Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were ...
Aerial firefighting helicopters ingest significant volumes of airborne particles, and operators are advised to conduct periodic “compressor washes” to remove the contaminants from the compressor.
A better mousetrap? Even now, as electrification seems poised to end the internal combustion engine’s long run as the transportation motivator of choice, enterprising tinkerers continue to propose ...
A turbocharger is the best power-adder by far. Not only do turbos harness otherwise wasted exhaust energy to drive the compressor, their modular nature lets compressor and turbine housings and wheels ...
Siemens — which designed and built this 375-MW gas turbine, said to be “the world`s biggest and most powerful” — will add the Rolls-Royce Energy assets, including aero-derivative gas turbine and ...
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared onHot Rod. VisitHotRod.comfor more stories like this one. This gas turbine engine appears to be a seventh-generation Chrysler turbine engine, produced ...
The first of the two patents, both of which were first brought to wider attention by CarBuzz, indicated that using a turbine as a steady-state generator could be considerably more efficient than what ...