zhenghua strode in, threw his briefcase onto a chair, and his tone revealed an undisguised excitement.
"I've brought you reinforcements."
The person known as "Old Li" is Li Jianguo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the head of a national key project.
He raised his head, his bloodshot eyes sweeping over Zhang Yan who was following behind him, his brows instantly furrowing into a deep frown.
"Old Yan, I'm not in the mood for jokes right now."
Li Jianguo stubbed out his cigarette, his voice hoarse, "The heat dissipation module for the 'Blue Flame' project has been stuck for three whole months, and the higher-ups are already pushing for progress. What are you doing bringing a freshman here? For a visit and learning session? Or do you want me to sign his autograph?"
The bespectacled male PhD student next to him adjusted his glasses and said in a somewhat sharp tone, "Professor Yan, our current seminar is classified. It's not proper for undergraduates to come in, is it?"
Yan Zhenghua wasn't annoyed. He just chuckled and, like someone showing off a treasure, projected a photo of the blackboard drawing Zhang Yan had just made in class onto the TV in the private room.
"Whether it's the rule or not, let's see this first before we decide."
The screen lights up.
The structural diagram of the "liquid-cooled temperature control-adaptive retractable charging pile" was clearly displayed in front of everyone.
At first, Li Jianguo just glanced at it casually.
But after that one glance, his gaze was glued to the spot, and he couldn't look away.
one second.
two seconds.
With a "whoosh".
Li Jianguo suddenly stood up from his chair, his movement so forceful that he overturned the teacup in front of him, spilling tea all over the table without even noticing.
He rushed to the television screen, his face almost touching it, his fingers trembling as he sketched the intricate piping structure.
"This...this double-loop design..."
Li Jianguo abruptly turned his head, staring intently at Yan Zhenghua, his breathing rapid. "Which research institute came up with this solution? German? Or American? This completely solves the problem of heat accumulation under high-pressure loads!"
Yan Zhenghua's face broke into a wide smile as he pointed to Zhang Yan, who was calmly finding a seat to sit down.
"Far away, yet right before my eyes."
"In my class just now, this kid spent five minutes just sketching on the blackboard."
The private room fell silent instantly.
The male PhD student who had just been looking down on Zhang Yan now stared at Zhang Yan with his mouth agape, as if he had seen an alien.
Li Jianguo was stunned for a full half minute.
He strode up to Zhang Yan, looked him up and down, and asked incredulously, "Young man, this... is this really your drawing?"
Zhang Yan pulled out a chair and sat down, then casually picked up a bottle of mineral water from the table and opened it.
I guess so.
He took a sip of water, his tone flat, "However, this design is only suitable for civilian charging stations. If it were this huge thing you're building now..."
Zhang Yan's gaze passed over Li Jianguo and landed on the blueprint spread out on the table.
That's the design drawing of the heat dissipation system for the core of the "Blue Flame" project—an ultra-high power industrial-grade energy storage station.
"These blueprints are ruined."
Zhang Yan put down the water bottle and casually uttered three words.
"What did you say?!"
The male PhD student jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "Do you know what this is? This is a solution our team spent half a year working on, going through thousands of simulations before finalizing it! You're just a freshman, what do you know about industrial-grade energy storage?"
Although the female PhD student didn't say anything, her eyes were full of hostility as she looked at Zhang Yan.
Although Li Jianguo appreciated the design of the charging station, his face darkened when he heard Zhang Yan so bluntly deny their hard work.
"Young man, it's good for young people to be proud, but you can't be too sure of yourself."
Li Jianguo pointed to the core area on the blueprint, "The design of this liquid cooling channel uses the most advanced bionic principles currently available, and its theoretical heat dissipation efficiency has reached its limit..."
"That's theory."
Zhang Yan interrupted him.
He stood up, walked to the table, and casually picked up a red pen.
"If I'm not mistaken, the coolant you're using is glycol-based, right?"
Li Jianguo was taken aback: "Yes, what's wrong?"
"Ethylene glycol, under high flow rate and high pressure conditions, with a flow rate exceeding 3 meters per second, will produce a cavitation effect at this 90-degree right-angle bend."
Zhang Yan used his red pen to draw three large red crosses on the three bends of the drawing without any hesitation.
