| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 151, 2018
2017 Asia Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ACMAE 2017)
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| Article Number | 02002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Aeronautical Machinery Equipment and Powerplant | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815102002 | |
| Published online | 21 February 2018 | |
Comparison of Efficiency of Conventional Shaped Circular and Elliptical Shaped Combustor
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Aeronautical Engineering, Tagore Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 600127, India
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Undergraduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering. SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu - 603203, India
There have been concerted efforts towards improving the fuel efficiency of the jet engines in the past, with an aim of reducing the incomplete combustion. The process of combustion in a jet engine takes place in the combustor. A study was conducted for enhancement of air-fuel mixing process by computational analysis of an elliptically shaped combustor for a gas turbine engine. The results of computational analysis of an elliptical shape combustor were compared with a circular shape combustor used in gas turbine engines with a identical cross sectional area. The comparison of the computationally derived parameters of the two combustors i.e. temperature, pressure, and velocity are studied and analyzed. The study intends towards the comparison of the combustion efficiencies of the circular and elliptically shaped combustors. The combustion efficency of elliptical chamber is found to be 98.72% at the same time it was observed 56.26% in case of circular type combustor.
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