If I was succesful, there should be a schematic from the Chrysler

turbine

car progam of 40 years ago. Turbine exhaust has an excess amount of

thermal

energy, at a high tem.p If you extract heat from this exhaust and

introduce

it
after the compressor, ....

.... but what a neat

200hp engine that would have been! Vance

This engine was way too bulky for an aircraft. It consumed all the under

hood

space of a large car. A 400 HP V8 would be half the volume and get much

better

mileage. Regen turbines are widely used in power plants. If they were

practical

in aircraft they would be in aircraft :) I think they are also used in
the M1 Abrams main battle tank.

--
Paul Lamar

Okay I got it!

Pretty much all turbine proposals or prototypes from any carmaker  have this
system. I believe the Rover turbines where the only ones ever to reach
market.....

Thomas J.

 
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