Timeline for Can a jet engine benefit from nitrous oxide boost?
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| Aug 16, 2023 at 20:05 | comment | converted from answer | Jim | Several answers have mentioned injecting water into the engine. Th injection of water is not so much to lower temperatures, but to increase the density of the air moving through the engine. The denser the air the higher the trust on turbojet engines. I worked on KC135a and B52g aircraft in the USAF, both used water injection on take off. if the water ran out during take off, they had a difficult time getting into the air, especially on a hot summer day when the air density was low due to low humidity. | |
| Feb 19, 2020 at 23:51 | comment | added | Max Power | Adding nitrous to an afterburner is literally just making a rocket. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 9:13 | comment | added | Penguin | Well, the turbine inlet temp is always higher than the compressor exit temp, otherwise we have put no fuel in the engine, but compressor exit temps can get very high, and sometimes the last stages of the compressor uses different materials than the earlier stages so they can handle those conditions. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 13:41 | comment | added | user3528438 | I remember for a few high speed applications, e.g. sr71, the limitations sometimes is compressor temperature. | |
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| Aug 6, 2017 at 11:29 | history | answered | Penguin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |