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#184 - The first thermal power station

Haojia Ping.

Today marks a major event: the completion and imminent launch of the nation's first 6MW thermal power plant.

In the original timeline, it wasn't until 1954 that the Shanghai began manufacturing its first domestically produced, imitation 6,000-kilowatt unit, eventually installed at the Huainan Tianjia'an Power Plant.

While the Haojia Ping Thermal Power Plant, overseen by Ren Zhong, utilizes some core equipment from the 'Rogue Eagle' (America) and its overall process design also originates from there, the vast majority of production has been localized.

The quality remains to be seen; we'll know once it's up and running.

"Mr. Ren, our first thermal power plant is launching today! This is the highest-capacity thermal power plant in the country. Do you have anything to say?" Li Jixiang, the chief engineer of the thermal power plant construction, said excitedly.

He genuinely hadn't expected to complete the construction of his first thermal power plant so soon in his life.

Although the majority of the data for this thermal power plant came from ready-made designs provided by the 'Rogue Eagle'.

However, in terms of manufacturing most of the equipment, the Dawn Research Institute took on the responsibility of design confirmation and manufacturing.

In other words, the Dawn Research Institute now has the strength to independently complete the construction of the next thermal power plant.

This is a groundbreaking event in the field of thermal power in China.

According to traditional saying, he, Li Jixiang, would be the founding father of thermal power.

"Professor Li, I don't have much to say. It's all thanks to the comrades. I just did some talking and running around. I didn't do much technical work. Professor Li, as the chief engineer, you should preside over this ceremony," Ren Zhong said with a smile, handing over the stage to Professor Li Jixiang, who had worked hard for several months, to enjoy the glory.

His perspective was inherently different from this world.

In his main world, coal-fired power plants below 300,000 kilowatts were already being phased out. A 6MW (6,000 kilowatt) unit was unheard of. So, Ren Zhong really didn't feel much, let alone the excitement of being at the forefront of the times.

To ask him to passionately praise this small unit, even in front of hundreds of excited people, Ren Zhong couldn't muster the enthusiasm. His mind was filled with million-kilowatt units that didn't even rank high. Praising a 6,000-kilowatt unit was just too awkward.

Better to leave it to Professor Li.

Unthinkable, truly unthinkable.

Professor Li stood on the stage, addressing hundreds of builders, eloquently starting from the history of thermal power development in China, introducing the significance and breakthroughs of the Haojia Ping Thermal Power Plant.

Ren Zhong stood aside, quietly waiting for Professor Li to vent his excitement, before pressing the symbolic start button amidst the cheers of the crowd, indicating the official ignition!

The staff members took their positions amidst the cheers, truly igniting the boiler.

The startup of a thermal power plant is very long, and the startup of a new unit is even more troublesome. As time passed minute by minute, after several hours, the boiler boiled and began to send out high-temperature steam, driving the turbine to rotate.

The lights of the thermal power plant suddenly lit up!

Power generation!

The crowd cheered again. This was the true start of successful power transmission for the entire system!

As the power generation of the thermal power plant increased, Ren Zhong directed the units on the hydropower side to begin shutting down.

Currently, the load of the Dawn Research Institute has not reached 1MW. The thermal power plant, with a little effort, can support the entire load of the Dawn Research Institute.

Fortunately, a electric furnace steelmaking plant was also built nearby. As soon as the power was generated, the electric furnace in the steel plant also started up.

According to the plan, today's trial operation will bring the power to about 5MW. After 72 hours, it will continue to be pulled to achieve full-load power generation.

"How is the steel plant running?" Ren Zhong guarded the power plant, and after sending power, he asked on the walkie-talkie.

"The crushing system is normal, the feeding system is normal, and the electric furnace starts normally! In ten minutes, the electric furnace can be started with the maximum load heating!" Someone excitedly reported on the walkie-talkie.

The successful ignition at one time is naturally due to the hard work of sorting out the entire system and testing it in advance.

Before the entire system was ignited, each subsystem had passed the power-on test, and some obvious faults had been eliminated long ago. It was within Ren Zhong's expectation to achieve such results now.

Although everyone had been guarding from morning until noon, they didn't feel hungry and couldn't even bother to eat.

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This is a historic moment.

Many people want to participate in this great historical moment, and Polaroid took many photos of the people on the scene.

Although Ren Zhong himself did not take the installed capacity seriously, he still attached great importance to the significance of this thermal power plant. He took out two Polaroid cameras and recorded these histories in the thermal power plant and the steel plant respectively.

By the time the first furnace of molten steel came out and the combined operation of thermal power and steel smelting was successfully realized, it was already three or four in the afternoon!

Amid warm applause and ardent eyes, Ren Zhong stood in the center of the power plant workshop.

"Comrades, the successful ignition of the thermal power plant and the steel plant today is a small step for our Dawn Research Institute, but it is a big step in the history of thermal power and steelmaking in our border area and even in China. This means that we have broken through the core technology of the 6MW thermal power generator unit and can independently complete the construction of a thermal power plant. From today onwards, our country's thermal power no longer needs to rely on foreigners and can be built independently! Although it cannot be publicized in the current situation, I want to say that this is the pride of our Dawn Research Institute, the pride of the border area, and the pride of our entire nation!

Today, it is not only the thermal power plant that we have broken through the shackles of history. In terms of steel smelting, we have also created a new history. Using our own hands, we have built a brand-new steel plant from scratch. We have also mastered many core technologies of steel smelting, and it will surely become a new starting point in the history of our nation's steel development!

Let us applaud the achievements we have made! Cheer for the further development of our cause!

Finally, I want to say that today we will kill pigs and sheep and have a big meal to celebrate the achievements we have made! I hope that everyone will continue to work hard and overcome the technical difficulties of 10,000-kilowatt, 30,000-kilowatt, and even 300,000-kilowatt units as soon as possible! At the same time, we will also turn the steel plant into a super steel plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons, 1 million tons, or even 10 million tons!"

Ren Zhong's words completely ignited the scene. Everyone cheered and applauded as much as possible, regardless of the tears in their eyes and the redness of their palms!

Here, is where everyone works!

Here, new miracles will continue to be created!

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