• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.27-32
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• 2012

Gas turbines for an aircraft have the start and restart capabilities within their flight envelop. It is an important item for engine qualification and substantiated with the test. Experimental investigations were carried out to find the relation between the corrected torque and the corrected rotating speed of an air turbine starter in this study. A dedicated air supply system for the air turbine starter and a special device to measure the torque and the rotating speed of the air turbine starter were developed and installed at the altitude engine test facility in Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Experimental results show that the relations between the corrected torque and the corrected rotating speed of the air turbine starter are linear and the inlet temperature and pressure conditions for the air turbine starter were found out to provide minimum required torque for the engine qualification test at various altitude. The start and restart tests for the currently developing engine were successfully performed using this experimental results.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.567-571
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• 2011

Air Starter motors are used for the start of medium-speed diesel engine. One of the main part of air starting motors is the axial turbine stage. In this study, design of 1-stage axial type turbine for 14kw class air starter motors has been performed. The turbine blade was designed based on mean-line analysis. 1-D design calculation and numerical analysis with CFD were conducted iteratively. The validation between 1-D design method and numerical analysis for axial clearance has been performed. It revealed that there is optimum axial clearance of turbine design.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.18-24
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• 2017

Appropriate selection of the starter is essential for successful starting of the gas-turbine engine. Thus, aerodynamic drag during starting phase should be analyzed to assess the feasibility of the starter. In this paper, aerodynamic drag is modeled based on the speed profile from the engine coast down test, and it is scaled with respect to the target engine by comparing the compressor load. Afterward, the govern equation of the starting phase is developed with the torque model of the starter, and the design scheme to select the feasible starter will be finally suggested. The proposed model of starting phase will be useful to perform a preliminary design of the starting system of the gas-turbine engine.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.170-175
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• 2008

In this study, it was investigated that the characteristics of startup and compatibility using several type hot and cold gases. The characteristics of starting LRE by pyro starter was compared with that by a Helium spinner. The compatibility of pyro gas, a gaseous Helium, Hydrogen+Nitrogen mixture gas, and air was investigated by a simple 1D turbine analysis considered the properties of each gas and turbine efficiency. Most of them were compatible to start up the LRE however air was properly used only for low power mode of turbine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.216-220
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• 2006

In this study, it was investigated that the characteristics of startup and compatibility using several type hot and cold gases. The characteristics of starting LRE by pyro starter was compared with that by a He spinner. The compatibility of pyre gas, a gaseous He, H2+N2 mixture gas, and air was investigated by a simple 1D turbine analysis considered the properties of each gases and turbine efficiency. Most of them were compatible to start up the LRE but air was properly used only when the turbine was low power mode.