The aircraft gas turbine engine and its operation: support services
Maker and role
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Creator
Production date
1982
Object detail
Accession number
PUB-2020-6.1
Maker
Description
Preface -- Section I -- Gas turbine engine fundamentals -- Introduction -- Background -- The jet propulsion theory -- Jet engines for aircraft -- What is a jet engine? -- How a turbojet operates -- Why thrust, not horsepower? -- Thrust horsepower -- The generation of thrust -- Definition of mass -- A simple jet-type engine -- The thrust equation for a turbojet -- Net thrust -- Gross thrust -- Where the thrust comes from -- Measuring thrust in practice -- Factors affecting thrust -- Jet nozzle velocity -- Air velocity -- Mass airflow -- Air density and the effect of temperature and pressure -- Altitude effect --Ram effect -- Types of jet engines for aircraft -- Turbojet -- Turboprop and turboshaft engines -- Turbofan -- Jet engines with afterburners -- Miscellaneous reaction engines -- Ramjet -- Pulsejet -- Rocket motor --
Section II -- Gas turbine engine terms -- Airspeed, mach number, and knots -- Energy and efficiency -- Engine station designations -- Equivalent shaft horsepower (turboprops only) -- Gas generator -- Letters and symbols -- Percent rpm -- Pressure, pressure measurement and pressure ration -- Pressure measurement -- Pressure ratio -- Specific fuel consumption -- Thrust specific fuel consumption -- Equivalent specific fuel consumption -- Standard atmospheric conditions -- Standard day -- Subsonic, sonic and supersonic gas flow -- Diffusers and diffusion -- Temperature, heat, temperature measurement, and temperature ratio -- Temperature and heat -- Temperature measurement -- Static and total temperature -- Temperature ratio --
Section III -- Gas turbine engine components -- Air inlet duct -- General -- Single entrance duct -- Blow-in doors -- Divided entrance duct -- Variable geometry duct for supersonic aircraft -- Turboprop air inlets and reduction gearing -- Compressor inlet screens and air particle separators -- Engine air inlet section -- Turbofan engine fan sections -- Compressors -- Centrifugal compressors -- Axial compressors -- Dual axial compressors -- Compressor surge and compressor airbleed -- Variable-angle compressor stators -- Diffuser section and airbleed -- Fuel manifolds and nozzles -- Burner section -- Combustion chambers -- Can type burner and multiple combustion chamber -- Annular combustion chamber -- Can annular combustion chamber -- Annular combustion chamber -- Burner smoke reduction -- Turbines -- Turbine cooling -- Exhaust ducts -- Conventional convergent exhaust nozzle -- Convergent-divergent exhaust nozzle -- Thrust reversers -- Jet noise suppressors -- Afterburners -- Afterburner duct -- Engines with duct heaters -- Afterburner operation -- Afterburner exhaust nozzle -- Afterburner nozzle control unit -- Special features -- Accessories -- Airbleed-driven accessories -- Mechanically driven accessories -- Starters -- Air-turbine starters -- Combustion starters -- Cartridge-pneumatic starters -- Fuel systems and fuel controls -- The basic fuel system -- Fuel pump -- Emergency of manual fuel system -- Pressurizing and dump valve -- Afterburner fuel system and fuel control -- Afterburner emergency shutoff valve -- Afterburner igniter -- Water injection and the fuel system -- Fuel control -- Fuel control levers -- Fuel control functions and characteristics -- Turboprop and turboshaft engine fuel controls (and propeller governors for turboprops) -- Lubrication systems -- Ignition systems -- Igniter plugs -- Engine cooling -- Water injection -- Protection against icing -- Compressor inlet anti-icing: centrifugal compressor engines -- Compressor inlet anti-icing: axial flow compressor engines -- Compressor inlet anti-icing: turboprop and turboshaft engines -- Fuel-deicing systems --
Section IV -- Gas turbine engine operation -- Engine ratings -- Centrifugal compressor engines -- Axial flow compressor commercial engines -- Axial flow compressor military engines -- Engine instrumentation -- Engine thrust indication -- Instrumentation for measuring thrust (and power for turboprops) -- Engine controls and indicator lights -- Before starting an engine -- Engine starting -- Takeoff -- Climb and cruise -- Descent, approach, and Landing -- Engine shutdown -- Turboprop operation -- Emergencies and malfunctions -- Engine maintenance -- Engine condition monitoring --
Section V -- Engine operational characteristics -- Cleaning engine air passages -- Compressor surge -- Engine inlet anti-icing -- Thrust setting, ratings and limits -- Engine rating time limits -- Exhaust gas temperature -- The exhaust gas temperature (EGT) limits -- Engine models should not be compared by EGT fuels -- Military fuels -- Commercial fuels -- Lubricants -- Trimming P&W axial flow compressor engines -- Turbine engine noise -- Sound and noise -- Jet engine noise control -- Ear protection for maintenance personnel -- Turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan characteristics -- Advantages and disadvantages of the turbojet -- Turboprop characteristics -- The turboprop propeller -- The turbofan engine --
Section VI -- Gas turbine engine performance -- Definitions and symbols -- Aerodynamics -- Aerodynamic lift and drag -- Density and specific weight -- Mass and specific heat -- Thermodynamics -- Cycles -- Delta and theta -- The use of delta and theta in practice -- Reynolds number effects -- Mach number -- Laws governing energy exchanges -- Basic internal aerodynamics and thermodynamics -- Air and its behaviour -- The aircraft inlet duct -- Compressor -- Combustion chambers -- Turbines -- Jet nozzle -- How the gas turbine works -- Gas turbine engine performance analysis -- General considerations -- In-service engines -- On a test stand -- Engine in aircraft, static on the ground -- Engine in aircraft, in flight -- Prototype or flight test engines -- Component performance details -- Engine air inlet duct -- Compressor -- Burners and turbines -- Jet nozzle and turbofan fan-outlets -- Afterburner -- Accessories -- Airbleed -- Temperature conversion table -- Relative temperature table -- Relative pressure table -- Index
Section II -- Gas turbine engine terms -- Airspeed, mach number, and knots -- Energy and efficiency -- Engine station designations -- Equivalent shaft horsepower (turboprops only) -- Gas generator -- Letters and symbols -- Percent rpm -- Pressure, pressure measurement and pressure ration -- Pressure measurement -- Pressure ratio -- Specific fuel consumption -- Thrust specific fuel consumption -- Equivalent specific fuel consumption -- Standard atmospheric conditions -- Standard day -- Subsonic, sonic and supersonic gas flow -- Diffusers and diffusion -- Temperature, heat, temperature measurement, and temperature ratio -- Temperature and heat -- Temperature measurement -- Static and total temperature -- Temperature ratio --
Section III -- Gas turbine engine components -- Air inlet duct -- General -- Single entrance duct -- Blow-in doors -- Divided entrance duct -- Variable geometry duct for supersonic aircraft -- Turboprop air inlets and reduction gearing -- Compressor inlet screens and air particle separators -- Engine air inlet section -- Turbofan engine fan sections -- Compressors -- Centrifugal compressors -- Axial compressors -- Dual axial compressors -- Compressor surge and compressor airbleed -- Variable-angle compressor stators -- Diffuser section and airbleed -- Fuel manifolds and nozzles -- Burner section -- Combustion chambers -- Can type burner and multiple combustion chamber -- Annular combustion chamber -- Can annular combustion chamber -- Annular combustion chamber -- Burner smoke reduction -- Turbines -- Turbine cooling -- Exhaust ducts -- Conventional convergent exhaust nozzle -- Convergent-divergent exhaust nozzle -- Thrust reversers -- Jet noise suppressors -- Afterburners -- Afterburner duct -- Engines with duct heaters -- Afterburner operation -- Afterburner exhaust nozzle -- Afterburner nozzle control unit -- Special features -- Accessories -- Airbleed-driven accessories -- Mechanically driven accessories -- Starters -- Air-turbine starters -- Combustion starters -- Cartridge-pneumatic starters -- Fuel systems and fuel controls -- The basic fuel system -- Fuel pump -- Emergency of manual fuel system -- Pressurizing and dump valve -- Afterburner fuel system and fuel control -- Afterburner emergency shutoff valve -- Afterburner igniter -- Water injection and the fuel system -- Fuel control -- Fuel control levers -- Fuel control functions and characteristics -- Turboprop and turboshaft engine fuel controls (and propeller governors for turboprops) -- Lubrication systems -- Ignition systems -- Igniter plugs -- Engine cooling -- Water injection -- Protection against icing -- Compressor inlet anti-icing: centrifugal compressor engines -- Compressor inlet anti-icing: axial flow compressor engines -- Compressor inlet anti-icing: turboprop and turboshaft engines -- Fuel-deicing systems --
Section IV -- Gas turbine engine operation -- Engine ratings -- Centrifugal compressor engines -- Axial flow compressor commercial engines -- Axial flow compressor military engines -- Engine instrumentation -- Engine thrust indication -- Instrumentation for measuring thrust (and power for turboprops) -- Engine controls and indicator lights -- Before starting an engine -- Engine starting -- Takeoff -- Climb and cruise -- Descent, approach, and Landing -- Engine shutdown -- Turboprop operation -- Emergencies and malfunctions -- Engine maintenance -- Engine condition monitoring --
Section V -- Engine operational characteristics -- Cleaning engine air passages -- Compressor surge -- Engine inlet anti-icing -- Thrust setting, ratings and limits -- Engine rating time limits -- Exhaust gas temperature -- The exhaust gas temperature (EGT) limits -- Engine models should not be compared by EGT fuels -- Military fuels -- Commercial fuels -- Lubricants -- Trimming P&W axial flow compressor engines -- Turbine engine noise -- Sound and noise -- Jet engine noise control -- Ear protection for maintenance personnel -- Turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan characteristics -- Advantages and disadvantages of the turbojet -- Turboprop characteristics -- The turboprop propeller -- The turbofan engine --
Section VI -- Gas turbine engine performance -- Definitions and symbols -- Aerodynamics -- Aerodynamic lift and drag -- Density and specific weight -- Mass and specific heat -- Thermodynamics -- Cycles -- Delta and theta -- The use of delta and theta in practice -- Reynolds number effects -- Mach number -- Laws governing energy exchanges -- Basic internal aerodynamics and thermodynamics -- Air and its behaviour -- The aircraft inlet duct -- Compressor -- Combustion chambers -- Turbines -- Jet nozzle -- How the gas turbine works -- Gas turbine engine performance analysis -- General considerations -- In-service engines -- On a test stand -- Engine in aircraft, static on the ground -- Engine in aircraft, in flight -- Prototype or flight test engines -- Component performance details -- Engine air inlet duct -- Compressor -- Burners and turbines -- Jet nozzle and turbofan fan-outlets -- Afterburner -- Accessories -- Airbleed -- Temperature conversion table -- Relative temperature table -- Relative pressure table -- Index
Media/Materials
Physical description
xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Edition
Reprinted with revisions
Other title
P&W Oper. Instr. 200
Part No. P&W 182408
Part No. P&W 182408
Credit line
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. 1982. The aircraft gas turbine engine and its operation: support services, PUB-2020-6.1. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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