Chapter 181 The Cause of Boiler Explosion (Addition 4)

   "Among the four boilers, three boilers are off, and only the No. 4 boiler has a furnace oil head that is still burning." Volkov reported to Nicholas with black lines all over his face.

   "Is there any problem with this? Isn't it always like this when we are on standby?" Nicholas looked gloomy, but he was also puzzled.

  The warships with steam turbines started very slowly, and the boilers burned for several hours. When the Beiyang navy was attacked by devils, it was too late to light the fire, and they were all killed in the port.

  So, if the warship wants to be dispatched at any time, it is necessary to ensure that the flame is burning in the boiler at all times, and it does not need to be too large, as long as the steam pressure is maintained.

"However, the ventilation devices of several other furnaces have also been turned off." Volkov said: "Those damned engineers, when they heard that they were drinking, they ignored everything and did not follow the correct flameout operation. .They should all be court-martialed!"

  What's inside the hearth? When coal was burned in the past, it was directly filled with coal, but now when heavy oil is burned, of course there are heavy oil nozzles in the furnace, just like the fuel injectors of diesel engines, which spray oil for combustion. These nozzles are also called oil heads.

This thing will not be completely sealed. Even if all the flames are turned off, some oil mist will slowly spread out. Heavy oil is still better, with poor fluidity and slow diffusion speed. Just faster.

  So, if the boiler is re-ignited in a cold state, the ventilation device will be activated to **** out the oil and gas inside the furnace. If it starts up, the boiler will explode.

  Even if it is started, there will be insufficient time to start it, and it will ignite and explode in the end. This kind of danger still exists even in the 21st century. An ultra-large container ship named MANHATTANBRIDGE under the island country Kawasaki Kisen, when it was berthed at the port of Felixstowe in the United Kingdom, because of this reason, the boiler exploded, killing one and injuring the other.

  However, later generations used solenoid valves. The reason for the accident was the failure of the solenoid valve. Now, Lao Maozi still uses a simple mechanical handle. If the push is not in place, it is easy to find out afterwards.

  The oil and gas inside the furnaces of the three boilers slowly diffused and gathered in the engine room. Then, when they met the last burning oil head in the furnace, they were ignited by the flames. Just like that, the boilers exploded!

   It was entirely due to an operational error!

At this time, Nicholas and others were standing on the helicopter platform of the Resolute, and they could clearly see the 130mm naval gun crooked, and a big hole was opened in the brick-red deck. Although the warship did not sink, it would cost a huge sum of money to repair it.

what to do?

  Those engineers are definitely going to court-martial, but Nikolay might also be held responsible because he was also on the scene.

  Nicolai's eyeballs were spinning rapidly.

"The fire is finally extinguished, but luckily it didn't cause a major accident." At this moment, Qin Tao ran over with a dark face, and his body also smelled of smoke. Just when he found the fire, Qin Tao I also followed the fire together, very brave.

"Qin, my friend, I'm afraid we will be in trouble." Nicholas said to Qin Tao: "Because the engineer was in a hurry to drink, he didn't turn off the boiler completely, and the boiler exploded. The wine is yours. I The experience will excuse you, but you probably need to stay for a while to cooperate with the investigation."

   Nicholas was afraid that he would not be able to handle such a big event. Now, his tone was very helpless. Qin Tao had good intentions, but he did bad things with good intentions.

"Nicolas, my friend, there seems to be something wrong with the investigation of the accident?" Qin Tao said: "When I was fighting the fire just now, I also heard from them that the cause of the explosion was the impact. , Our warship collided with an American warship, which caused the scale on the inner wall of a pipe inside the boiler to fall, blocked the steam pipe, and finally caused an explosion. The responsibility for this accident should be borne entirely by the Americans!"

  This Nicholas usually looks very smart, and he will also enrich his own pockets to make benefits for himself, but why is he not good at throwing blame at all?

   At this moment, when he heard Qin Tao say this, Nicholas's eyes lit up, yes, why didn't he think that it was because of the collision during the day?

  They bravely rammed the US warship, drove away the Americans, and safeguarded the sovereignty of their own country, so they are glorious!

  Because of the impact, the boiler had an accident. At best, they were just negligent, but they absolutely cannot bear the main responsibility. The Americans are all to blame!

