Today we're looking at how the regenerative cooling channels on Space Shuttle's main combustion chamber were manufactured.

While making a cannon of this sort is nothing new to us, we were impressed by the effort taken to get a stoichiometrically ideal mixture of 3.2% butane and air in the combustion chamber.

In the high-pressure combustion chamber test rig (HBK-S), complex and multi-stage combustion chamber systems of the next generation can be analysed under conditions typical of gas turbines, i.e. at ...

This system can use natural gas, biogas and synthesis gas to operate a recuperated gas turbine with combustion chamber inlet temperatures of up to 700 °C and a pressure ratio of around 5. For the ...