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Fuel Burner
•Fuel is mixed with the air , and
Air intake electric spark light the air, cause it to
•Sucked in by the compressor.
combust.
Compressor
•series of vanes and stators. Combustion chamber
• The air is burst.
•The vanes rotate, while the
• Increase in the temperature of the
stator remains stationary.
•Compressor speed and air, thus increase in pressure inside
the engine.
temperature increases gradually
.
Turbine Jet pipe and propelling nozzle
•Works like a windmill •the hot air rushes out the nozzle.
•The blades gain energy from the hot gassed •High pressure
moving past them. •Hot air russes out at very high speed
•This movement is used to power the
compressor.
Brayton Cycle
•A turboprop is a jet
engine attached to
a propeller.
•Modern turboprop
engine are equipped
with propeller that
have a smaller
diameter but a large
number of a blades for
efficient operation at
much higher flight
speed.
Turboshaft
• It doesn't have a
propeller.
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