Aircraft Turbine Engine Innovation
From 1930's of Whittle turbojet core
concept till date, turbine engines have undergone a enormous makeover, And a wind
turbine or largest offshore wind turbine, Scope of improvement and innovation
research remains imminent on the below areas.
Design and Weight:
- Engine prairie architecture advancement.
- Novel alloys / MMC's -Improved metallurgical
analysis.
- Non-Metallics.
Efficiency-Thermal:
- Hybrid electric spacecraft
propulsion.
- Highly loaded recip compressor.
- High OPR.
- Low emissions vapor combustor.
- Adaptive Cycles.
- Constant volume combustion.
Transfer efficiency:
- Low Engine inlet losses.
- Low loss exhausts or turbo back -Variable.
- Power transmission Distribution.
Propulsive efficiency:
- Very high Bypass ratio turbofans.
- Ultra-high Bypass ratio turbofans.
- Wake ingestion.
- Open rotors concept.
- Distributed propulsion.
Technologies to be innovated:
- Hot section materials.
- Core noise.
- Next Generation disk material.
- The highly loaded front block
compressors.
- High-temperature compressor and
turbine blades/vanes.
- Ceramic matrix composites usage.
- Tip/end wall aerodynamics.
- Turbine clearance controls.
- Low NOx combustors.
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