Valveless Pulse Jet in Vehicles
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: Asst .Prof. Mr.VISHNU .A
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BIBIN WILLIAM
MOHAMMED SHIHAS
MOHAMMED RAZEEN
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What is Project PulseJet?
Project Pulse Jet
is an analytical study of how a pulse-jet engine works.
Our Goals
To design, build a pulse-jet engine.
Plan of Action
Research and design a prototype of a pulse-jet engine.
Build the prototype based on our design in a manned
vehicle.
History of the pulsejet
The pulsejet engine was first invented in the early 1900 by a Swedish inventor
Martin Wiberg
Paul Schmidt, who engineered the first production pulsejet during the Second
World War with his flying bomb, the Argus V1.
Nicknamed the buzz bomb because of the low hum it admitted during flight.
Used by the Germans to bomb London from 1944-1945
Over 9,000 V-1 were fired on England during WW2
The pulsejet took a backseat in the engineering world when the turbofan jet
engine was invented
Has returned to the engineering scene as
of late because of the interest in
Pulse Detonation Engines (PDE).
How does it work?
A pulsejet engine is a very simple jet engine consisting of very little
to no moving parts. The combustion cycle comprises five or six
phases: Induction, Compression, (in some engines) Fuel Injection,
Ignition, Combustion, and Exhaust.
The rapidly expanding gasses exit out of the engine and as this
happens a vacuum is created in the combustion chamber which
pulls in a fresh new air charge fro m the atmosphere, and then the
whole cycle repeats itself.
Combustion Cycle
Types of Pulse Jets
There are two basic types of pulsejets.
valve or traditional pulsejet
valve-less pulsejet.
The Argus V1 Schmidt was a valve pulsejet
Most of the development work for the valve-less engines are done by
two American engineers Lockwood and Hiller.
Types of Valves
Petal
High Efficiency Petal
Valve Grid
Design Research
The Lenoir cycle is an idealized
thermodynamic cycle often used to model
a pulse-jet engine.
Comprises of 3 cycles:
Heat added at constant volume.
Adiabatic Expansion.
Exhaust of the hot gasses at a
constant pressure.
Thrust can be directly calibrated on the
basis that
the cycle is completed over two working
strokes.
Design Research
C.E. Tharratt
Discovered a surprising result that the ratio of duct
volume to effective length had a linear relationship to
the maximum static thrust or:
V/L = 0.00316F
This relationship has been compared to all known
pulse-jets from the large V-1 flying bomb of over 500
lb. thrust to the miniature Dyna-jets of 4-5 lbs. thrust.
Thrust = 2.2 x Cross-Sectional area or F = 2.2A
Sample Calculations
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Pulse-Jet Body Design
Pulse-Jet Body Exploded
Taper
Combustion
Chamber
Exhaust Pipe
Valveless
Design Matrix for valves
Ranked on a 1 to 10 scale (1 being the worst and 10
being
theEFFICIENCY
best) MACHINABILITY FUNCTIONALITY WEIGHT AESTETICS TOTALS
COST
Valve-less
10
10
10
10
39
Petal Valve
40
High
Efficiency
Petal Valve
42
Valve grid
10
31
Building and Testing
Materials
Pulse-Jets Main body.
Rolled and seem welded using 0.063 Stainless
Steel Sheet Metal.
Stainless Selected because of its higher resistance to
heat then mild steel.
Combustion Chamber Drawing
Fuel and Fuel Delivery
Fuel
Propane
Easily obtained.
Boiling Point below room temperature.
Being a gas allows for easier starting.
Fuel Delivery System
Propane Tank
Propane lines
Gas Fitting Nozzle
Needle Valve
Testing
Prototype will be tested to verify thrust output.
Test Stand will be constructed to secure PulseJet safely.
Digital scale will be attached to frame to
calculate thrust
Budget
Stainless steel sheet metal, with labor: 8000
Propane Tank: 2000
Fuel Delivery System: 200 on hand
Instrumentation: 0 on hand
Test stand material: 0 on hand
Fuel: 2500
Total: 12700
Projects Future
Continue testing on prototype to gain further
knowledge of its operating cycle.
Construct larger Jet using the knowledge
gained from this smaller prototype.
Use larger engine to power to propel a
manned vehicle.
Bibliography
Simpson Bruce The Enthusiasts'
Guide to Pulsejet Engines
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/
http://www.zachmiers.com/pulsejetbo
ok/
http://www.pulse-jets.com/
Roy, Gabriel Combustion processes in
propulsion control, noise, and pulse
detonation