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AIM: - Report on Turbojet Engine with Afterburner

Abstract
The turbojet is an air breathing jet engine, used in aircraft. It
consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas
turbine has an air inlet, a compressor, a combustion chamber,
and a turbine (that drives the compressor). The compressed air
from the compressor is heated by the fuel in the combustion
chamber and then allowed to expand through the turbine. The
turbine exhaust is then expanded in the propelling nozzle where
it is accelerated to high speed to provide thrust.

Design
Air intake
An intake, or tube, is needed in front of the compressor to help
direct the incoming air smoothly into the moving compressor
blades.

Compressor
The compressor is driven by the turbine. It rotates at high speed,
adding energy to the airflow and at the same time compressing it
into a smaller space. Compressing the air increases its pressure
and temperature.

Combustion chamber
In a turbojet the air and fuel mixture burn in the combustor and
pass through to the turbine in a continuous flowing process with
no pressure build-up.

Turbine
Hot gases leaving the combustor expand through the turbine.
Turbine is largely an impulse turbine and rotates because of the
impact of the hot gas stream. Energy is transferred into the shaft
through momentum exchange in the opposite way to energy
transfer in the compressor.

Nozzle
After the turbine, the gases expand through the exhaust nozzle
producing a high velocity jet.

Afterburner
An afterburner is a combustion chamber added to reheat the
turbine exhaust gases. In afterburner extra fuel is added to
increase the thrust of the jet

Working
Air is drawn into the rotating compressor via the intake and is
compressed to a higher pressure before entering the combustion
chamber. Fuel is mixed with the compressed air and burns in the
combustor. The combustion products leave the combustor and
expand through the turbine where power is extracted to drive the
compressor. The turbine exit gases still contain considerable
energy that is converted in the propelling nozzle to a high speed
jet.

Experimental Setup

Applications
Aircraft.
Medium range cruise missiles, due to their high exhaust
speed, small frontal area, and relative simplicity.
Turbojets have also been used experimentally to clear snow
from switches in rail yards.
Helicopters and hovercraft.
Power vehicles.

Advantages
High power to weight ratio compared to reciprocating
engines.
Smaller than their reciprocating Engine.

Disadvantages
Turbojet Engine uses more fuel.
Turbojet Engine is only efficient at high speeds.

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