   In this way, Qin Tao is not responsible, neither is Nicholas, nor are the sailors on the warship. No one can prevent accidents.

  Nicolas looked dissatisfiedly at Volkov beside him: "Volkov, as the captain of the Steadfast, you can't even find out the cause of the accident accurately, you are too stupid!"

  Volkov nodded quickly: "Yes, Your Excellency Nikolai, it's all my fault. I shouldn't listen to the accident analysts of our fleet base fire brigade."

  The cause of the accident was analyzed by the fire brigade at the base, and they controlled the accident scene. It is not difficult to change the cause of the accident now.

   "Tell them the real cause of the accident, and don't let them talk nonsense." Nicholas said.

   "Yes, yes." Volkov hurried to find someone.

"Qin, you are really amazing." Nicholas glanced at Qin Tao with satisfaction, and then said, "You have worked hard today, you have to go back and take a shower, and then have a good rest. On behalf of the fleet, thank you Selfless help."

Qin Tao smiled: "Your Excellency Nicholas, we are friends, and of course we need to help each other. However, this warship should have lost the value of maintenance after it has become like this. In my opinion, it is better to go through the scrapping process. We It’s been a long time since we’ve dismantled a hulk, if you need it, we can dismantle this warship into scrap iron.”

   Ship breaking?

  No maintenance value?

  Nicolas knew Qin Tao's hidden meaning. Although they have unified the caliber and said that it was an accident with a US warship collision, this matter still has risks.

  If someone comes to investigate, maybe they can find out the truth. The best way is to dispose of this warship as soon as possible.

  Since it has been blown up, let's re-evaluate it. The internal operation of their Pacific Fleet is fine. After the evaluation, if there is no maintenance value, then it will be scrapped.

  Since it is scrapped, it is logical to sell it to a ship breaking yard. If the domestic ship breaking yard is too busy, it can be sold to a foreign ship breaking yard.

  Nicolas cannot be sold privately, but it is also possible to go through normal procedures.

Nicholas nodded: "Qin, you are right, we should scrap this warship. However, this process is estimated to take several months, and you can buy scrap iron after Moscow agrees. "

   "Then I'll wait, Nicholas, my friend, I'm going back, my wife is probably very worried about me." Qin Tao said.

  Looking at the back of Qin Tao leaving, Nicholas called the people around him.

   "Zaytsev, did Qin go into the engine room when he visited the warship?" Nikolai asked.

   It is true to say that Nicholas didn't think about how to deal with his superiors, but it would be a big mistake to think that Nicholas is easy to fool because of this.

At this time, Zaitsev shook his head when he heard what Nikolai said: "No, he never went in. When we were inspecting the warship, Qin walked around and wandered in front first, telling everyone to wait to get off the ship and drink. When we arrived at the engine room, we just shouted at the door, and all the sailors in the engine room came out, but Qin didn't go in."

  Nicolas nodded: "He didn't touch anything?"

   "Yes, Qin just watched."

  Nicolas nodded. It seemed that he was thinking too much. If Qin destroyed the warship, then Qin would simply die, and there was no need for Qin to do so.

  Nicolas shook his head, driving all doubts out of his mind.

   This warship can be decommissioned, but it is not easy to sell the warship to Qin, so Qin is not the one who can benefit!

Nicholas looked at the guest house in the distance: "Tomorrow, send Qin away. He is a good man and cannot be involved in this matter. Qin's celebration of our sailors is just to please me, and I can't Let him be affected."

   Ah Choo!

  As soon as he entered the room, Qin Tao sneezed.

  Zhao Ling rushed up to meet Qin Tao, looking at Qin Tao's distressed appearance, she was very worried: "Brother Tao, how are you doing? There is an accident at the port, and it is inconvenient for me to run out. I am about to die of anxiety."

  Qin Tao shook his head: "It's okay, the boiler of that ship Steadfast exploded, I followed to help put out the fire, fortunately no one was hurt."

   Steadfast, the boiler exploded?

  Zhao Ling looked at Qin Tao seriously: "Brother Tao, this matter..."

   "My body is so dirty, I need to take a bath, Xiaoling, do you want to take a bath with me?"

