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MTU Aero Engines
MTU Aero Engines: Award-
Winning Technology
In view of increasingly scarce resources, rising fuel prices, and the growth in air traffic – which
continues unabated at an average rate of 5 percent per year – passengers, people living in the
vicinity of airports, authorities, organizations, and other players in the aviation industry are
calling for more fuel-thrifty and cleaner aircraft and engines. MTU Aero Engines has been work-
ing on innovative technologies for decades to further improve the environmental compatibility
of future engines.
By Martina Vollmuth, MTU Aero Engines
The target: Each new engine is to burn
less fuel and be cleaner and quieter than
its predecessor model. The key to success:
With the PurePower® PW1000G Geared
Turbofan™ (GTF), MTU and its US partner
Pratt & Whitney have developed a solu-
tion for meeting the exacting require-
ments of the future. They are building
a highly advanced engine that burns 15
percent less fuel, emits 15 percent less
CO
2
,
and cuts the perceived noise level
in half. It marks the debut of a new fam-
ily of environmentally friendly engines.
An indispensable, key component of the
GTF is MTU’s high-speed, low-pressure
turbine. Germany’s leading engine
builder has been specializing in low-
pressure turbines (LPT) for aircraft en-
gines for decades and has become the
world’s technology leader in this field.
The company’s masterpiece is the high-
speed turbine for the GTF, which beats
conventional models by a wide margin.
MTU is the leading manufacturer of this
engine component worldwide. In March
and April 2013, the company won two
German Industry Innovation Awards for
the novel technology.