The additional storage space from the storeroom upgrade wasn’t much larger, only expanding by five square meters for the food storage room.
However, this was much more spacious compared to the original ten-square-meter space that had to accommodate both food and supplies. At least Chen Xin no longer had to deal with stepping on scattered supplies everywhere.
Especially with the newly added shelves on the walls, after placing the steel bars and some small parts, the floor of the storage room became much cleaner. Apart from cement, there was nothing left that needed to be placed on the floor.
Thus, a significant amount of space was freed up.
At least Chen Xin could drag the two air conditioning units piled beside the workbench into the supply storeroom rather than leaving them there, getting in the way.
After dragging the two air conditioning units into the storage room, Chen Xin returned to the workbench and opened the system interface again.
The workbench produced by the system not only can manufacture various equipment and process various parts with the help of the system, but it can also be used to disassemble various things.
Of course, this is a feature that the workbench inherently possesses; it’s just that with the power of the system, Chen Xin can make disassembly work easier and recycle resources more efficiently.
For example, as he sat in front of the workbench, the system interface showed the two air conditioning units that had been stuffed into the storage room, marked as ready for disassembly and resource recycling.
Evidently, under the might of the system, Chen Xin could sit in front of the workbench and directly disassemble items in the storeroom.
Seeing the air conditioning units displayed as ready for disassembly, Chen Xin hesitated slightly before clicking disassemble and broke one of the units into parts.
The parts did not appear on the workbench but remained in the storage room.
However, Chen Xin, having clicked to disassemble, was still curious and returned to the storeroom to see what was left of the air conditioning unit after the system’s disassembly.
At this moment, in the storeroom, the air conditioning unit that Chen Xin had originally stacked against the wall was already missing one unit, and the previously empty space on the nearby shelf now contained many disassembled parts.
Chen Xin walked to the shelf and picked up the disassembled parts, recognizing that it was one of the most critical components of the air conditioning unit—the compressor.
This was also a critical component needed for Chen Xin to manufacture a geothermal heat pump unit. Even though the system could assist Chen Xin in creating a geothermal heat pump, he couldn’t make these parts due to the inadequate level of the workbench.
Faced with the situation similar to a game where certain parts can’t be created and can only be collected in the wild or obtained through tasks, Chen Xin was not surprised.
With existing parts, crafting a usable geothermal heat pump unit through pipeline modification and parts assembled wasn’t too difficult. In fact, as long as the parts were intact, Chen Xin could assemble a geothermal heat pump unit without relying on the system.
However, trying to create a compressor with the current tools on the workbench was as fantastical as a fairy tale.
Although the compressor used in air conditioners seemed like merely a large and a small long canister connected, its internal structure was quite complex.
Before becoming a full-time writer and starting to write online novels, Chen Xin had worked in other fields and had some exposure to mechanical manufacturing due to work-related matters.
He knew clearly that manufacturing a compressor couldn’t be completed by a manual workshop. Even dismantling a compressor into parts and giving them to him, he might not be able to reassemble them entirely back to their original form.
Or rather, even if he could reassemble it, Chen Xin couldn’t be sure if the compressor would still work.
Because when a compressor is working, its internals is in a high-pressure state. Under such circumstances, even the slightest leak or improper assembly could turn a compressor into a bomb, causing serious consequences.
So manufacturing and processing such a device require true industrial-grade processing and manufacturing capabilities, not a garage workshop.
About such a situation, Chen Xin wasn’t actually bothered. His demand for such equipment parts wasn’t high. The supplies he could obtain from the special police team were already sufficient to meet his needs.
Moreover, with the system, if he couldn’t obtain them, Chen Xin could continuously upgrade the workbench and the workplace, ultimately enabling the production of the parts and equipment he needed.
Having lost interest in working, Chen Xin, upon seeing the disassembled parts, somehow became intrigued and returned to the workbench, intending to manufacture the first geothermal heat pump.
The geothermal heat pump unit, unlike the system blueprints for firearms on the gun cabinet workbench, didn’t have system blueprints for reference, relying on the system’s powerful features for foolproof operation.
The geothermal heat pump unit without blueprints or references required Chen Xin to assemble it piece by piece himself, with the system only providing some assistance.
Just like when Chen Xin previously made the oxygen generator, the system could only help process materials, enhancing parts precision and quality, but couldn’t replace him in directly processing materials into parts.
But this wasn’t a problem for Chen Xin. Although the structure of the geothermal heat pump system was somewhat complex, Chen Xin had relevant structural flow diagrams and schematic diagrams in his notebook, which allowed him to assemble the entire unit with reference to the diagrams.
However, even if he could assemble it, the one assembled by Chen Xin was still rough.
There was one thing Chen Xin hadn’t thought of before: in the data he saw, the refrigerant used in geothermal heat pump units was typically water, unlike the chemical refrigerant used in household air conditioners.
Water is the medium with the highest latent heat of evaporation in nature, and it carries the most heat when transitioning from a liquid to a gaseous state. However, for small household air conditioners, using water as a cooling cycle medium is unsuitable.
The refrigerants used in household air conditioners are small in volume, quick in effect, capable of vaporizing at room temperature and condensing when compressed.
As for using water as a cooling cycle medium, this exists in large central air conditioning systems or in applications like geothermal heat pumps where the cooling cycle medium needs to carry more heat, which is where water’s advantage comes into play.
This is somewhat like the difference between small trucks and large trucks. Small trucks carry less but are fast and flexible, suitable for small-scale use; large trucks carry more but are big and slow, suitable for large-scale use.
However, Chen Xin did not consider directly replacing the remaining cooling medium in these devices with water but intended to assemble the equipment first.
After all, this was just the outdoor unit of a household central air conditioner. The cooling cycle medium it used was still a chemical medium, which resulted in its circulation pipes being quite small. The evaporator and condenser were both designed for chemical media and not suitable for water.
If it weren’t for the system, even if Chen Xin wanted to make such changes, he wouldn’t succeed. But with the system, modifying the cooling medium wouldn’t be too troublesome.