  Zhao Ling's face was flushed, even if she and Qin Tao were already together, it was still too embarrassing to take a bath together, but Qin Tao seemed to have other meanings when he said it this way.

   "Do you really want me to come?"

   "Of course, after I go back, there will be no such opportunity. I specially asked for a room with a double bathtub. Besides, you have to rub my back."

"good."

Zhao Ling blushed, and walked into the bathroom with Qin Tao. Amidst the sound of rushing water, Qin Tao hugged his fiancée from behind, and said in her ear: "Xiaoling, I will It's hard work, you have to take good care of me."

  Have a hard time tonight? Zhao Ling came to her senses, this incident was too coincidental, there must be Tao brother's push, he is really too powerful!

Huh? Wait, are you here? That's too shameful, right?

  Zhao Ling felt...

  Qin Tao also felt that he was very lucky.

  Originally, I just planned to take a look at the Ka-29, at most the test-fired S-300 missiles promised by Nikolai, and get a few back. However, he absolutely did not expect that the Americans would happen to come to make trouble.

  So, on the helicopter, Qin Tao talked about the South Chiba Islands, and the old man didn't want to listen to this, and he got angry when he heard it, so Nicholas ordered the collision.

  After boarding the warship, Qin Tao wandered around, saying everywhere that he invited the old man to drink. When he finally arrived in the engine room, the ship just docked, and the timing was very accurate.

  Finally, it depends on the reaction of the old man. Fortunately, the old man who is addicted to alcohol, after hearing that he is going to drink, he really doesn't care about anything. A simple omission will cause serious and terrible consequences.

   Not to mention the small modern boilers, even the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in Ukraine was caused by a layman coal power engineer who was in charge and ordered an emergency shutdown simply and brutally.

  Lao Maozi has this kind of character.

   Now, the Steadfast has successfully blew up the boiler, and Qin Tao's only dishonesty in it is that he saw that the other party didn't turn off the boiler completely, and didn't remind him.

  However, Qin Tao is not the father of those engineers, why should he remind them?

  Qin Tao is a bright and positive image, and he went to fight the fire with him. If Nicholas doubts him, he is not enough friends.

  Now, Qin Tao is only waiting for the last thing.

   "Brother Tao, can we take the Steadfast back for scrap metal?"

  Under such circumstances, Zhao Ling could still be distracted from asking such questions. Qin Tao had a smile on his face: "Xiao Ling, it seems that the storm should be more violent."

Can?

   This is indeed a problem. After the old Maozi's cutting-edge warships are decommissioned after accidents, they are usually thrown into a certain port to bask in the sun and wind. There has never been a situation where they can't wait to sell scrap iron.

  However, in a few months, everything will change drastically, and by then, who will care about a scrapped warship? Sell ​​it and sell it, and save the burden.

  Therefore, Qin Tao has great confidence in dragging back the warship that blew up its boiler. However, it cannot be repaired and used by its own navy. After all, there are still some things that should be taboo.

  Although the warship must be disassembled, the good things inside...

Qin Tao believed that things depended on human effort. At that time, it would not be a problem for him to ask his good friend Nikolai to give him something, or go directly to the warehouse to find something. What about these obsolete things?

  Qin Tao is full of confidence.

Nikolai was very busy that night. After all, one of the main Type 956 destroyers had a boiler explosion and had to be scrapped. Therefore, he had to make a passable accident statement, and many people had to keep their mouths shut until the next day. At that time, Nikolai didn't have time to see his old friend off. Zaitsev drove Qin Tao to the border of the Fin River, and then watched Qin Tao return home.

   Qin Tao has walked this road many times. Now Qin Tao has a big business, and he directly sends it to Lao Maozi's military port by boat. Watching the small fights here is also very interesting.

   Zhao Ling beside her is very docile. The rain and dew last night made Zhao Ling even more charming.

   "Brother Tao, where should we go first?" Zhao Ling asked.

   "Let's go back to the capital first, Mr. Wu and the others should be back, and they have to report to the old man."

   PS: Today is six more, twenty-four thousand, I hope you enjoy watching it. Also, in the future, it is planned to have a chapter of 6,000 words, with three changes and two changes.

  

  

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