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Airliner jet engines are just gas turbines with a ducted fan in place of the generator, and all the heat exchangers/air filters stripped. Well, at least some po
by namibj 5y ago
Airliner jet engines are just gas turbines with a ducted fan in place of the generator, and all the heat exchangers/air filters stripped.
Well, at least some power plant gas turbines share the power core with airplane turbofan engines. Technically they likely differ somewhat in the power turbine, as jet thrust from the exhaust is wasted on the ground and thus they try to extract more of the exhaust's power than for a plane, where it's a trade-off between turbine/fan weight and fuel efficiency from essentially gearing the exhaust velocity down to barely above flight speed (having double the exhaust velocity costs 4x the power but only gives 2x the thrust).