"Once bubbles are formed, the heat dissipation efficiency will drop by 40% instantly."
"With your power settings, the core module will melt due to localized overheating after fifteen minutes of operation."
"That is, what is commonly known as... a crash."
After Zhang Yan finished speaking, he threw the red pen on the table, put his hands in his pockets, and looked calmly at the male PhD student.
"If you don't believe me, you can run a set of simulation data right now."
"Set parameters: flow rate 3.5, ambient temperature 25, running time... let's set it to twenty minutes."
The male PhD student's face flushed red, and he gritted his teeth as he opened the laptop beside him: "Let them run! I refuse to believe that the data we've calculated together is less accurate than what you can see at a glance!"
The sound of keyboard typing echoed in the private room.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the computer screen.
The progress bar is moving slowly.
For the first ten minutes, everything was normal, and the temperature curve rose steadily.
The male PhD student sneered, about to speak in a sarcastic tone.
Sudden.
The temperature curve on the screen suddenly spiked vertically by 90 degrees without warning!
Red alert boxes popped up frantically, filling the entire screen.
[WARNING! Temperature in the core area has exceeded the critical threshold!]
[WARNING! System has been compromised!]
Simulation failed.
The runtime was 14 minutes and 32 seconds.
It didn't even last fifteen minutes.
"This...how is this possible..."
The male PhD student slumped in his chair, his face deathly pale, cold sweat streaming down his face.
The female PhD student covered her mouth, her eyes filled with terror.
Their supposedly brilliant solution actually has such a fatal flaw!
This flaw was spotted at a glance by a freshman, just like looking at an elementary school math problem.
Li Jianguo swayed and barely managed to stand by holding onto the table.
The way he looked at Zhang Yan had completely changed.
It was no longer about looking at a junior, but about looking at a monster, an unfathomable demon.
"Amazing... Absolutely amazing..."
Yan Zhenghua slapped his thigh, grinning from ear to ear, "Old Li, how about it? Is the reinforcement I brought you good enough?"
Li Jianguo took a deep breath, pushed aside the annoying male PhD student, pulled out a chair himself, and gestured for Zhang Yan to enter.
His attitude was as respectful as if he were treating an academic giant of the same level.
"Zhang... Zhang, please have a seat."
"I misjudged you just now, please don't take it to heart."
Li Jianguo rubbed his hands together, looking at Zhang Yan with hopeful eyes, "Since you can see the problem, then... is there a solution?"
This is the key.
Identifying a problem is easy; solving it is difficult.
Especially the core structure, where a change in one part affects the whole.
Zhang Yan did not answer immediately.
He sat back in his chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the table, his mind quickly recalling the battery plan he had helped Nie Qingcheng revise last night.
The underlying principles are the same.
However, this "Blue Flame" project has a larger power output and higher requirements for structural strength.
"have."
Zhang Yan nodded, took out a notebook from his bag that he had originally intended to use for taking notes, and tore off a page.
"Change the right-angle bend to a double-helix flow channel to increase turbulence and disrupt the boundary layer."
As he spoke, he quickly sketched on the paper.
"In addition, 0.5% of nano-graphene is added to the coolant to improve the thermal conductivity."
"At this location, add an adaptive throttle valve to balance the pressure difference..."
As his pen moved across the paper, a brand-new, bold, and even somewhat subversive heat dissipation structure emerged.
Li Jianguo and Yan Zhenghua huddled together, their heads growing increasingly alarmed and excited as they looked at each other.
This is hardly a repair solution.
This is simply a case of being outmatched!
This design not only perfectly solves the overheating problem, but also reduces the overall size of the system by one-third!
"Genius... an absolutely brilliant idea!"
Li Jianguo was so excited that his hands were trembling. He grabbed Zhang Yan's hand tightly, as if he was afraid that Zhang Yan would run away.
"Student Zhang! No, Teacher Zhang!"
"You absolutely must participate in this project!"
"I'll apply for a specially appointed expert position for you! If this project succeeds, you're guaranteed a National Science and Technology Progress Award!"
The two doctoral students next to him were completely numb.
Specially appointed expert?
A freshman?
If this gets out, the entire academic community will be shaken.
Zhang Yan withdrew his hand without making a sound.
