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This is not a model engine pretending to be a jet engine. It is actually a complete gas turbine shrunk onto a test bench. Inside this small machine are a compressor, combustion chamber, turbine wheel, fuel system and digital engine controller, the same basic physics used in aircraft engines....

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A Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan is one of the most successful fighter jet engines ever built. First run was in 1972, it still powers the F-15 and F-16 more than 50 years later. Over 7,200 engines have been built, collectively logging 32+ million flight hours. At full afterburner, it produces up to 129 kN or 29,000 lb of thrust while burning roughly 800-900 litres of jet fuel every minute. The afterburner, it's a second combustion stage that ignites fuel in the exhaust stream to generate maximum combat thrust. This test cell isn't checking if the engine starts. It's measuring vibration, temperatures, pressures, fuel flow, and thrust while a machine producing 29,000 pounds of force is bolted to the ground. What here looks like a routine engine test is actually one of the most demanding demonstrations of precision engineering in aerospace, Each brand new F100 engine is worth roughly $5-8 million, reflecting five decades of continuous refinement in fighter propulsion. 🎥kaydenh0dge
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A Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan is one of the most successful fighter jet engines ever built. First run was in 1972, it still powers the F-15 and F-16 more than 50 years later. Over 7,200 engines have been built, collectively logging 32+ million flight hours. At full afterburner, it produces up to 129 kN or 29,000 lb of thrust while burning roughly 800-900 litres of jet fuel every minute. The afterburner, it's a second combustion stage that ignites fuel in the exhaust stream to generate maximum combat thrust. This test cell isn't checking if the engine starts. It's measuring vibration, temperatures, pressures, fuel flow, and thrust while a machine producing 29,000 pounds of force is bolted to the ground. What here looks like a routine engine test is actually one of the most demanding demonstrations of precision engineering in aerospace, Each brand new F100 engine is worth roughly $5-8 million, reflecting five decades of continuous refinement in fighter propulsion. 🎥kaydenh0dge

