Gas turbine, called a combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine.
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18 Facts About Gas turbine
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An extra Gas turbine is added to drive a propeller or ducted fan to reduce fuel consumption at subsonic flight speeds.
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An extra Gas turbine is required to drive a helicopter rotor or land-vehicle transmission, marine propeller or electrical generator .
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The purpose of the gas turbine determines the design so that the most desirable split of energy between the thrust and the shaft work is achieved.
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Simplest form of self-constructed gas turbine employs an automotive turbocharger as the core component.
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The thermal efficiency is lower in the indirect type of external combustion; however, the Gas turbine blades are not subjected to combustion products and much lower quality fuels are able to be used.
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The Gas turbine can be run at optimum speed for its power output, and batteries and ultracapacitors can supply power as needed, with the engine cycled on and off to run it only at high efficiency.
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Turbines have historically been more expensive to produce than piston engines, though this is partly because piston engines have been mass-produced in huge quantities for decades, while small gas turbine engines are rarities; however, turbines are mass-produced in the closely related form of the turbocharger.
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The objective of the consortium, which includes luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover and leading electrical machine company SR Drives, is to produce the world's first commercially viable – and environmentally friendly – gas turbine generator designed specifically for automotive applications.
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French Gas turbine-powered car, the SOCEMA-Gregoire, was displayed at the October 1952 Paris Auto Show.
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The GM Research gas turbine engine was fitted to a series of transit buses, starting with the Turbo-Cruiser I of 1953.
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In 1993 General Motors introduced the first commercial gas turbine powered hybrid vehicle—as a limited production run of the EV-1 series hybrid.
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The next year the STP Lotus 56 Gas turbine car won the Indianapolis 500 pole position even though new rules restricted the air intake dramatically.
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AVS Gas turbine hybrids were plagued with reliability and quality control problems, resulting in liquidation of AVS in 2003.
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The Gas turbine blades are highly sensitive to dust and fine sand so that in desert operations air filters have to be fitted and changed several times daily.
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The marine gas turbine operates in a more corrosive atmosphere due to the presence of sea salt in air and fuel and use of cheaper fuels.
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The gas turbine did have more success in Royal Navy ships and the other naval fleets of the world where sudden and rapid changes of speed are required by warships in action.
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Gas turbine technology has steadily advanced since its inception and continues to evolve.
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