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Air Breathing Engines (Scramjet) : Presented by Dhanaraj.J.Kamble

Scramjet engines operate on the same principles as ramjets but can sustain supersonic combustion. Scramjets work by collecting oxygen from the air for combustion of hydrogen fuel, allowing takeoff from runways without onboard oxygen. Key components include supersonic inlets, combustion chambers where fuel ignites the compressed air, and nozzles that exhaust gases to produce thrust over Mach 12-24. Nations are working to develop this technology for missiles, aircraft, and space access vehicles by 2025.

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Air Breathing Engines (Scramjet) : Presented by Dhanaraj.J.Kamble

Scramjet engines operate on the same principles as ramjets but can sustain supersonic combustion. Scramjets work by collecting oxygen from the air for combustion of hydrogen fuel, allowing takeoff from runways without onboard oxygen. Key components include supersonic inlets, combustion chambers where fuel ignites the compressed air, and nozzles that exhaust gases to produce thrust over Mach 12-24. Nations are working to develop this technology for missiles, aircraft, and space access vehicles by 2025.

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AIR BREATHING ENGINES

( scramjet)

PRESENTED BY

DHANARAJ.J.KAMBLE
Mechanical department
G E C Haveri 581110
USN :- 2GO13ME008
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

SCRAMJET AIR BREATHING ENGINE

DESIGNING PRINCIPLE

WORKING

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCRAMJET & JET ENGINES

CONCLUSION

REFERENCE
Scramjet engines operate on the same principles as ramjets

Hydrogen-fuelled, horizontal take off, Doesn't need on board


oxygen.

 Thease air-breathing engines can take-off from any


conventional airport.

Nation working for this technology:-


USA(X-43A), INDIA(AVATAR), RUSSIA(XB-70)…
 Variation of a ramjet with supersonic combustion.
 Top speed of a scramjet engine(without additional oxidizer
input)vary between Mach 12 and Mach 24.
 main difference from a rocket ,it collects O2 from the air to
burn its fuel.
DESIGNING
PRINCIPLE
 INLET
• The air approaches at supersonic speed into the inlet .
• The air is heated due to compression.
• The hot air is then let into the combustion chamber.

 COMBUSTION CHAMBER
• Fuel is sprayed on the hot air in the combustion chamber.
• Dissociation of fuel takes place which increases the
temperature of the air.
• The whole combustion process takes place at supersonic
speeds.
• The ignited fuel along with the air is sent into the nozzle for
exhaustion.
 NOZZLE
• The gases are gushed out through the nozzle.
• The release of the gases produces forward thrust.
• The thrust produced exceeds the drag , which is the cause
for forward motion.

FIG: working of engine .


 Current scramjet technology requires the use of high-energy fuels
and active cooling schemes to maintain sustained operation
 The kinetic energy of the free stream air entering the scramjet
engine is large
 To keep the combustion rate of the fuel constant, the pressure and
temperature in the engine must also be constant
 A scramjet cannot produce efficient thrust unless boosted to high
speed(Mach 5).
 Demonstrating these technologies, along with additional ground-
and flight-test experiments, will pave the way for affordable and
reusable air breathing hypersonic propulsion systems such as
missiles, long range aircraft and space-access vehicles around 2010,
2015, 2025, respectively by all nations.
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Propulsion and Power, Volume 17, No. 6, November-December 2001.
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AIAA 1st Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 1964. AIAA Paper 64-243.
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Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 3, Issue 1, January
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9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_X-43.

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