Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 101: Upgrade generator
Shallow geothermal energy is different from deep geothermal energy. Although both belong to geothermal energy, the use of shallow geothermal energy is much simpler than deep geothermal energy.
The use of deep geothermal energy requires deep drilling, which is difficult to mine, and it is relatively difficult to effectively use it.
However, the utilization of shallow geothermal energy is not so complicated. It only needs to bury the pipeline in the shallow surface, inject the circulating working fluid into the pipeline, and connect the heat pump unit, so that the circulating working fluid can continuously absorb geothermal heat and release it. The process of thermal energy can effectively utilize the shallow geothermal energy.
The principle is actually the same as that of air conditioners and refrigerators. They all use circulating working fluid to evaporate and absorb heat, then compress and condense to release heat.
is only different from air conditioners and refrigerators in that the ground source heat pump that uses shallow ground temperature energy absorbs heat from the ground, and releases heat indoors.
In fact, this system can be used not only for heating, but also for cooling, but in the current environment, cooling is completely useless.
Compared with other heating methods, the advantage of ground source heat pump technology is that it consumes less energy. Although it consumes the same electricity, it only needs to supply the electricity required for the compressor to work, and it does not need to consume additional electricity. to heat.
After all, whether it is a boiler or electric heating, it essentially consumes energy to convert heat. Even air-conditioning heating uses electric auxiliary heating, which requires a large amount of electric energy.
But the ground source heat pump technology is different. Its heat comes from the stratum itself. The ground source heat pump unit is only used to compress and condense the circulating working fluid and release heat. There is no additional energy consumption.
So relatively speaking, the ground source heat pump does save a lot of energy.
Looking at the introduction on the information and the related principle explanation, Chen Xin moved the idea of putting such a system on his refuge.
On the whole, it is not complicated to make such a set of things. All he needs are pipes, compressors, condensers, evaporators and expansion valves, and these things can be removed by removing an air conditioner.
and installation is not troublesome. Since a simple rack can be used as an algae oxygen generator by default, then bury the pipe in the soil of the planting greenhouse, and then install other equipment to let it dissipate heat to the planting greenhouse , it should also be regarded as a ground source heat pump system by default, right?
Although this still aggravated Chen Xin's power consumption and made his already overwhelmed power system even worse, as a necessary consumption for heating, Chen Xin could only accept this fact and chose to upgrade the generator. , while increasing fuel consumption and increasing total power generation.
"Simple fossil fuel internal combustion generator"
"Upgrade plan 1: Improve generator efficiency, fuel efficiency +5%, improve motor material, power generation +5%, energy consumption -5%, upgrade requires 1,700 survival points"
"Upgrade plan two: increase generator output power, fuel consumption +75%, power generation +90%, energy consumption -5%, upgrade requires 2000 survival points"
This is already an upgrade that consumes very high survival points. In addition to upgrading a room as a whole, Chen Xin is the first time to upgrade a single device with more than 1,000 points.
Fortunately, in addition to Chen Xin’s backup generator, all kinds of metal materials are needed. With Chen Xin providing a large amount of steel as a substitute, he still survives by one-tenth. Point consumption completes the upgrade.
After the upgrade, the generators have become larger, and the two generators have become one. In addition to the increase in fuel consumption, the power generation is naturally also greatly increased.
But overall, the energy consumption is still reduced, because Chen Xin can now use 1.75 times the original fuel to obtain 1.9 times the electricity, and overall consumption is still reduced.
And after the upgrade, the power generation efficiency has been improved, and the total power consumption has not changed, which means that the change of direction reduces the fuel consumption.
In terms of Chen Xin's current fuel consumption, his inventory and the gasoline that he can exchange from the SWAT team every month can still be maintained to meet his own consumption.
Of course, this does not include the upcoming increase in heating consumption.
is also embarrassed for heating Chen Xin. Electric heating is the least efficient way, but it is the easiest and fastest way. Chen Xin only needs to plug in his electric heater.
As for burning boilers, it is not impossible. Boiler water heating is an ancient and mature technology, which is relatively safe and stable. The carbon dioxide produced by combustion can also be supplied to the oxygen generator for oxygen recovery. It can be said that it is A pretty good choice.
The only thing that restricts Chen Xin from adopting this heating method is the acquisition of fuel.
To use this method for heating, Chen Xin may have to add coal to his monthly deal with the SWAT team.
The exchange of coal is not a problem for Chen Xin. Coal is not gasoline after all, and the coal output of Yan Kingdom is quite high.
Just in this way, the painting style of Chen Xin's Refuge will inevitably be closer to the style of steampunk~IndoMTL.com~ Although he personally likes steampunk style art, this does not mean that he wants to Living in that environment, because steampunk also means soot pollution.
Of course, in this apocalyptic environment, no one will investigate whether your PM2.5 exceeds the standard. The PM2.5 in the entire atmosphere has already exploded.
So of course you can do it, but how to do it is a big problem.
When Chen Xin was a child, he had seen that kind of charcoal stove in his hometown. This kind of thing is still widely used in the rural areas of Yan Kingdom.
If using briquettes for heating, Chen Xin felt that this should be an acceptable and effective choice.
In addition, the ground source heat pump system that I saw before using shallow ground temperature for heating is actually a very good heating method, and even this system will not increase additional energy consumption, which is very important for the current energy acquisition. For Chen Xin, who has problems, it is simply a suitable way of heating.
Ground source heat pump technology has actually been used in Bluestar for a long time. It was first proposed in 1912, but at that time energy access was relatively cheap, and at that time it was limited by technology and did not have large-scale applications.
However, after entering the new century, the energy problem of human beings has become increasingly tense, and clean, efficient and recyclable new energy has gradually become the focus of people's attention. The development and utilization of shallow geothermal energy by ground source heat pump technology, Naturally, it has obtained considerable development and popularization and application.
In the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region of Yan Country, this technology has been applied to heating the local people, but the technology is not very mature. Although it has some applications, it is still limited to simple heating.
However, the advantage of this technology is that its heating efficiency is quite high.