Talk:Combustion tap-off cycle

Fuel flow
"Since not all fuel flows through the main combustion chamber, the tap-off cycle is considered an open-cycle engine."

This is incorrect, all the fuel DOES flow through the main combustion chamber.

However, it does not flow through the nozzle.

--Hkultala (talk) 15:06, 31 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Edited that in, thanks for the correction! Only took a year and a half :) Appable (talk | contributions) 03:49, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Turbopump turbine
"engine startup is more complicated" - yes, so what rotates the pumps' drive turbine before engine ignition occurs ie at engine start up?


 * I believe it would involve helium or some other inert gas (probably heated) fed through the turbine and precisely controlled such that the turbine is at max RPM before engine startup. I'm looking for a source for that on J2-S documents - there's little hope of finding anything specific on the BE-3. Appable (talk | contributions) 03:50, 28 October 2017 (UTC)