The paper reports on investigation and development of a flywheel device intended for an energy storage prototype. The goal was to design and experimentally verify the concept of self-integrated flywheel with smart control of energy flow and accumulation. The Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) must has high energy efficiency and structural robustness. Investigation on structural dynamics of the composite flywheel connected with outer type rotor was carried out using Finite Element Method. The FESS is designed to run in vacuum and is supported on low-energy, controlled, active magnetic bearings (AMBs). The flywheel device of 10 MJ energy density and a weight of 150 kg with two integrated rotors/generators of 50 kW power density each is intended to operate up to 40 000 rpm.
This article contains a description of the work carried out under the UDA-POIG 01.03.01-14-071/09-10 project titled "A turbine engine with a detonation chamber". The work carried out during the project involved 14 construction, research and calculation tasks. Various research stands designed to analyse the process of mixture formation, initiation of detonation and research of rotating detonation in combustion chambers were constructed. Test stand for examining a turboshaft engine with detonation combustion chamber was built. Those test stands allowed powering the combustion chambers and the engine with both liquid and gaseous fuels, simultaneously or separately. At the same time, REFLOPS software, which could calculate the propagation of a detonation wave was created, and used in the design of further versions of combustion chambers. Data from the experiments was used to verify the calculations and models created in the mentioned software. GTD-350 engine was used as the base; the structure of which (combustion chamber situated outside the turbine-compressor unit) facilitated modifying the shape of the detonation combustion chamber. During the research, great emphasis was placed on the safety of researchers. Working with hydrogen in high temperatures and JET-A1 fuel, which was additionally heated, and the usage of the oxy-acetylene detonators forced extreme caution, and full compliance with developed procedures. The project was divided into 14 tasks that were often conducted simultaneously in a 20-person team implementing the project. The work was completed by performing comparative studies between conventional engine with deflagration combustion chamber, and modified engine with a detonation combustion chamber. During the completion of the project, it was the first working demonstrator engine with detonation combustion chamber in the world.
Integrated rocket ramjet engine is adapted to aircraft propulsion and supersonic missiles moving at the speed of 8 Ma. The engine's construction enables flexibly benefit from both types of drive depending on the conditions of the flight. The ejector mode of operation applicable to Mach numbers smaller than 2 cooperate with the rocket engine positioned in flow channel. Secondary air stream enters the engine through the convergent divergent nozzle and supplies the air to the ejector and booster. Rocket engine using the ejector effect would be used only in the phase of accelerating an object to the supersonic speed and then the drive would gradually shift to ramjet. The range of speed for the ramjet mode is 2-6 Mach. The prototype of the rocket ramjet engine of over 1300 N is equipped with annular combustion chamber in which phenomena of rotating detonation as well as the aero spike nozzle were used. Both the test stand as well as the engine is adapted to trials suitable to the conditions of a flight at the speed of 1.4 Ma. The test stand is powered by compress air coming from the instalment set up in the earth test bed and by oxygen and methane at a pressure of 10 bar. The rig is designed for functional tests of prototype, areas of the creation of mixture of firearms used to measuring and the range of stable functioning of the engine in the ramjet mode. Moreover, the measured parameters in gas supply installations as well as the temperature and pressure in the combustion chamber and thrust created by integrated rocket ramjet engine are measured.
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