THE GAS TURBINE ENGINE JET ENGINE SHELL OIL COMPANY FILM MD74782

Created by the Shell Oil Company as a public service, this wonderful film explains the operation and mechanics of a gas turbine engine, and show modern jet and turboprop engines in use in the aviation industry. Includes terrific views of early types of jet engines and components including compressors, fans, combustion chambers, and so on. At the 13 minute mark a variety of other uses for the turbine engine are shown including for power generation, fire fighting, marine propulsion, gas turbine locomotives, and more. A prototype gas turbine car known as the Firebird is also shown at the 13:30 mark, probably at the Motorama, and at 15:40.
The General Motors Firebird is a quartet of prototype cars designed by Harley Earl, and engineered by General Motors for the 1953, 1956 and 1959 Motorama auto shows. They were very much inspired by innovations in fighter aircraft design at the time. None of the designs were intended for production, but instead were to showcase the extremes in technology and design that General Motors was able to achieve. The cars were recently placed on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and still make regular car show appearances.
The name "Firebird" was also used by the Pontiac division of General Motors for the line of pony cars, which has no direct relation to the concept cars.
The film includes footage of the prototype Boeing 707 aircraft in flight at the 15:30 mark.
The Wood River, Illinois facility of Shell Oil is also shown at the 15 minute mark, where jet fuels were exhaustively studied.
A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of internal combustion engine. It has an upstream rotating compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in between.
The basic operation of the gas turbine is similar to that of the steam power plant except that air is used instead of water. Fresh atmospheric air flows through a compressor that brings it to higher pressure. Energy is then added by spraying fuel into the air and igniting it so the combustion generates a high-temperature flow. This high-temperature high-pressure gas enters a turbine, where it expands down to the exhaust pressure, producing a shaft work output in the process. The turbine shaft work is used to drive the compressor and other devices such as an electric generator that may be coupled to the shaft. The energy that is not used for shaft work comes out in the exhaust gases, so these have either a high temperature or a high velocity. The purpose of the gas turbine determines the design so that the most desirable energy form is maximized. Gas turbines are used to power aircraft, trains, ships, electrical generators, or even tanks.
Airbreathing jet engines are gas turbines optimized to produce thrust from the exhaust gases, or from ducted fans connected to the gas turbines. Jet engines that produce thrust from the direct impulse of exhaust gases are often called turbojets, whereas those that generate thrust with the addition of a ducted fan are often called turbofans or (rarely) fan-jets.
Gas turbines are also used in many liquid propellant rockets, the gas turbines are used to power a turbopump to permit the use of lightweight, low pressure tanks, which saves considerable dry mass.
Turboprop engines[edit]
A turboprop engine is a type of turbine engine which drives an external aircraft propeller using a reduction gear. Turboprop engines are generally used on small subsonic aircraft, but some large military and civil aircraft, such as the Airbus A400M, Lockheed L-188 Electra and Tupolev Tu-95, have also used turboprop power.
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[@txmike1945]

Ha! I used to work with the guy, Jim, at 14:22 into the video. That lab in Wood River was my first job as a summer student in 1968. The video brings back great memories.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

No way!

[@txmike1945]

@@PeriscopeFilm Way! I am a retired chemist, I worked in that lab 1968 through 1973. Regarding fuels you may recall famous WW2 aviator Jimmie Doolittle, a Shell guy who was instrumental in the development of high octane Avgas that gave the USA fighter plans a performance edge.

[@sixstringedthing]

It's a cool story to begin with, but the "No way!"...."Way!" exchange just made my night. Thanks :)

[@conspiracyscholor7866]

@@txmike1945 Do you have any book recommendations? Chemistry interests me.

[@txmike1945]

@@conspiracyscholor7866 I don't think anyone actually reads a book anymore. Start with this half hour Chemistry introduction. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWTVg6Wibq9lfJY If that interests you branch out to the specialty areas of chemistry, Organic, Inorganic, Physical, and Analytical. To find U-tube videos on those do U-tube searches like "basics of organic chemistry" or "basics of Physical Chemistry" and you will find plenty to pique your interest.

[@karlerikselvig2310]

Year 1903: A Norwegian, Ægidius Elling, was able to build the first gas turbine that was able to produce more power than needed to run its own components, which was considered an achievement in a time when knowledge about aerodynamics was limited. Using rotary compressors and turbines it produced 11 hp (massive for those days). His work was later used by Sir Frank Whittle.

[@gregtaylor6146]

Thank you Sir Frank Whittle.

[@gwenyfred1743]

This movie should have available during my training, very well explained and simple to understand 👍

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

Someone had fo animate all this stuff hand. Mad mad respect for whoever did such a good job with these animations, they are so clean, intuitive, and simple.

[@davewitter6565]

I liked the fan for the compressor and the windmill analogy for the turbine.