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Have a look at one of the greatest examples of industrial engineering art ever created. This is the rotor assembly of the Ansaldo Energia GT36, one of the most advanced heavy-duty gas turbines ever developed. What looks like a collection of polished metal blades is actually the result of 3.7 million hours of engineering, combining decades of research in aerodynamics, combustion, metallurgy, cooling systems and precision manufacturing. A gas turbine works by compressing enormous volumes of air, mixing it with fuel, burning it at extreme temperatures, and extracting energy from the expanding gases through multiple turbine stages. That is why no two blade rows look the same. Across this rotor assembly, the colours, shapes and surface finishes constantly change because each section is solving a different problem. Some blades are designed to move and control massive airflow volumes, while others must survive the most extreme environment inside the machine. The most advanced turbine blades contain microscopic internal cooling channels. The cooling does not come from room-temperature air. Compressed air extracted from the compressor section already heated to 650 degrees Celsius, is redirected through passages inside the blade. It then exits through thousands of tiny holes, creating a thin protective cooling film in real time 24/7 over the surface of the blades while the surrounding combustion gases exceed 1,500°C all while rotating at 3000 RPM. A blade is not surviving because the metal alone can withstand the heat. It survives because engineers created a controlled thermal environment around it. The blades rely on advanced nickel-based superalloys containing elements such as rhenium, tungsten, cobalt and chromium, protected by metallic bond coats and ceramic thermal barrier coatings such as yttria-stabilised zirconia. These coatings are one of the most closely guarded proprietary technologies in turbine manufacturing. Every blade requires precision casting, advanced machining, laser drilling and microscopic inspection. A manufacturing defect measured in fractions of a millimetre can affect a rotor weighing around 150 tonnes and spinning at 3,000 RPM. The complete GT36 turbine system weighs around 520 tonnes and, in its most efficient combined-cycle configuration, can produce approximately 800 MW of electricity at around 64% efficiency enough to supply roughly 500,000+ homes. A complete power plant built around a machine like this can cost around $500-600 million, but the true value is not the steel and turbine machinery. It is the industrial capability and know how required to build a machine designed to operate for 30+ years and more than 100,000 equivalent operating hours, while repeatedly surviving one of the harshest environments humans have ever engineered. This is what the peak of industrial engineering looks like before it starts moving, this is what powers the world. Engineering is Art Video by AnsaldoEnergia
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Have a look at one of the greatest examples of industrial engineering art ever created. This is the rotor assembly of the Ansaldo Energia GT36, one of the most advanced heavy-duty gas turbines ever developed. What looks like a collection of polished metal blades is actually the result of 3.7 million hours of engineering, combining decades of research in aerodynamics, combustion, metallurgy, cooling systems and precision manufacturing. A gas turbine works by compressing enormous volumes of air, mixing it with fuel, burning it at extreme temperatures, and extracting energy from the expanding gases through multiple turbine stages. That is why no two blade rows look the same. Across this rotor assembly, the colours, shapes and surface finishes constantly change because each section is solving a different problem. Some blades are designed to move and control massive airflow volumes, while others must survive the most extreme environment inside the machine. The most advanced turbine blades contain microscopic internal cooling channels. The cooling does not come from room-temperature air. Compressed air extracted from the compressor section already heated to 650 degrees Celsius, is redirected through passages inside the blade. It then exits through thousands of tiny holes, creating a thin protective cooling film in real time 24/7 over the surface of the blades while the surrounding combustion gases exceed 1,500°C all while rotating at 3000 RPM. A blade is not surviving because the metal alone can withstand the heat. It survives because engineers created a controlled thermal environment around it. The blades rely on advanced nickel-based superalloys containing elements such as rhenium, tungsten, cobalt and chromium, protected by metallic bond coats and ceramic thermal barrier coatings such as yttria-stabilised zirconia. These coatings are one of the most closely guarded proprietary technologies in turbine manufacturing. Every blade requires precision casting, advanced machining, laser drilling and microscopic inspection. A manufacturing defect measured in fractions of a millimetre can affect a rotor weighing around 150 tonnes and spinning at 3,000 RPM. The complete GT36 turbine system weighs around 520 tonnes and, in its most efficient combined-cycle configuration, can produce approximately 800 MW of electricity at around 64% efficiency enough to supply roughly 500,000+ homes. A complete power plant built around a machine like this can cost around $500-600 million, but the true value is not the steel and turbine machinery. It is the industrial capability and know how required to build a machine designed to operate for 30+ years and more than 100,000 equivalent operating hours, while repeatedly surviving one of the harshest environments humans have ever engineered. This is what the peak of industrial engineering looks like before it starts moving, this is what powers the world. Engineering is Art Video by AnsaldoEnergia

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As the CFM LEAP engine shuts down, you can hear the distinctive “whoosh” sound followed by a gush of air. That is the Reverse Bleed System (RBS) at work. During normal operation, a significant amount of fuel remains unpurged in the system after engine shutdown. This residual fuel, located near or within the hot section, vaporizes due to high temperatures and deposits carbon (coke) on the fuel nozzles. Over time, nozzle coking leads to several operational and maintenance issues, including loss of thrust, reduced engine efficiency due to incomplete combustion, accelerated deterioration of hot-section components (combustor and High-Pressure Turbine), engine start failures, potential engine stalls, and increased unscheduled engine removals. The Reverse Bleed System (RBS) prevents fuel nozzle coking by automatically introducing cool air from the core compartment into the engine core flowpath after shutdown. This effectively lowers the fuel nozzle temperature below the coking threshold. RBS can operate for a maximum of 1 hour, and its effectiveness depends on ambient conditions (especially ambient temperature) and the total duration it runs. The last flight of the day contributes the most to fuel nozzle coke accumulation because of the extended dwell time at the gate. By actively managing post-shutdown thermal conditions, RBS significantly reduces coking-related problems, improves engine reliability, and lowers long-term maintenance costs. Now, also coming soon to the CFM56

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Most people have heard of nitrous oxide, but very few understand why injecting this gas can allow a piston engine to go from 450 horsepower to more than 2,000 horsepower. Nitrous oxide N₂O is not fuel. It is an oxygen carrier. Inside the combustion chamber, extreme heat breaks it down, releasing additional oxygen that allows the engine to burn far more fuel than it normally could. But the hard part is not adding nitrous. The real engineering challenge is controlling the explosion, precisely balancing nitrous flow, fuel delivery, ignition timing and cylinder temperatures. Too little fuel creates a melted engine. Too much destroys the power advantage.

