SwRI Engineers Are Developing a Small Cooled Turbine to Make Drones More Reliable and Efficient
September 04, 2018
September 04, 2018
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 4 -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release:
Southwest Research Institute engineers are developing a cooled, radial gas turbine for a small generator that provides thousands of hours of electricity to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a significant improvement to current UAV turbines that only operate a few hundred hours before wearing out.
Turbines are rotary mechanical devices that, when combined with a generator, prod . . .
Southwest Research Institute engineers are developing a cooled, radial gas turbine for a small generator that provides thousands of hours of electricity to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a significant improvement to current UAV turbines that only operate a few hundred hours before wearing out.
Turbines are rotary mechanical devices that, when combined with a generator, prod . . .