Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines: Current State and Potential for Emissions Reduction
Summary
This chapter provides a technical overview of aircraft gas turbine engines (turbofans and turboprops), which power virtually all commercial aircraft designed in the last 40 years. It discusses the current state of the art in aircraft engine technology and examines the potential for and constraints on improving gas turbine engines to reduce carbon emissions from commercial aviation.
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· 3 pulledAll commercial aircraft designed in the last 40 years (other than aircraft with fewer than a dozen passengers) are powered by gas turbine engines, either turbofan or turboprop.
Any discussion of reducing carbon emissions from commercial aircraft will need to consider the potential for improvement of gas turbine engines.
This chapter will delineate the current state of the art of aircraft engines, discuss the potential for and constraints on gas turbine improvement
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