KGT 100

A unique configuration was aimed for, which could be advantageously used as an experimental test carrier. These goals have been fully achieved leading to an exclusive experimental system for aerospace propulsion. The micro gas turbine has been developed with the intention to deliver thrust which can then be measured by an appropriate sensor system. The measurement, the supervision and the display of thermodynamic state variables, for example pressure and temperature as well as performance data such as thrust, mass flow rate and rotational frequency, present the scope of our research. Only with the assumptions derived from such deliberation can the theoretical knowledge, provided in various lectures, be proven practically in an inimitable way. Exactly in this does the presented project differ from already existing micro turbine engine projects and, nevertheless, resemble at the same time commercially produced turbo machines, which are often steered and regulated electronically with the help of the parameters mentioned above.

Furthermore, multiple possibilities for interesting and trendsetting scientific research are given. Among others, an important aspect for future research projects would be the very low cost portion of the kerosene during operation caused by low fuel consumption as well as the possibilities given by the modular construction enabling a quick variation of single process parameters.

Compared to classical university education all important aspects of modern engineering sciences within the project are mediated in an unconventional form. Due to the independent project work, skills like interdisciplinary cooperation, planning, design, calculation, simulation, choice of material, construction, testing, optimization and not the least economic aspects are trained on behalf of a complex technical problem. These issues are also, besides purely theoretical considerations, of special meaning for the improvement of technical university didactics in the engineering apprenticeship.