Sustainability Metrics of a Small Scale Turbojet Engine
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Selcuk Ekici
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Yasin Sohret
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T. Hikmet Karakoc
Abstract
Over the last decade, sustainable energy consumption has attracted the attention of scientists and researchers. The current paper presents sustainability indicators of a small scale turbojet engine, operated on micro-aerial vehicles, for discussion of the sustainable development of the aviation industry from a different perspective. Experimental data was obtained from an engine at full power load and utilized to conduct an exergy-based sustainability analysis. Exergy efficiency, waste exergy ratio, recoverable exergy ratio, environmental effect factor, exergy destruction factor and exergetic sustainability index are evaluated as exergetic sustainability indicators of the turbojet engine under investigation in the current study. The exergy efficiency of the small scale turbojet engine is calculated as 27.25 % whereas the waste exergy ratio, the exergy destruction factor and the sustainability index of the engine are found to be 0.9756, 0.5466 and 0.2793, respectively.
Funding statement: This study has been carried out within the framework of project grant 1407F357, financed by Anadolu University, Turkey.
Acknowledgements
This study has been carried out within the framework of project grant 1407F357, financed by Anadolu University, Turkey. The authors thank both the Anadolu and Suleyman Demirel Universities.
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