Is anyone working on making the turbine obsolete?

Question

Is anyone working on making the turbine obsolete?

Answer 1

Are you referring to a turbine engine on a jet airplane? They are working on a new type of engine called a "pulse" engine.

The combustion cycle comprises six phases: Ignition, Combustion, Exhaust, Induction, Compression, and (in some engines) Fuel Injection.

Starting at ignition within the combustion chamber, a high pressure is raised by the combustion of the fuel/air mixture. The pressurized gas from combustion cannot exit forward through the one way intake valve and so exits only to the rear through the exhaust tube.

It is the inertial reaction of this gas flow that causes the engine to provide thrust, this force being used to propel an airframe or a rotor blade. The inertia of the traveling exhaust gas causes a low pressure in the combustion chamber. This pressure is less than the inlet pressure (upstream of the one-way valve), and so the induction phase of the cycle begins.

In the simplest of pulsejet engines this intake is through a venturi which causes fuel to be drawn from a fuel supply. In more complex engines the fuel may be injected directly into the combustion chamber. When the induction phase is complete a reflected high pressure wave from the tailpipe compresses the charge, which is ignited by residual heat from the previous cycle.

Answer 2

I am working on building an alternate energy source for my master's thesis. A guy named Shawn Frayne developed a windbelt generator, and I am doing my research over his work. I have included his website in the source section.

Answer 3

Yes a small but dedicated team of veterinary surgeons are working on phasing out the turbine and replacing it with the ball point pen