INTRODUCTION

The invention of the gas turbines around twentieth century during the era of Second World

War led to a major breakthrough in the field of prime movers. The absence of the
reciprocating and rubbing members, few balancing problems, exceptionally low lubricating

oil consumption coupled with high power to weight ratio made gas turbines highly reliable.
These inherent advantages of the gas turbines were realized when they were first used for
aircraft propulsion around mid-twentieth century; and ever since gas turbines have

received a special attention by potential mass of engineers and scientists all around the

globe. The gas turbines have been used as the source of power for variety of application
most of which includes stationary power plant application, as propulsion device for marine,

locomotives etc. but the vast portion of the application of gas turbines is found in aircraft

industries. The introduction of the gas turbine as propulsion device in the airplanes have
made air ways highly reliable source of transportation. It is not just the engineers and
scientists who are thrilled by this new highly emerging and developing prime mover but it

has also attracted the attention of the general public who are fascinated by its inherent
advantages, simplicity of construction and high reliability.

OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

Our objective is to construct a working scaled model of a turbojet engine using diesel truck
turbocharger which will be self-sufficient and requiring no separate power sources to

operate thus allowing the unit to be mobile. The turbojet engine project consists of Design,
fabrication, assembly and testing of a Jet Engine, using a large diesel Truck turbocharger.

This project is replica of actual working of the jet engine on a small scale level. The
turbocharger serves as an integrated compressor & turbine assembly which is suitably

manipulated (carefully converted) in to an open cycle constant pressure gas turbine. The
project mainly involves complex modelling, designing and analysis of combustion chamber
using software packages like comsol, mat lab, ANSYS and other related softwares like
AutoCAD, soidworks etc; and then complete fabrication of the same.

LITERATURE REVIEW

The project Design and construction of Jet engine by using automotive turbocharger has

been developed with the help of literatures published by many authors. The project mainly
consists of design and construction techniques for making a scale model of jet engine using
a diesel truck turbocharger. Different sections of this project are referred from topics
published in different books. An overview of theoretical and methodological contribution
to particular topics in the project is given below.

'Thermal Engineering, R.K.Rajput chapter 6 provided base for analysis of Gas turbine cycle.
Numerous problems on real life gas turbine applications provided base for our calculations.

The topic, Design Of Combustion Chamber Of Gas Turbines is extensively based on the

literature called combustion systems published in the book Gas Turbine Theory, most of

the theory of design and development of the combustion chamber of jet engines is taken
from this book.

The design of the exhaust nozzle is based on the topic called Flow in constant area ducts
from the book Fundamentals Of Compressible Flow.

The data for design and selection of the components like gear pumps, induction motors is
taken from the Design Data Book.

The basic theory of gas turbine and jet engines is taken from the book Gas Turbines by V
Ganesan.

The methodologies and techniques of construction have been taken from a number of
websites. The construction of the combustion chamber from rcdon.com was of vital
importance for fabricating the combustor of jet engine.