• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.38-44
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• 2011

The performance experiment was tested for the velocity compound turbine of turbopump which was the main part of 75 ton class liquid rocket engine. The seal is installed between the 1st rotor and the reversing vane to reduce the leakage flow. The turbine outlet pressure of the velocity compound turbine by changing the rotating speed was compared with that of baseline turbine with single rotor including the effect on the total performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.7-11
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• 2011

A velocity-compounded(VC) turbine for the 75ton turbopump was developed as an improved performance backup for the single-rotor baseline turbine. Curvic coupling was adopted for the power transmission between the rotors and shaft. High temperature torsion test and spin test was performed for the curvic coupling design validation. Aerodynamic performance test revealed that VC turbine can generate 20.5% higher specific power than the baseline turbine.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.40-46
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• 2011

A velocity-compounded(VC) turbine of the 75ton turbopump was developed as an improved performance backup for a single-rotor base-line turbine. Curvic coupling was used for the connection between rotors and shaft. High temperature torsion test and spin test was performed for the curvic coupling design validation. Aerodynamic performance test revealed that the developed VC turbine can generate 20.5% higher specific power than the base-line turbine. It has been measured that $1^{st}$ rotor of the subject turbine generates 74.1% of total power at design operating condition.