{"id":198998,"date":"2007-09-19T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/hybrid-pde-turbine-engine\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T04:10:00","slug":"hybrid-pde-turbine-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/hybrid-pde-turbine-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid PDE-turbine engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/09\/14\/216816\/ge-tests-experimental-hybrid-pde-turbine-engine.html\">GE is bench testing the concept<\/a>, which basically involves using a pulse detonation engine (PDE) in place of the high pressure turbine.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, a PDE is a pulse jet, like that of the V-1 &#8220;Buzz Bomb&#8221;, but instead of igniting the fuel normally, where the flame front front progresses at subsonic speeds, it detonates the fuel (the flame front moves at supersonic speeds).<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve read mostly is its potential to replace high speed turbojets, but this shows that it could be applied to civil high bypass engines by replacing the HP compressor and turbine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GE is bench testing the concept, which basically involves using a pulse detonation engine (PDE) in place of the high pressure turbine. Basically, a PDE is a pulse jet, like that of the V-1 &#8220;Buzz Bomb&#8221;, but instead of igniting the fuel normally, where the flame front front progresses at subsonic speeds, it detonates the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198998"}],"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=198998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}