Affiliation:
1. NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
2. Pratt and Whitney, West Palm Beach, FL
Abstract
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has established a “cold” airflow turbine test program to experimentally determine the performance of liquid rocket engine turbopump drive turbines. Testing of the space shuttle main engine (SSME) alternate turbopump development (ATD) fuel turbine was conducted for “back-to-back” comparisons with the baseline SSME fuel turbine results obtained in the first quarter of 1991. Turbine performance, Reynolds number effects, and turbine diagnostics, such as stage reactions and exit swirl angles, were investigated at the turbine design point and at off-design conditions. The test data showed that the ATD fuel turbine test article was approximately 1.4 percent higher in efficiency and flowed 5.3 percent more than the baseline fuel turbine test article. This paper describes the method and results used to validate the ATD fuel turbine aerodynamic design. The results are being used to determine the ATD high pressure fuel turbopump (HPFTP) turbine performance over its operating range, anchor the SSME ATD steady-state performance model, and validate various prediction and design analyses.
Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Cited by
3 articles.
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