{"id":195486,"date":"2008-07-06T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/06\/ge-patents-pulse-detonation-core-for-turbofan\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T12:10:00","slug":"ge-patents-pulse-detonation-core-for-turbofan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/06\/ge-patents-pulse-detonation-core-for-turbofan\/","title":{"rendered":"GE Patents Pulse Detonation Core for Turbofan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this is a good idea, it seems to me that this is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/graham-warwick\/2008\/03\/ge-patents-pulsedetonation-cor.html\">pretty obvious idea<\/a>,  using a PDE, or more than one to smooth out the pulses, as a substitute for the HP compressor, HP turbine, and combustors.<\/p>\n<p>After the PDE works as its own compressor and combuster, though a PDE, a constant volume combustion, is theoretically more efficient than a combustor, which is constant pressure combustion.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;After a quick examination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=OJynAAAAEBAJ&amp;dq=7,328,570\">the patent<\/a>, it appears that some of the PDEs actually rotate, which is not obvious, at least not to me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/323917096.jpg\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/323917146.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/323917177.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this is a good idea, it seems to me that this is also a pretty obvious idea, using a PDE, or more than one to smooth out the pulses, as a substitute for the HP compressor, HP turbine, and combustors. After the PDE works as its own compressor and combuster, though a PDE, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1191,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-patent","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}