Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

"Director Guo, at your age, shouldn't you be retiring soon? I don't blame you for your failing eyesight, but if you just open your eyes and look around, where in the world are there any warships that still run boilers? Wouldn't it be better for your Bingcheng Boiler Factory to just honestly build boilers for land-based power plants?"

Qin Chuan didn't hold back and immediately began to refute.

The atmosphere in the conference room instantly became tense.

"Hmph, Engineer Qin, I'm doing this for the sake of the bigger picture," Guo Xiangyang said. "Gas turbines are indeed the trend, but can you even build them? Your Laiyang Factory is just a steel plant, a private enterprise, and you've never been involved in the gas turbine industry before. You actually say you want to increase the power to 30 megawatts? I, Old Guo, don't believe it. You're just making things up!"

Snapped!

Qin Chuan slammed his hand on the table: "Director Guo, do you even know what the topic of today's meeting is?"

"Isn't this a demonstration of your factory's gas turbine project? What's wrong with that? Aren't I demonstrating it right now?"

"Hmph, Director Guo, don't you dare leave after the meeting!"

"What, is Lao Guo afraid of you?"

"Alright, stop arguing!" Wang Zhenhua, who was chairing the meeting, said, "What good will arguing do? Now, let Engineer Qin and his team introduce the gas turbine design!"

Raimov's feelings were incredibly complicated; his journey to promote gas turbines had been fraught with difficulties!

The Navy's change of heart, and the hostility of the boiler and turbine factories, all made everything uncertain...

Next, I must do my best!

Raimov took a deep breath, then took the transparent slide film he had rushed to finish the night before and walked up to the projector.

"Distinguished leaders, let me explain the concept behind this upgrade in detail. We know that the power output of marine gas turbines can continuously increase with technological advancements. For example, the American LM2500 gas turbine, when it was first produced, only had 250,000 horsepower, which quickly increased to 300,000 horsepower, and is now being developed towards 400,000 horsepower..."

Everyone got serious. The show was almost over. Now, let's see how the Russians increase the power of the gas turbine.

Raimov started with the same old approach: adding a zero-stage compressor to increase turbine temperature. After that, he moved on to the new plan.

"To further increase power, we will add an energy recovery device to the exhaust system..."

Although Qin Chuan said it was rounding, Raimov still didn't want to lie; this was the awareness of an old engineer.

However, there is still a way to increase it to 30 megawatts, and that is through combined combustion and steam!

The exhaust temperature of gas turbines is very high. In order to suppress infrared radiation, warships also need to install water cooling devices on their exhaust pipes, drawing in seawater to cool them down.

Now there's no need for cooling; we can simply use it to burn steam, which will then drive the turbine to do work, thus providing more output power!

On land, this would be perfectly acceptable, but on a warship... gas turbines are designed to simplify the engine compartment, and this design makes the engine compartment even more complicated!

However, the Navy never intended for such a high-output gas turbine; they would have been content with simply copying a 20-megawatt gas turbine. If they could increase it to over 25 megawatts, that would have been more than enough.

Therefore, all the leaders nodded in satisfaction.

Raimov breathed a sigh of relief and became more relaxed as he explained.

……

Half an hour later.

"Distinguished leaders, these are the current improvement measures. We are confident that we will be able to complete the development of the 30-megawatt gas turbine!"

"Hmm, that sounds feasible. How long do you plan to take to develop it?"

"A year or two."

"Yes, by then our Sovremenny-class destroyers will have just been delivered, and we'll have the right propulsion system to build the next batch. Okay, this plan is approved by our navy! Meeting adjourned!"

Meeting adjourned?

Raimov didn't react in time, so Qin Chuan quickly stood up: "Wait, leaders, wait!"

"What, is there anything else?"

"Now that the leaders have approved this plan, shouldn't we be able to allocate the funds?"

"What funds will be allocated?"

"Research and development funding!"

"You came to Yang Factory to do foreign trade business, right? You have plenty of money! Our navy is short of funds, so you can come up with the research and development expenses!"

"What a joke!"

Qin Chuan immediately objected. He walked a few steps to the door and lay down there.

"Distinguished leaders, it hasn't been easy for us to come to Yangchang! We invested in building the test stand to help the Navy build gas turbines, and now you're still stingy and miserly. I, Qin Chuan, won't stand for this! You must give us an explanation today, or you'll have to step over my dead end!"

Raimov also realized what was happening, and after a brief hesitation, he followed and lay down next to Qin Chuan.

"Everyone, we need an explanation today!"

It has to be Engineer Qin. He knows when to be shameless. If you don't use this method, you won't get the money at all!

"Engineer Qin, get up! Let's talk this out!"

"No, we won't get up until we get paid!"

"In that case, our navy will squeeze out 200,000 for you!"

"Two hundred thousand? The navy is just throwing money away like beggars! It should be at least two million, no, twenty million!"

"Someone is coming!"

……

At the entrance of the Yellow Building.

Qin Chuan gave a wry smile.

"Sigh, it's not easy for us private enterprises, no matter what we do. We had to throw away our pride and beg on the ground to get a million!" Qin Chuan looked at Raimov: "However, I, Qin Chuan, will remember the humiliation I suffered today!"

"Engineer Qin, I, Raimov, will always remember your contributions to our Dawn Bureau!" Raimov said. "However, one million is simply not enough!"

"How much would that be?"

"It'll cost at least thirty million!"

"Alright, Yang Factory will cover the rest of the money!" Qin Chuan said. "Even if we have to sell everything we own, I'll get the gas turbine developed. Next time, once we've successfully developed it, I'll have a serious talk with them about what happened today!"

"Okay, Engineer Qin, I'll head back to the Dawn Bureau now..."

"Okay, go back and tell them to come to our Laiyang factory as soon as possible. We'll set aside a special place for you to do your research."

"Engineer Qin, this... our Dawn Bureau is the best place for research and development!"

Do you have advanced computers?

Raimov shook his head.

Do you have an abundance of daily necessities?

Raimov shook his head.

Do you have research and development funding?

"Don't you have one?"

"Yes, but I can't possibly transfer the funds to your Dawn Bureau! If I really did, do you believe they would misappropriate them?"

Qin Chuan's single sentence left Raimov speechless.