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A pickle jar can function as a tiny jet engine. The setup is simple: a glass jar with a small hole in the lid holds a volatile fuel like methanol, which evaporates to create a fuel and air mixture inside. A flame brought to the hole ignites it, and the cycle begins. Here is what happens in each pulse. Combustion sends a sharp pressure spike through the jar, forcing hot gas out the lid hole as thrust. The escaping gas creates a brief partial vacuum inside, which pulls fresh air back in through the same hole. Residual heat ignites the new mixture automatically, and the cycle repeats dozens to hundreds of times per second. The jar and hole act as a resonant cavity, which is why it pulses instead of burning steadily. A single opening cannot handle exhaust and intake at the same time, so the system locks into a natural rhythm. It produces almost no real thrust, but it is a clear window into how actual pulsejet engines work, and the physics on display are the same ones used in real aerospace propulsion. Follow for more!
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A modern wind turbine looks deceptively simple from the outside. The largest onshore turbines now use blades stretching beyond 80 metres, sweeping more than 20,000 m² of air. Yet the entire structure rotates at only around 10-20 RPM. Actually, inside the nacelle is a precision gearbox that transforms this slow, high-torque rotation into the 1,000-1,800 RPM required by the generator. This gearbox is one of the most demanding mechanical systems in renewable energy. It continuously transmits megawatts of power, while surviving changing wind loads, vibration and billions of fatigue cycles over a 20-25 year lifespan. Inside are planetary gear stages, precision-ground alloy steel gears, advanced bearings, lubrication systems and cooling circuits. Some of the largest geared turbines contain close to 1000+ liters of specialised synthetic oil to manage lubrication and heat during continuous operation. A single large onshore turbine can cost around $4-5 million, with complete projects costing significantly more after foundations, roads, electrical systems and installation. The goal is for the machine to recover its capital cost within roughly 5-10 years, then continue producing electricity for decades. This is why reliability is the biggest challenge. Gearboxes, bearings, generators and electrical systems remain critical failure points, pushing engineers toward better materials, sensors and predictive maintenance. The scale of this industry is enormous. China has become the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturing and exporting hub, with several Chinese companies among the largest turbine suppliers globally. Building a wind turbine is not just about capturing wind in an efficient manner, It is about creating a machine that can convert wind energy into electricity for millions of hours with minimal human intervention and sustain millions of load cycles.
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64,035 次观看 • 8 天前

🚨 JAY LENO JUST PULLED UP IN A CAR THAT RUNS ON PERFUME OR TEQUILA — AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A GIANT VACUUM Jay Leno just rolled up in one of the strangest cars ever built: the 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car, with bodies hand-built by Ghia in Italy. Instead of a normal piston engine, it uses a jet-style turbine. And when it starts up, it doesn’t rumble like a V8. It sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner spooling up. Then Leno shows the part that catches everyone off guard first. He puts a bottle of water on the engine while it’s running… and it barely ripples. Almost no vibration at all while the turbine spins. Then he explains why this car is so bizarre. The engine is designed to run on almost anything that burns: • Diesel • Kerosene • Jet fuel • Heating oil • Cooking oil Leno says when Chrysler took the car to Mexico, they ran it on tequila. When they brought it to France, they filled the tank with Chanel No.5 perfume. Only 9 of these Chrysler Turbine Cars are believed to still exist today. If your car could run on almost anything that burns... what would you try putting in the tank first?
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🚨 JAY LENO JUST PULLED UP IN A CAR THAT RUNS ON PERFUME OR TEQUILA — AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A GIANT VACUUM Jay Leno just rolled up in one of the strangest cars ever built: the 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car, with bodies hand-built by Ghia in Italy. Instead of a normal piston engine, it uses a jet-style turbine. And when it starts up, it doesn’t rumble like a V8. It sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner spooling up. Then Leno shows the part that catches everyone off guard first. He puts a bottle of water on the engine while it’s running… and it barely ripples. Almost no vibration at all while the turbine spins. Then he explains why this car is so bizarre. The engine is designed to run on almost anything that burns: • Diesel • Kerosene • Jet fuel • Heating oil • Cooking oil Leno says when Chrysler took the car to Mexico, they ran it on tequila. When they brought it to France, they filled the tank with Chanel No.5 perfume. Only 9 of these Chrysler Turbine Cars are believed to still exist today. If your car could run on almost anything that burns... what would you try putting in the tank first?

