Robotic Sensors as the Eyes and Ears of New Jet Engines—Dr. James Kell—Rolls-Royce Engineering Company
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Rolls-Royce is an engineering company that makes jet engines which get distributed all over the world for use in land, air, and sea. Some engines made in the 1960s are still in use, and they aren't actually that different from the engines being made today—that is, with one main (and important) exception: they weren't designed with service or repair ability in mind. Without this design, repairs can be time-consuming and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is where the importance of keyholes—small holes through which repairs can be completed in the field—on jet engines becomes particularly important.
As a technologist at Rolls-Royce engineering company, Dr. James Kell explains new ways of allowing more service ability with these engines, and how this challenge has spurred new projects and designs for the construction of jet engines. For example, the team at Rolls-Royce has already created engine health monitoring networks capable of monitoring an engine's temperature, pressure, and vibration. The newest project in the works is a permanently embedded camera network that would provide an unprecedented amount of insight into the functional health of the engines that the world so heavily relies upon.
Tune in for all the details on this intriguing topic. To learn more, visit the media section of the Rolls-Royce website at rolls-royce.com.
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| 1:09.5 | Kell. He's a technologist. Dr. Kell was part of Rose Royce, the famous engineering company. |
| 1:16.0 | So, James, how you doing? Thanks for coming. |
| 1:18.0 | Hi. So tell me about your work. What are you working on? I read a brief description but in order to give it justice, |
| 1:25.9 | I'll ask you about it. So what's your work involved right now? |
| 1:29.1 | So the kind of shorthand version of explaining what we do is or what I'm doing with |
| 1:34.2 | the company is developing new technologies for key hole surgery for jet engines. |
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