How much does a new engine for a 787 cost?
MolaKule Q&A on Aircraft Structures VII Engines
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All that are the offerings.
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Good grief man just scroll down to:
https://thepointsguy.com/airline/powering-the-dreamliner-how-the-787s-genx-engines-work/
"Creating Thrust
The GEnx is a massive bit of kit. The front rotating fan measures 9.2 ft across. The whole engine weighs 13,200 lb and can produce 76,100 pounds of thrust (a pound of thrust is equal to a force able to accelerate one pound of material 32 feet per second per second.)Let's break that down: 32 feet per second is the same as the force of gravity — 9.8m/s². Therefore, if an engine could produce 2.2 pounds of thrust, it could accelerate a one-kilogram block at 9.8m/s². At the maximum thrust which the GEnx can generate, it can accelerate a 76,100-pound block at the same rate. Pretty powerful indeed.
And how much does all this cost? Just a casual $28 million.
This all sounds really impressive, but how exactly is this massive force created? It comes down to four distinct parts that can be described with four verbs: suck, squeeze, bang and blow.'
I guess those are the cheap ones? I saw some jet engine prices into the 50 and up to 100 million range, when I hunted for such many months ago, never saved the links so? I know some of the small jet engine, parts are very costly. In the late 90's worked on parts that 5 may have fit in a lunch box that cost from 10k to 20 some K for the smitch larger ones. Same type of parts now are likely double that.
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@Cujet "A gas turbine engine runs or self sustains, when we combust fuel, because? It is a very, very simple question, with an incredibly simple answer. But I've seen many engineers misunderstand the basics."
Yes! Now the question I posed is an interesting one, because we need not combust fuel to self sustain the turbomachinery and have a 'running engine'. For example we could inject pressurized air into the combustion chamber to mimic the expansion of combustion. With no added heat what so ever...
...Anybody else want to try and answer my question? I promise the answer is in the picture I posted. Hint, look at the height of the compressor tips vs. the turbine tips. And then think of pressure."
Awaiting your explanation.
Yes! Now the question I posed is an interesting one, because we need not combust fuel to self sustain the turbomachinery and have a 'running engine'. For example we could inject pressurized air into the combustion chamber to mimic the expansion of combustion. With no added heat what so ever...
...Anybody else want to try and answer my question? I promise the answer is in the picture I posted. Hint, look at the height of the compressor tips vs. the turbine tips. And then think of pressure."
Awaiting your explanation.
Because the energy absorbed by the turbine wheel equals or exceeds the energy needed to drive the compressor.
There you go!
In the picture I posted, the turbine blades are larger in area than those of the compressor. Since they both see similar pressures (for this discussion), the turbine produces more torque.
Put another way, as soon as some form of expansion occurs (combustion in the case of a typical gas turbine) the compressor loads the shaft, as does the turbine. One of them must win.
My picture provides a visual example. In the case of more complex engines, the same situation exists, complicated by differences in diameter, blade height, stages and so on.
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