He is not interested in any awards or titles.
What he cared about was the commercial value behind the project and what it could bring to Nie Qingcheng.
"Academician Li, you can participate in the project."
Zhang Yan pushed the completed sketch over, saying casually, "But I usually have a lot of classes, so I probably can't come to the lab every day."
"No problem! Absolutely no problem!" Li Jianguo now looked at Zhang Yan like he was a precious gem. "You can come whenever you want! If you don't want to come, that's fine too, we'll send you the data!"
"There's something else."
Zhang Yan's lips curled into a barely perceptible smile. "The manufacturing process of this heat dissipation system is quite special, especially the double helix flow channel, which ordinary factories cannot produce."
Li Jianguo was taken aback, then frowned again: "That is indeed a problem. Although there are many precision machining plants in China, few can achieve this level of micron-level precision..."
"I do know one."
Zhang Yan spoke up at the opportune moment, his tone as natural as if he were recommending a good restaurant.
"Qingcheng Group has a high-end manufacturing center that has just introduced several top-of-the-line five-axis CNC machine tools, so it should be able to do it."
"Qingcheng Group?"
Li Jianguo thought for a moment, "Oh, is that the company of that girl Nie Qingcheng? I heard they've been working on new energy recently, and their technical capabilities are quite good."
"Since Zhang recommended it, let's let them give it a try!"
Li Jianguo waved his hand and made the decision immediately, "I'll have someone contact them right away. As long as they can produce it, this supporting order will go to them!"
It became.
Zhang Yan chuckled inwardly.
This move not only helped Professor Yan save face and solved Academician Li's problem, but also conveniently secured a national-level mega-deal for his own wife.
This is probably what it feels like to be a kept man.
Just as the atmosphere in the private room was lively, and Li Jianguo wished he could become sworn brothers with Zhang Yan on the spot.
The female PhD student who had been staring at the sketch suddenly raised her hand timidly.
"Um... teacher, and Zhang student too..."
"This design is perfect, but..."
She pointed to a key connecting component marked on the sketch, her voice trembling slightly.
"This high-pressure sealing ring is required to maintain absolute elastic deformation at a high temperature of 300 degrees Celsius, and it must also be corrosion resistant."
"It seems there's no such material on the market right now."
The laughter in the private room stopped abruptly.
The smile on Li Jianguo's face froze.
I was so focused on the ingenious structure that I forgot about the material limitations.
Make bricks without straw.
No matter how good the design is, if you don't have the materials to make it, it's just a piece of waste paper.
"This is troublesome..." Li Jianguo plopped back into his chair, grabbing his already thinning hair. "This special alloy was previously only produced by one company in R country, but last month they suddenly imposed a technology blockade on us and cut off the supply."
"If we were to develop new materials, it would take at least two or three years..."
The atmosphere instantly plummeted.
Everyone's eyes dimmed.
Only Zhang Yan.
He leaned back in his chair, twirling the red pen in his hand, when suddenly that familiar mechanical voice echoed in his mind.
[Ding! Host is facing a research dilemma, triggering a random event!]
Option 1: Stand by and do nothing. Reward: 100 RMB cash.
Option Two: Provide the material recipe. Reward: God-level Materials Science Mastery (3-hour trial card).
Option 3: Hand-rub on-site. Reward: ???
Zhang Yan raised an eyebrow.
Hand-made on site?
System, do you have some misunderstanding about the term "hand-rubbed"? This is a special alloy.
but……
He glanced at Li Jianguo, who looked gloomy, and then thought of Nie Qingcheng's other project that had been put on hold due to a shortage of materials.
Zhang Yan stood up, took the sketch back, and drew a heavy circle around the sealing ring.
"Who says it has to be an alloy used in R country?"
Everyone looked up at him.
Zhang Yan fiddled with the mineral water bottle cap in his hand, the cheap blue plastic cap spinning rapidly between his fingertips.
"There is a type of polymer composite material that can withstand temperatures up to 400 degrees Celsius, has ten times the elasticity of rubber, and costs only one-tenth of that of alloys."
Looking into Li Jianguo's eyes, which had regained their hope, he casually dropped a bombshell.
"Moreover, the formula is in my head."
"Give me a chemistry lab, and I can do it right now..."
"Cook it."