Question 1
What is the main purpose of the combustor in a gas turbine engine?
Question 2
In the ideal Brayton cycle, the combustor is usually represented as what kind of heat-addition process?
Question 3
Why does a gas turbine combustor often operate with excess air rather than a perfectly stoichiometric mixture?
Question 4
What device provides the initial energy needed to start burning the fuel-air mixture during engine start?
Question 5
What does the term stoichiometric mean in combustion?