African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 1040 Pump Station Revolution

 Province of Bohemia.

Kosha town, Kapolan city.

Kosha Town is a town in the western part of Bohemia Province. The climate is relatively arid, and the vegetation is mainly typical grassland and sandy land. Although there is less precipitation, the agricultural development situation is very good.

Over the past two decades, Kosha Town and surrounding towns have successively built a large number of water conservancy facilities in the area to divert water from the Zambezi River to irrigate the land. More than twenty years ago, this area was still a land of wild animals. In paradise, the natural landscape is no different from many parts of Africa.

Under the transformation of East Africa, large and small water canals are staggered and neatly arranged throughout the entire city of Kapolland, like a finely woven spider web, covering the earth, and the water of the Zambezi River and its tributaries is introduced into the fields through these ditches. Just like blood flowing in blood vessels.

At this time, the Kesha Town Government was receiving city government personnel responsible for spot inspections. Mayor Tal led the staff of the Water Conservancy Bureau to inspect the fifth branch canal.

Tal: “In order to successfully introduce river water into the fields, we built seven new pumping stations at water sources such as the Fifth Branch Canal, and continuously pumped out river water through water pumps. In the past, many of these pumping stations used steam engines as the main power. Now according to the city's documents, we are connecting these pump stations to the power lines."

The staff of the Water Conservancy Bureau looked at the small house standing beside the branch canal and said, "Mayor Tal, do you mind if we come in and take a look?"

Tal: "Of course there is no problem. When building these pumping stations, we did it under the guidance of professionals, fully complied with construction standards, and performed regular maintenance work."

Then, under Tal's instructions, the town government staff took the keys to the pumping station and opened the door.

The pumping station is built in a small house. These houses are all masonry structures and look relatively stable. They stand on the edge of the fifth branch canal. A relatively thick metal pipe extends from below the pumping station to the bottom of the fifth branch canal.

Beside the water channel, there are wooden telegraph poles. These poles were obviously built not long ago and are numbered. A small hole extending deep into the wall of the pumping station extends from the poles.

The door of the pumping station is made of wood and does not look too solid. However, except for the water pump, there is nothing valuable inside. Moreover, this large water pump is not easy to move and is fixed on a concrete base.

After entering the pumping station, investigators from the Water Conservancy Bureau observed the internal structure of the entire pumping station and the appearance of the water pump.

It can be seen that no corners were cut at this pumping station. The masonry walls are smooth and orderly, and the cement on the ground was also made in accordance with construction standards. If corners were cut, the clues can be seen at a glance.

The body of the water pump is also very clean and tidy. Although there is some dust on the top, this is inevitable. After all, it is impossible to clean it every two days.

The pump body is painted with conspicuous red paint. From the paint spots falling on the ground, it can be inferred that Kesha Town must have repainted it after the water pump was installed.

The water pump had already been painted when it left the factory, but it was inevitably bumped during installation, or the people in Kesha Town were worried that the original paint would peel off, so they painted it an extra layer.

"Mayor Tal, your Kesha Town is doing very well. Next we want to test their normal operations."

Naturally, Tal did not object. He came to an electric switch embedded in the wall and pushed it up. Soon the motor made a loud noise, and then the fifth branch of the canal below the pumping station began to gurgling.

Because it is not yet time to release water, there is not a lot of water in the fifth branch canal, but there is definitely no problem in testing the working effect of the pump station.

As the water pump works, a steady stream of river water is pumped from the bottom into the pump house through pipes, and then flows along the water outlet into the small ditch outside the pump house leading to the fields. The clear river water spreads along the ditch to the surrounding fields. Of course, there are small gates between the fields and ditches. Only when these small gates are opened can the water flow into the corresponding fields.

"The effect is good. This new type of pumping station is mainly driven by electricity. As long as the power supply is stable, it is basically impossible to make big mistakes. The advantage is that it does not require fuel such as coal or diesel, and the pollution is relatively small."

Agricultural water diversion in East Africa mainly went through three periods: windmills, steam engine pumps and internal combustion engine pumps, and this time the Water Conservancy Bureau inspected the latest electric pumps.

Electric pumps have been in East Africa for a long time, but replacing traditional water pumps on a large scale will not be achieved overnight. However, this does not mean that electric pumps do not have shortcomings.

The most important one is the power supply problem. The power supply in East Africa is still relatively tight. If there is a power outage when the crops are short of water, it will be more troublesome. Of course, the probability of this happening is very small, but it has to be Defend.

Therefore, currently in East Africa, windmills, steam engine pumps, internal combustion engine pumps and electric pumps coexist in the four forms of agricultural water diversion.

The advantage of windmills is that they are environmentally friendly, and the main power comes from wind energy, which costs almost nothing. However, no one can guarantee the size and timing of the wind, so it is not stable.

At present, with the promotion of new water diversion technology, many windmills in East Africa have become "relics" and do not occupy a mainstream position. However, they can play a huge role when necessary, such as coal shortage, oil shortage, and electricity shortage. These three situations occur at the same time. when.

Steam engine pumps have been greatly improved compared to windmills, but the efficiency is still relatively slow, and coal combustion efficiency is not high, so the smoke is very large. In this case, many steam engine pump rooms in East Africa have to follow chimneys, and boiler combustion will produce a large amount of cinders, which requires Timely cleaning has left most of the steam engine pump rooms in East Africa looking "gray".

Internal combustion engine pumps are much better, have high efficiency, relatively less smoke, and do not produce a lot of cinders, but oil resources are not as easy to obtain as coal, and the cost is higher than coal.

The electric pump has more advantages. The only headache is the power supply. In East Africa in the 20th century, the power supply was relatively tight.

Not to mention remote towns like Kosha, even developed cities in East Africa such as Dar es Salaam may face power shortages at any time.

Of course, for the East African government, the power supply problem is not unsolvable. After all, new power plants are being built in East Africa every year, and with the advancement of technology, the loss of long-distance power transportation is getting smaller and smaller. The construction of East African power infrastructure is relatively The First Five-Year Plan has improved a lot before, and as time goes by, power shortages will only become less and less common in East Africa.

After all, relatively remote places like Liankosha Town have abundant electricity to power water pumps, which shows that East Africa has made great progress in the promotion of electricity.

The small pumping station reflects East Africa's continuous innovation and experimentation with new technologies in the fields of agriculture and water conservancy construction. It can be said to be a technological revolution in pumping stations.

"Mayor Tal, I'll trouble you this time. We will truthfully report the construction status of the pump station in Kesha Town to the bureau. I believe the city is quite satisfied with this."

Tal sighed and said: "That's good, I just completed the tasks assigned by my superiors seriously."

An investigator from the Water Conservancy Bureau said: "This is already very rare. We have discovered some serious problems in other towns and villages. Not everyone can conscientiously complete the tasks assigned above, so this kind of surprise inspection is still Very necessary."

He continued with emotion: "Nowadays, the country's agricultural production and industry are the same. The standards are becoming more and more strict, and the efficiency of agricultural production has indeed been greatly improved. It can be seen from the changes in our water conservancy department over the past ten years. In the construction of water conservancy facilities, Standards are getting higher and higher, implementation is becoming more standardized, and supervision is getting stricter.”

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