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    How Do Aircraft Jet Engines Work?

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    Jet engines work by taking in air and accelerating it using compressor blades powered by a turbine. The compressed air is mixed with fuel and ignited, producing hot gases that further power the turbine before being expelled out the back at high speed, generating thrust. The key parts are the compressor, combustor, turbine, and nozzle. The first jet engine was invented in ancient Egypt but modern jet engines come in types like turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft used in aircraft, missiles, and helicopters.

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    How Do Aircraft Jet Engines Work?

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    Jet engines work by taking in air and accelerating it using compressor blades powered by a turbine. The compressed air is mixed with fuel and ignited, producing hot gases that further power the turbine before being expelled out the back at high speed, generating thrust. The key parts are the compressor, combustor, turbine, and nozzle. The first jet engine was invented in ancient Egypt but modern jet engines come in types like turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft used in aircraft, missiles, and helicopters.

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    Jet engines work by taking in air and accelerating it using compressor blades powered by a turbine. The compressed air is mixed with fuel and ignited, producing hot gases that further power the turbine before being expelled out the back at high speed, generating thrust. The key parts are the compressor, combustor, turbine, and nozzle. The first jet engine was invented in ancient Egypt but modern jet engines come in types like turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft used in aircraft, missiles, and helicopters.

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    How Do Aircraft Jet Engines Work?

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    Jet engines work by taking in air and accelerating it using compressor blades powered by a turbine. The compressed air is mixed with fuel and ignited, producing hot gases that further power the turbine before being expelled out the back at high speed, generating thrust. The key parts are the compressor, combustor, turbine, and nozzle. The first jet engine was invented in ancient Egypt but modern jet engines come in types like turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, and turboshaft used in aircraft, missiles, and helicopters.

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    How do aircraft jet engines work?

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    • The first jet engine was built by Egyptian
    scientists during 100 B.C

    • This device was known as Aeolipile.

    • It is also called as the Hero’s Engine

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    • Jet engine is nothing but a Gas turbine.

    • It works under the principle of Newton’s third law

    • It states that “For every acting force there is an equal and


    opposite force”

    • Gas turbine operates like toy balloon

    3
    Parts Of Jet Engine

     FAN
     COMPRESSOR
     COMBUSTOR
     TURBINE
     MIXER
     NOZZLE

    4
    How A Jet Engine Works ?
    • Jet engines move the airplane forward with a great force that is produced
    by a tremendous thrust and causes the plane to fly very fast.

    5
    How A Jet Engine Works ?
    Air Intake
     Sucked in by the compressor

    Compressor

     Series of vanes and stators


     The vanes rotate, while the stator
    remains stationary
     Compressor speed and
    temperature increases gradually

    6
    How A Jet Engine Works ?
    Fuel Burner

     Fuel is mixed with the air, and


    electric sparks light the air,
    causing it to combust

    Combustion Chamber

     The air is burnt

     Increase in the temperature of


    the air, thus increases the
    pressure inside the engine
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    How A Jet Engine Works ?
    Turbine

     Works like a windmill


     The blades gain energy from the hot
    gases moving past them
     This movement is used to power the
    compressor

    Jet Pipe and Propelling Nozzle

     The hot air rushes out of the nozzle


     High pressure
     Hot air rushes out at very high speed
    8
    Types Of Jet Engines

    • Ramjet
    • Turbojet
    • Turbofan
    • Turboprop
    • Turbo shaft

    9
    Ramjet
    • It has no moving parts

    • Its compression ratio depends on


    forward speed

    • It has no static thrust

    • Guided-missile systems, Space


    vehicles use this type of jet

    10
    Turbojet
    • The turbojet engine is a reaction
    engine
    • Substantial increases in thrust can be
    obtained by employing an afterburner

    11
    Turbofan • The objective of this sort of bypass system is to increase thrust
    without increasing fuel consumption.
    • It achieves this by increasing the total air-mass flow and
    reducing the velocity within the same total energy supply.
    • 75% of thrust is produced by the fan.

    12
    A Turbofan Aircraft Engine:

    13
    Turboprop
    • A turboprop engine is a jet engine attached to a propeller.

    • Modern turboprop engines are equipped with propellers that


    have a smaller diameter but a larger number of blades for
    efficient operation at much higher flight speeds

    14
    Turboshaft • It does not drive a propeller
    • It provides power for a helicopter rotor
    • It permits the rotor speed to be kept constant
    even when the speed of the generator is varied

    15
    That’s all. Any questions?

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