Gas Turbine design: A radical rethink

The Openiano Gas Turbine aims to address the shortcomings of conventional gas turbine design, resulting in significantly higher efficiency, much lower emissions simplified materials requirements and improved manufacturability. Design features include a non-integral compressor (ie, decoupling of compression from the turbine core), use of impulse-based turbine architecture with Pelton-style blades and 12 combustion chambers that ignite sequentially 1.5 seconds apart creating an unprecedented 18-second combustion cycle. By Renato Openiano, Orentrix