INDRA RV25: 240N : Micro Turbojet Engine
Hyderabad-based Raghu Vamsi Machine Tools Private Limited recently launched its fully indigenous Micro Turbojet Engine “INDRA RV25: 240N”.
- INDRA RV25: 240N is a micro turbojet engine.
- It is designed and developed indigenously by Hyderabad-based firm Raghu Vamsi Machine Tools with support from IIT Hyderabad.
- It has primarily been developed for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones.
- The engine has applications in UAVs, air taxis, jetpacks, auxiliary power units, range extenders, and power generation in the future.
- A turbojet engine is a jet engine which produces all of its thrust by ejecting a high-energy gas stream from the engine exhaust nozzle.
- In contrast to a turbofan or bypass engine, 100% of the air entering the intake of a turbojet engine goes through the engine core.
- The component parts of a turbojet engine are the inlet, the gas turbine engine, consisting of a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine, and the exhaust nozzle.
- Air is drawn into the engine through the inlet and compressed and heated by the compressor.
- Fuel is then added to the combustion chamber and ignited.
- The burning fuel adds energy to the exhaust stream by heating and expanding the air.
- Sufficient energy to drive the compressor is extracted from the exhaust stream by the turbine.
