This section of the page presents details of the Gluhareff pressure jet, an air breathing engine with no moving parts apart from valves.
The Gluhareff pressure jet is a remarkable engine. It is a pure jet, producing thrust using the standard open Brayton cycle sequence of compression, heat addition by combustion, and expansion.

However, unlike the gas turbine, the work required for compression of the air is not obtained by mechanical work extracted by a turbine in the hot gas stream. Instead, the compression is driven by a Rankine cycle using the propane fuel as the working fluid.

Heat from the exhaust gas is used to vaporize the pressurized liquid fuel. The hot, high pressure propane gas is then expanded through a sonic nozzle into a series of intake ducts, where it entrains and compresses enough air to support approximately stoichiometric combustion.

The three entrainment ducts have specific lengths, which results in acoustical pumping of the air well in excess of the compression achievable by simple momentum exchange between the fuel gas and air.

The engine has no moving parts except for a throttle control valve. In contrast, a gas turbine engine has rapidly rotating, highly stressed components, some of which are operated at the temperature limits of materials for hot oxidizing environments.

The lack of moving parts makes this engine very lightweight and cheap, compared not only to a turbine engine, but even to a mass produced automotive engine. However, the current engine runs hot, has a high frontal area per unit thrust, and a somewhat awkward geometry.

The Pressure jet Engine has a fuel consumption in between rocket and turbine propulsion, but at a lower cost than either.

The engine in the plans is the G8-2-5. The pressure jet was invented and developed by one man, Eugene M. Gluhareff - these are free jet engine plans for download.

The following papers are from Mechanical Engineers studying for Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. They are in pdf format and are free to download

There is a great amount of information, plans, test results and failures detailed in the reports - a must read if you are planning on building a homemade Pulse Jet Engine.

Mechanical Engineering Pulse Jet Paper 1 - 2.64mb

Mechanical Engineering Pulse Jet Paper 2 - 2.8mb

Mechanical Engineering Pulse Jet Paper 3 - 2.38mb

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A Step By Step Guide with detailed instructions on how to make your own homemade turbo jet engine from a turbocharger

This Booklet was written by E Springer in 2001 and is a commonly quoted source for Turbocharger based Jet Turbines

Download this booklet free of charge by clicking on the link below

Turbocharger Jet Engine Booklet - 4.3mb in pdf format

Gas Turbine Jet Engine Plans for Model Aircraft

Premium Download - Cost US$ 8.00 - a small charge for an excellent set of plans for a homebuilt, diy or home workshop Gas Turbine Jet Engine

A fully functional Gas Turbine Jet engine similar to a Schreckling and KJ66 miniature Jet Engine - plans to build your own jet engine - 60 pages of quality Vector Graphics in PDF format - zoom to any level with no distortion, can be imported into compatible CNC software directly.

Miniature Jet Turbine Plans for model aircraft - in pdf format 3.5Mb in size

KJ66 Upgrade Plans and 3D part files - free

Easy to follow upgrade plans to improve the performance of a KJ66 miniature Jet Turbine Engine - free with Gas Turbine Plans

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Plans For The KJ66 Upgrade to improve performance and G Code Toolpath files to CNC Machine your own Turbine Blade

Free Turbo Charger Jet Engine Plans

Step By Step Guide with detailed instructions on how to make your own homemade turbo jet engine from a turbocharger

This Booklet was written by E Springer in 2001 and is a commonly quoted source for Turbocharger based Jet Turbines and is included free with the plan set

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Jet Engine Plans

The plans are of models that are generally regarded as obsolete in the rc jet world, but they are an ideal starter if you wish to make your own jet engine

Research the subject well before you start. There are lots of forums, groups and websites to help you.

I purchased "Gas Turbine Engines for Model Aircraft" by Kurt Schreckling, ISBN 0951058916 Traplet Publications - all you need to start.

Free Model Jet Turbine Plans - Screamin' Demon

Plans in PDF Format, 5 pages which are 605kb in size - FREE but hardly worth the download time if you want to build a Jet Engine!!!

Plans for an old "Pre-Shreckling" prototype Jet Turbine Engine - plans are incomplete and not detailed. The design probably would not produce enought thrust to be anything more than a static display model if it could reach self sustain speed. Oblsolete Design and very heavy build. Often sold as Homebuilt Jet Engine Plans

UPDATE - after a little searching I found the source of the plans - the infamous Savoy Scientific "Screamin' Demon" - have a look at this site for more info - http://screaming-demon.com/ the man who paid for the plans was far from happy. It is rumoured that these Turbo Jet plans (if they can be called that) are still for sale today on the web - beware of any daemon you may come across while searching for a Turbo Jet Plan - you may be a victim of one of the longest running Jet Plan scams of all time.

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