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868,221 次观看 • 5 个月前

I've kept a pretty low (online) profile of what I'm building, but word's getting out. My company Astro Mechanica has invented a new kind of jet engine. Unlike any existing engine, it's efficient at every speed. Because it's efficient at every speed, we can use it in a new way: as the first stage of an orbital launch vehicle. The resulting platform will get payloads to orbit dramatically cheaper than all-rocket systems - among many possible applications. The key insight is to use electric motors to drive a compressor. That way we can make it spin at any speed, allowing it to "adapt" to it's airspeed and combustion cycle. One of the coolest parts: the video below is of a demonstrator my team and I built last year. We already have a new engine with 10x the thrust that will be complete next month.
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94,810 次观看 • 8 个月前

Why do we clean the core of our engines when the planes are flying through the rain? Shouldn’t the rainwater be enough? Many people believe that rain naturally cleans aircraft engines during flight. However, this is not true. Although rainwater does enter the engine intake, it is mostly thrown outward by centrifugal force in the compressor section. The rotating blades cause the water droplets to move toward the outer casing of the engine, where they are drained away and do not reach the internal gas path where dirt and deposits accumulate. Gas Path Cleaning is the process of cleaning the internal airflow path of an aircraft engine, especially in the compressor and turbine sections. It removes deposits like dust, soot, oil, and salt that build up during operation. This cleaning improves engine efficiency and fuel consumption, maintains engine performance, reduces component wear by lowering operating temperatures. 📸 by ig/muc_maintenance Not an ad
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Why do we clean the core of our engines when the planes are flying through the rain? Shouldn’t the rainwater be enough? Many people believe that rain naturally cleans aircraft engines during flight. However, this is not true. Although rainwater does enter the engine intake, it is mostly thrown outward by centrifugal force in the compressor section. The rotating blades cause the water droplets to move toward the outer casing of the engine, where they are drained away and do not reach the internal gas path where dirt and deposits accumulate. Gas Path Cleaning is the process of cleaning the internal airflow path of an aircraft engine, especially in the compressor and turbine sections. It removes deposits like dust, soot, oil, and salt that build up during operation. This cleaning improves engine efficiency and fuel consumption, maintains engine performance, reduces component wear by lowering operating temperatures. 📸 by ig/muc_maintenance Not an ad

aircraftmaintenancengineer

18,750 次观看 • 1 年前

Good news on the jet engine project ✅: I redesigned the exhaust system again to prioritize cooling, thrust & the afterburner sequence all together, it now works better✅, no red hot situation on the exhaust at all✅ The new design also reduces pressure on the turbine on AB mode✅ This test was done with gas for the main engine running at 50% power, then liquid kerosene for the AB🔥. I wish to change the fuel nozzles on the main burner to a more powerful one next week, then we'll do this test again close to 100% power which will be louder & much more violent ⚡️ After that, we'll go straight to a runway & let this beast run🚀 #Zedora #madeinEbonyi 🇳🇬
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Good news on the jet engine project ✅: I redesigned the exhaust system again to prioritize cooling, thrust & the afterburner sequence all together, it now works better✅, no red hot situation on the exhaust at all✅ The new design also reduces pressure on the turbine on AB mode✅ This test was done with gas for the main engine running at 50% power, then liquid kerosene for the AB🔥. I wish to change the fuel nozzles on the main burner to a more powerful one next week, then we'll do this test again close to 100% power which will be louder & much more violent ⚡️ After that, we'll go straight to a runway & let this beast run🚀 #Zedora #madeinEbonyi 🇳🇬

Ziko Abara

22,396 次观看 • 1 年前

China’s first 550MW F-class gas turbine has completed a 168-hour full-load trial run. This is not just another power plant story. Heavy-duty gas turbines are the core equipment of large gas-fired power stations, and for a long time this field was dominated by a handful of Western companies. What matters is simple: China is now pushing deeper into the part of the energy equipment chain that used to be hardest to localize. Not just building power stations. Building the engines of them.
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China’s first 550MW F-class gas turbine has completed a 168-hour full-load trial run. This is not just another power plant story. Heavy-duty gas turbines are the core equipment of large gas-fired power stations, and for a long time this field was dominated by a handful of Western companies. What matters is simple: China is now pushing deeper into the part of the energy equipment chain that used to be hardest to localize. Not just building power stations. Building the engines of them.

𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦

63,578 次观看 • 4 个月前

•042426• new interview of #zhanglinghe with Movie News for "The Answer is Earth" documentary 💬🌱 ZLH🚀: this is a small souvenir they gave me when I visited the wind turbine manufacturing plant. 👤: I know you really like these kinds of things. ZLH🚀: yes, this is the motor of the wind turbine, located at the highest point of the turbine shaft. these are the blades. they look small now, but in reality, when I went to the wind turbine manufacturing plant, it was about 80 meters long. really huge. and the proportions might not be accurate. when we stood below it, it was incredibly impressive. it works like this: the wind comes from this direction and drives the blades to rotate. then the motor converts that kinetic energy into electrical energy. there are cables below that can directly transmit the electricity to a substation, where it's stepped up or down in voltage, and then sent to places on land where the electricity is used. that's how a wind turbine works. 👤: it's a very meaningful souvenir. ZLH🚀: yes. 👤: where are you planning to put it? ZLH🚀: before I brought this with me, I usually keep it next to my computer.
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•042426• new interview of #zhanglinghe with Movie News for "The Answer is Earth" documentary 💬🌱 ZLH🚀: this is a small souvenir they gave me when I visited the wind turbine manufacturing plant. 👤: I know you really like these kinds of things. ZLH🚀: yes, this is the motor of the wind turbine, located at the highest point of the turbine shaft. these are the blades. they look small now, but in reality, when I went to the wind turbine manufacturing plant, it was about 80 meters long. really huge. and the proportions might not be accurate. when we stood below it, it was incredibly impressive. it works like this: the wind comes from this direction and drives the blades to rotate. then the motor converts that kinetic energy into electrical energy. there are cables below that can directly transmit the electricity to a substation, where it's stepped up or down in voltage, and then sent to places on land where the electricity is used. that's how a wind turbine works. 👤: it's a very meaningful souvenir. ZLH🚀: yes. 👤: where are you planning to put it? ZLH🚀: before I brought this with me, I usually keep it next to my computer.

张凌赫的小核桃𖹭

14,289 次观看 • 3 个月前

🚨🇷🇺 WESTERN SANCTIONS OBSOLETE: RUSSIA'S FIRST GTD-110M GAS TURBINE IN FULL OPERATION Western officials keep insisting sanctions are crippling Russian industry, yet the first production of GTD-110M gas turbine has already surpassed 12,000 operating hours at a thermal power plant in southern Russia. It reached full capacity in November 2024 and helps keep the lights on for residents and businesses in the region. 🔸 It is Russia’s first domestically designed gas power turbine in the 90–130 MW class, capable of driving generators in plants up to 500 MW. 🔸 The turbine delivers ~36% efficiency, matching leading global models while being significantly lighter and more compact. 🔸 This engine forms a cornerstone of Moscow’s technological sovereignty push, dramatically reducing reliance on sanctioned Western turbines and spare parts. 🔸 It proves concentrated domestic engineering can still produce competitive hardware even under broad Western tech restrictions. Do you think the West's sanctions have a real impact on Russia?
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🚨🇷🇺 WESTERN SANCTIONS OBSOLETE: RUSSIA'S FIRST GTD-110M GAS TURBINE IN FULL OPERATION Western officials keep insisting sanctions are crippling Russian industry, yet the first production of GTD-110M gas turbine has already surpassed 12,000 operating hours at a thermal power plant in southern Russia. It reached full capacity in November 2024 and helps keep the lights on for residents and businesses in the region. 🔸 It is Russia’s first domestically designed gas power turbine in the 90–130 MW class, capable of driving generators in plants up to 500 MW. 🔸 The turbine delivers ~36% efficiency, matching leading global models while being significantly lighter and more compact. 🔸 This engine forms a cornerstone of Moscow’s technological sovereignty push, dramatically reducing reliance on sanctioned Western turbines and spare parts. 🔸 It proves concentrated domestic engineering can still produce competitive hardware even under broad Western tech restrictions. Do you think the West's sanctions have a real impact on Russia?

NewRulesGeopolitics

28,350 次观看 • 2 个月前