I AM trying to help!
Gosh, what a froth I have whipped you into! Too bad I was trying to help a brutha out and correct your mistakes for his/her benefit, but I guess a fight is all that you want.
1- Your mnemonic device correctly identifies the four CYCLES of a turbine engine, not the STAGES of a turbine engine. You did identify them as "the four stages" and then named SIX. Your words, not mine.
2- Your expansion thereon only partially identifies the STAGES of a turbine engine, and incorrectly identifies at least one of them (burner can).
3- My non-sequitur isn't a non-sequitur at all. If you really claim to know anything about engines, then you would admit that all internal combustion engines accomplish the same four cycles, just by different means. If you were trying to simplify the process by way of mnemonic device, why can't I simplify the process by pointing out that recip engines have the same four cycles?
Answer: I can, but you want to start a fight.
4- Of course ignition takes place in the combustion section. I never said it didn't. I pointed out that ignition is an "event" (go back and read it again)... Just like ignition is an "event" in a radial, a v-engine, and inline engine, a rotary engine, and yes, a turbine engine.
5- I would never simplify an engine discussion in an interview into "hot section" and "cold section", which is apparently what you espouse. I would be more specific, which is what I would assume an interviewer would expect as well.
6- A "trubine" engine only develops "THRUST", not power? Well, well, well... I hope your discussion of a turbine engine would include what happens to all the happy gases that escape the combustion section. Some of that "power" (admittedly thrust, but converted into rotational energy) goes to drive the compressor, some goes to drive the power turbines (fan or prop in most modern engines), and what is left is "thrust". I imagine a number of turboprop pilots, especially, would be interested to know that the engine in their airplanes only produces "thrust". The PT-6 in a 1900, for example, produces only about 10% of its' total ESHP in jet thrust, the rest by the propeller. That is why TP engines are rated in SHP and not in "thrust".
Or... Do TP engines not count as "turbines"?
Sounds to me like your explanation of a turbine engine only includes turbofans and turbojets (your explanation of "low speed compressors" obviously referring to shrouded engines). A shame, there are other kinds as well. No need to pigeonhole our explanations of airplane engines to only include "thrust" engines.
I'm quite happy with my education, thanks. No refund necessary.
If you wish to discuss this further, just send me a PM. I'd be happy to discuss the intricacies of turbine engines with you, but this thread need not be hijacked any further.
