My guess is physics also plays a role in selecting number of boilers. The larger a boiler the thicker the wall thickness need be, unless you make a very long one. If a steam pressure of 3.5 ksi (on the high side) is assumed, you'd need ~2.5" wall thickness for steel with 400 MPa yield strength at temperature. It gets really thick for 3 meter diamter. So you cannot just arbitrary decide you only want 2, 4 or 8 boilers.
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
- Thread starter Jeff Head
- Start date
by78
General
It is you who don't understand how steam turbine works or what internal combustion engines are.
Steam turbines are by definition external combustion engines.
Last edited:
It seems like the Fujian will be going out again.
That fast? I thought we're going to wait for at least a month or so before her 2nd sea trial.
Last edited:
Probably just a short sail to test the adjustments/calibration to onboard systems after the last sea trial.
Aircraft carriers are military equipment with special strategic significance. Everybody know what it means when they see a CSG on the sea or on the media. It is inevitable to put CV18 into service as soon as possible and demonstrate its combat capabilities while taking into account current complex international environment. I would not be surprised even if the sea trial period is quitely short or there are any other key scenes published officially in the following sea trials.