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

I agree 👍

[@BrassLock]

In 1949 the Rover Car Company built several models of gas turbines for its "Rover Jet 1". Later in 1952 the Austin Motor Company built experimental gas turbines for the "Austin Princess" at its Longbridge Research Facility. Neither of these English cars went into regular car production due to high fuel consumption when compared to reciprocal engines. Wikipedia has lots of historical details about these remarkable developments from over seventy years ago when British engineering took Sir Frank Whittle's invention of the jet engine in 1930, a number of steps further. _Its an omission on the part of Shell Films to forget these historical facts._

[@marc-andrebrunet5386]

I love these videos🤘👨‍🏫👍 The turbo jet engine for cars at the end !!!

[@davidthelander1299]

I work in the Texas oil field. I always thought a good use of gas turbines would be to use the waste gas that is currently just burned up as a flare. Use it to produce electricity instead, using a small gas turbine. Of course I’m sure millions of others have thought of this, so I guess not practical. Cost, longevity of the gas turbines, noise, etc.

[@EddieVBlueIsland]

The trouble is to store for transport the energy produced, it must be cheaper and more compact than transporting the gas itself.

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

It’s definitely a good and logical thought, but the problem is that the waste gas is often inconsistent in composition, and contains way to much crap for efficient combustion. That being said, even inefficient combustion would still be less wasteful than just flaring it. Using waste gas directly in a gas turbine would be hard on the engine and quite maintenance intensive, possibly a better use it would be in a steam turbine generator.

[@herrakaarme]

I have never understood why it's not used, just flared. Seems like such a waste of good energy. Maybe the composition is inconsistent, but that's hardly something engineers couldn't sort out and deal with. I suppose the reason is too cheap energy prices to bother, and in more remote locations, the lack of power lines to transport the energy as electricity.

[@kdrapertrucker]

Back in the 1960s Ford had a fully operational concept truck they called big red that used a Ford Designed gas turbine. It was used for many years and is now owned by a private collector. Several years back Peterbilt built a concept electric hybrid semi truck that used a micro gas turbine to run a generator to charge the batteries.it ran much cleaner then diesel.

[@marctronixx]

this is my favorite periscope opener...

[@BPJJohn]

ah yes, the Gas Turban.

[@markm737]

Ah gas turbans 👳‍♀️ 👏

[@kuldeepsankpal6443]

Watching this videos makes me feel like 'i am time traveler'

[@jimmyohara2601]

We are ALL time travelers, dopey. 😐🤐

[@davidthelander1299]

I believe our main battle tank uses a gas turbine.

[@kdrapertrucker]

M1 Abrams battle tank uses gas turbines, as do the old Spruance class destroyers, the Ticonderoga class cruisers, and the Arleigh Burke class destroyers also use gas turbines.

[@cacarotocacimbinha2905]

Very goo explan

[@user-jq4lr8jq1i]

shellのハイオク良いぞ～これ

[@ScDMiller1]

🤔 Good educational film; showing the basics of the gas turbine. 📽 Indianapolis has, or at least had a place that built gas turbines. Was called Allison, now Rolls Royce.? Anyway, our power company is turning to gas turbines (& renewables) for more of its power generation. ✈🚀⚡ (no tubine emojis 🙃)

[@andyharman3022]

Yes. I worked at Allison back in the 1980's. Rolls-Royce bought it in the 1990's.

[@BrassLock]

@@andyharman3022 Is that one of the rare occurrences of a British company buying an American company? Usually it's the reverse.

[@kenmore01]

Scott Miller I always wondered how to use the upside down smiley face. Good one! 😃

[@rowanmoormann9532]

Just Like the Utillah.., The UtTillAh..,

[@peterparker9286]

Looks like the Bishop the Gas Turbine... the shape of the inner chamber.... from Heavy oil to Hi Octane fuel it will burn...

[@lelonfurr1200]

GRANETELLI SHOWED the world in 69 at indianapolis

[@andyharman3022]

1967 and 1968. USAC outlawed gas turbines after that. In 1969 Andy Granatelli's car won the Indy 500 powered by a turbocharged 4-cam Ford.

[@jagboy69]

What I wanna know is why my watery turbine oil so damn expensive?? A quart of oil is over 20bucks!

[@brucewelty7684]

And Still 50years later auto traffic has not embraced turbines. Heat? noise?

[@paulsawczyc5019]

Chrysler made one - too much wind and noise.

[@hangonsnoop]

They aren't efficient for automotive applications.

[@ScDMiller1]

Imagine "smoking '(?) someone behind you, when you step on the gas; because he was fallowing you too closely in traffic! 😃

[@ScDMiller1]

I would sure rack up my Speedy rewards points fast!⭐⛽

[@alexcostanzo5134]

Bad fuel efficiency at low speeds.

[@kenc3288]

Turbine not turbin.

[@txmike1945]

Reminds me of the word 'caramel.' Some pronounce it 'care-uh-mell' while others say 'carr-muhl'. Very few people in the business say 'turr-bine'.

[@bac1111967]

I'm sure that display was a Rolls Royce Dart engine. It looked like one,

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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