Fuel Pump Scrounge! (Gas Turbine...)

May 21, 2004 23 Replies

Wot graphs????

You are doing it wrong!

You just use a little guestimation and it all comes right in the end... Seems to me that around 50 percent of the air just goes straight through for cooling turbine blades and combustor, so there should be lots of air in that tailpipe to oxydise me extra Jet-A or kerosine??? Engine burns so well that there is no source of ignition in the tailpipe! Just needs needs the extra sprayed fuel "lighting"... A plug doesn't seem to do the trick, so next step is to pour a stream of neat unatomised fuel via a small steel pipe into the combustion chamber at one edge. It should burn and stream right through the turbine and out the back... And ignite the afterburner???

I was going to put it all into my own words but my lecturer, Prof Sergei (I headed the Mig program dont you know..) Chernyshenko explains it all a little better than I do!!

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on page 2 is whathe has to say about reheat, and is what im learning :( Like I said, I wouldmuch prefer to be playing with the real thing rather than numbers!! Max

I am pretty bright, but that stuff is way beyond me!

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Likewise! :P Its slowly going in, have just worked through a full derivation of thrust for a turbojet engine. I really need to get out more!! Hows the whole skateboard project thing going (sorry i cant remember the details, im mentally drained now!)

Max

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