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Centrax
Centrax, also known as Centrax Limited is an engineering company based in Newton Abbot, Devon in the power generation industry making generating sets with Siemens gas turbine engines. These are known as Gas turbine#Industrial gas turbines for power generation, industrial gas turbines. History Centrax was founded in 1946 by Richard HH Barr OBE, the chairman, Geoffrey R White, the technical director, who had worked with Sir Frank Whittle in the early stages of jet engines at Power Jets and Joseph Salim Peress. In 1955 Centrax opened its compressor and turbine blade factory in Devon and became Centrax Ltd. In 1964 it entered into a joint arrangement with Misco Precision Casting (the Michigan-based Misco division of Howmet Castings of Ohio) of the US and formed Central-Misco Ltd, a division of the company that made metal products with investment casting. It operated separate to the main company. Centrax has two main operating Divisions: Centrax Limited and Centrax Turbine Compone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolls-Royce Trent
The Rolls-Royce Trent is a family of high-bypass turbofans produced by Rolls-Royce Holdings, Rolls-Royce. It continues the Turbofan#Three-spool, three spool architecture of the Rolls-Royce RB211, RB211 with a maximum thrust ranging from . Launched as the RB-211-524L in June 1988, the prototype first ran in August 1990. Its first variant is the #Trent 700, Trent 700 introduced on the Airbus A330 in March 1995, then the #Trent 800, Trent 800 for the Boeing 777 (1996), the #Trent 500, Trent 500 for the Airbus A340, A340 (2002), the #Trent 900, Trent 900 for the Airbus A380, A380 (2007), the #Trent 1000, Trent 1000 for the Boeing 787 (2011), the #Trent XWB, Trent XWB for the Airbus A350, A350 (2015), and the #Trent 7000, Trent 7000 for the A330neo (2018). It also has marine and industrial variants such as the Rolls-Royce MT30, RR MT30. Development Despite the success of the RB211, Rolls-Royce's share of the large civil turbofan market was only 8% when it was privatised in April 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
