The Combustion Gas Turbine: Its History, Development, and Prospects
- 1 June 1939
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- Vol. 141 (1) , 197-222
- https://doi.org/10.1243/pime_proc_1939_141_033_02
Abstract
By “combustion gas turbine” is meant a turbine actuated by the steady flow of the products of a continuous combustion under pressure in a combustion chamber. Inventors appear to have been at work on the gas turbine since 1791, the original attractions of the proposal being its simplicity and the elimination of the reciprocating motion of the early steam engines. Simplicity remains the principal advantage of the gas turbine, though the first applications have been made possible by the needs of special chemical processes, such as the Houdry cracking process. The efficiency attainable under present conditions is 17–18 per cent, but this would be increased to 23 per cent if the gas inlet temperature could be raised from 1,000 to 1,300 deg. F. The proposed new fields of application of the gas turbine include locomotive and marine propulsion, blast furnace plants, and the power supply for wind tunnels.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: