In general, the main challenge with starting a turbine engine is ensuring there is sufficient airflow before introducing fuel. If the compressor blades are not pushing enough air through the engine, introducing fuel and beginning combustion will cause the engine to overheat and will damage it. This is called a hot start. So, every jet engine […]
Gas turbine engine
China Eastern A330 near Xiamen on Dec 3rd 2023, uncontained engine failure
A China Eastern Airbus A330-300, registration B-8970 performing flight MU-721 from Shanghai Hongquiao to Hong Kong (China), was enroute at 10400 meters (about FL341) about 30nm north of Xiamen (China) when the left hand engine (Trent 772) suffered the separation of one and a half of the fan blades ejecting the fan blades through the […]
Can jet engines melt?
Visit –https://hub.daddyssolutions.com/demo/debug1/blog/ for more interesting articles. Yes. Gas turbine engine designers jump through hoops to keep that from happening. They create turbine blades out of special heat resistant, high-strength allows and with holes and internal ducting through which coolant is pumped: They coat the turbine blades with insulating cermics: And they carefully control the fuel-air mix, […]
