JET-PROPULSION PLANTS

Introduced: September 1968

Classification Context

Section:: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Class:: COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
Subclass:: JET-PROPULSION PLANTS

Description

F02K covers jet propulsion systems and related powerplants that generate thrust through the expulsion of high-velocity fluid jets. This subclass encompasses gas turbine engines, ramjets, scramjets, pulse jets, and rocket motors used for aerospace and marine applications. The classification includes combustion chambers, fuel injection systems, nozzle designs, and thrust vector control mechanisms integral to jet propulsion. Adjacent classes F02C and F02D address gas turbines and fuel injection systems in non-jet applications, while F02B covers reciprocating internal combustion engines.

Scope Notes

Limiting references: Features of jet-propulsion plants common to gas-turbine plants, air intakes or fuel supply control of air-breathing jet-propulsion plants ,

Related Keywords

JET(S) propulsion plantjet PROPULSION plantPROPULSION by reactive thrustjet propulsion plant with RAM(S) action compressionpropulsion by reactive thrustROCKETS as jet-propulsion plant

6 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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F02K 1/00 Plants characterised by the form or arrangement of the jet pipe or nozzle; Jet pipes or nozzles peculiar thereto
F02K 3/00 Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan
F02K 5/00 Plants including an engine, other than a gas turbine, driving a compressor or a ducted fan
F02K 7/00 Plants in which the working-fluid is used in a jet only, i.e. the plants not having a turbine or other engine driving a compressor or a ducted fan; Control thereof
F02K 9/00 Rocket-engine plants, i.e. plants carrying both fuel and oxidant therefor; Control thereof
F02K 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass