AMT 226 – AIRCRAFT AUXILIARY POWER UNITS

PRELIM REVIEWER
2ND SEMESTER | 2ND YEAR | A.Y. 2023 – 2024
LECTURER: Engr. Carl Jomel S. Garcia

BLEED AIR SYSTEM ➢ Monitor the start sequence

• Uses a network of ducts, valves and ➢ The Turbine Speed
regulators to conduct medium to high ➢ Exhaust Temperature
pressure air, "bled" from the compressor ➢ Oil and fuel supply
section of the engine(s) and APU, to various ➢ Bleed Air Outlet
locations within the aircraft ➢ Controls Automatic Shutdown to
prevent any further damage
➢ Own fire protection system

HOW TO START APU

• Test the Fire protection
• Press the APU master push button
• Press APU Start
AUXILIARY POWER UNIT
• When a modern aircraft’s engines are not MAIN PURPOSE APU
operating, there are two available sources • To make plane self-sustainable on the
of power to operate its other systems ground
➢ Battery • Provide Electrical Power
➢ Auxiliary Power Unit • Bleed Air pressure for the Air conditioning
• Because of the limited capacity of the System
batteries, the amount of power they supply • Main Engine Start
is insufficient to provide all but the very
basic needs
• Operation of an aircraft’s air-conditioning
system, for example, would require
significantly more power than could be
supplied by the batteries
• To accommodate the needs of the aircraft
on the ground for substantial amounts of
energy while its engines are not operating,
modern aircraft are equipped with auxiliary
power units (APUs)
• The APUs are gas-turbine engines, using the
aircraft’s own fuel supply, which provide the
power to run the attached generators
• In addition, the APU is typically large
enough to provide sufficient pneumatic
power to start the aircraft’s engines
• The presence of an APU eliminates the need
for ground power units (GPUs)
• APU has its own electrical control box,
which;