The Rise of the European Emperor

Historically, the development of the human petroleum industry originated from the refining of kerosene. However, this does not mean that Marin invented the kerosene lamp and mastered the oil refining technology, which will make the oil industry of Beihai country take off rapidly.

The main reason is that there is no technical support from the whole society. After all, in 1859, when the modern petroleum industry originated, human steam engine technology had already matured, and too many mechanical experts emerged. Therefore, after the oil is extracted, it can be put into application soon. In addition, the technology of exploring and extracting oil can also be developed rapidly.

But in this era, I am afraid that only Marin, a traveler, knows what the oil industry is. Even Leonardo Da Vinci, who is the smartest in the world, knows nothing about the oil industry.

In particular, oil exploration and drilling technology is difficult to achieve great development due to technical limitations. Even if Marin develops the technology of rotary drilling, he can only drill shallow oil wells with a depth of 100 meters. Most of the large oil fields in later generations could not develop this technology. The oil wells that can be developed are those places where limited oil seedlings are exposed to the surface, such as Titusville, such as Galicia, such as Baku, such as the sulfur pit, such as Yanchang...

However, the output of this kind of shallow well is not high, which cannot meet the huge demand of kerosene lamps. Therefore, in the early days, the application of kerosene lamps was not very wide. Of course, until the North Sea country has trained several generations of mechanical engineers and the technology has gradually matured, deeper oil wells can be drilled and more oil can be obtained.

In fact, based on Marin's memory, the 12-hp Changchai walking tractor bought by Ma's family in the previous life can also be copied by a craftsman. After all, vulcanized rubber is already available now, as long as it takes a little time and the craftsmen go all out, the single-cylinder diesel engine can still be reproduced. At most, it is because of the rough technology that the machine often has problems, just like the current imitation Watt steam engine.

But the biggest problem is not here, mainly diesel supply. With the daily output of only one barrel of oil in the Galician oil field, the diesel oil extracted can at most supply a walking tractor for a day. This is still based on the highest diesel refining ratio of 30%. But with Marin's workshop-level technology, it's not bad to be able to extract 20%.

Even if one tire of walking tractor is only driven for 8 hours a day, it can supply two or three tractors at most. So what does this change? The supply capacity of two or three single-cylinder diesel engines... well, it is still useful, at least, it can accumulate technology...

So, Marin began to organize a large number of craftsmen, and began to copy the 12-horse walking tractor that often went wrong in their previous life...

Why does Marin still insist on making 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engines when there is an extreme shortage of diesel? Not for wide application, but for its RPM!

Yes, no matter how bad a single-cylinder diesel engine is, its speed is much stronger than that of a steam engine. The current Beihai Watt steam engine only rotates at more than 50 revolutions per minute. This speed is not much different from a hand-cranked machine. The single-cylinder diesel engine is different. Marin remembers that the Changchai in his previous life had 12 horses, and the speed was as high as 500~800 revolutions per minute!

This speed, in large-scale industrial production, may have little application value due to lack of oil. However, if it is used to drill the barrel of a gun...

Yes, Marin just thought of drilling the barrel. For rotary drills, the faster the speed, the stronger the penetration. If adopt the single-cylinder diesel engine that rotating speed is more than ten times faster than current watt steam engine, the efficiency of drilling gun tube will be greatly improved. Even, it can also be considered for drilling gun barrels...

Not too many, as long as there are a few single-cylinder diesel engines used to drill the barrel, it is basically enough. After all, the size of the army of the Beihai State is just that, and the demand for gun barrels is not high, and tens of thousands of gun barrels are enough. Unlike later generations, some of the rifles that have been installed are often in the tens of millions, and the number of AK47s even exceeds 200 million...

In addition, the single-cylinder diesel engine is also very good for drilling wells. In the previous life, the well drilling machine in the country used a steel frame with a small diesel engine on it to drive the rotating drill bit down.

I have never seen Marin's authentic oil drilling machinery, but I have seen this kind of drilling machine used in the countryside. Although this drilling rig can only drill tens of meters deep, it was sufficient for drilling shallow oil wells in the early days. Most importantly, its efficiency is much faster than the popular traditional drilling technology. Marin remembered that it was no problem to drill two irrigation wells a day with the well-drilling machine commonly used in the countryside in the previous life. However, if the ancient gravity drilling technology is used, according to Zhuotongjing's technology, it is estimated that it will take six to seventy days to drill a 100-meter-deep salt well... This efficiency is incomparable...

Of course, all of this is ideal. But the reality is...

Marin managed to direct the craftsmen to imitate the 12-horsepower Changchai single-cylinder diesel engine. As a result, during the trial run, there was a problem with the bayonet design of the crank handle (Marin didn’t pay attention to this small detail in his memory), and the crank handle didn’t work. It was able to be taken off in time, and then, when the diesel engine was turned on, the iron crank handle flew out, directly smashing to death a nearby craftsman...

The next day, during the test run, the huge flywheel of the diesel engine flew out because the riveting was not strong...

Fortunately, everyone was mentally prepared this time, and bunkers were added, so there were no casualties.

In addition, the first generation of vulcanized rubber transmission belts made by Marin seem to be unstable in quality and not very good in wear resistance. No, it suddenly broke after two days of operation... Fortunately, Marin has sisal fiber as a backup. After switching to a transmission belt woven with sisal fiber, it really works better...

Seeing these unpredictable situations, Marin was also terrified. It seems that the backwardness of the overall mechanical technology foundation of the society has caused many problems that Marin has never seen in his previous life after the machine is manufactured. Moreover, they were all low-level problems that Marin could not think of.

For the sake of safety, Marin still left these problems to the craftsmen to deal with. Moreover, this processing process is also a process of increasing technology.

But in order to prevent any accidental death, Marin asked those craftsmen not only to place bunkers when testing the single-cylinder diesel engine, but also to wear a full set of plate armor as protective clothing for those craftsmen who were close to them, so as not to be accidentally killed by the machine...

In fact, Marin didn't know that when the later Xinhua Kingdom was first established, the machinery industry was developed in various places. Even with the guidance of Maozi experts, there are still many immediate accidents. In every machine accident, someone may be injured or even killed. Over the past few decades, I don’t know how many workers in machinery factories have broken their fingers or their entire hands, and some of them have been killed by machinery...

No way, the country was newly created at that time, and the foundation of the machinery industry was equivalent to no, and it was not much better than Marin now. The only thing that is better than Marin's current situation is that there are mature foreign theoretical guidance and many advanced foreign prototypes as reference. Even so, there are still many workers in New China who have had many accidents due to machine problems or improper operation, causing many casualties. Marin read a report in later generations, saying that in Wuhan alone, the number of casualties in industrial accidents reached 50,000 to several thousand in a few decades. Among them, the highest proportion is the limb disability (mainly hand)...

In our later generations, many people admire those eighth-level mechanics who were superbly skilled decades ago. What they don't know is that these eighth-level workers are the lucky ones who survived the casualties again and again. The unfortunate people basically lie in the cemetery. And those eighth-level workers gradually grew into the mainstay of the country's industrial construction after summarizing the experience and lessons of those workers who died. And this is the price of exploring and developing the machinery industry...