Gas turbines Gas turbines A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between. (Gas turbine may also refer to just the turbine element.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Gas turbine"
The General Electric LM2500 industrial and marine turboshaft gas turbine is a derivative of GE Aircraft Engines' CF6-6 aircraft engine. The LM2500 is offered in addition to the LM6000. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Electric LM2500"
The General Electric LM6000 is the industrial and marine development of the CF6-80 aircraft turbofan. It has found wide use including fast ferry and high speed cargo ship applications. It has an expanded turbine section to convert thrust into shaft power, and reworked controls packages for power generation. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Electric LM6000"
A jet engine is any engine that accelerates and discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Newton's third law of motion. This broad definition of jet engines includes turbojets, turbofans, rockets and ramjets, but in common usage, the term generally refers to a gas turbine used to produce a jet of high speed exhaust gases for propulsive purposes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jet engine"
The turbofan is a type of airplane engine which has evolved from the axial-flow turbojet engine, essentially by increasing the relative size of the Low Pressure (LP) Compressor to the point where some (or in some cases, most) ...more on Wikipedia about "Turbofan"
Turbojets are the simplest and oldest kind of general purpose jet engine. Two different engineers, Frank Whittle in Britain and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept during the late '30's. Fighter aircraft, fitted with turbojet engines, first entered service in 1944, towards the end of WW2. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turbojet"
A Turboprop (Turbo-propeller) or turboshaft engine is a type of gas turbine engine. It differs from a Turbojet in that the design is optimized to produce rotating shaft power to drive a propeller, instead of thrust from the exhaust gas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turboprop"
Turboshaft engines and jet engines use a gas turbine to produce power. While jet engines use mostly the produced thrust as power, turboshaft engines use the thrust to drive a shaft that provides the power. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turboshaft"
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