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Advance Turbine Design  Dedicated to the design and development of gas turbine engines |
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Advance Turbine Design Dedicated to the design and development of gas turbine engines |
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Our in-house capabilities and our fully equipped machine shop and
engineering department enable the implementation of our products from their
inception to the final finished design.
Advance Turbine Design has developed a family of turbine engines, ranging
from the ATDI-100 with 100 pounds of thrust down to turbines for the
smallest applications. The workhorse engine with most accumulated
flight and test cell hours is the ATDI-3 (35 lb. of thrust) micro-turbojet
engine, shown in the above figure at the far right.
Advance Turbine Design's key competitive advantage is its innovative,
low-cost approach to design and fabrication of miniature air breathing
engine systems, which provides real value to its customers. The use of
a streamlined, focused approach to product design leads to rapid technology
development when compared to the rest of the gas turbine industry.
Advance Turbine Design has been engaged in the design, development and
testing of micro-turbojet engines since 1986. The company has
demonstrated record of accomplishments for both NASA and DOD customers by
delivering high-quality engine systems and operational support.
Engines from Advance Turbine Design are currently operating in flight test
vehicles ranging in size from 30 lbs. up to 125 lbs. in twin-engine
installations. In Addition, even more applications are nearing
completion. Three ATDI-100 engines will power NASA low speed flight
testing of hypersonic shapes up to transonic speeds.
RELEVANT PRESS RELEASES IN SUPPORT OF Advance Turbine Design
* * * * Successful Netfires LAM First Flight, June 17, 2002 * * * * *
An ATDI-4X (TJ30-4A) turbo jet successfully powered the first flight
of a Raytheon Netfires Prototype Loiter Attack Missile (LAM). The
flight lasted about 11 minutes and included two racetrack circuits at the
NASA Wallops Test Range in Virginia on June 17, 2002.
Advance Turbine Design of Neenah, Wisconsin, cooperating with Hamilton
Sundstrand, supplied the propulsion system for the first Raytheon Netfires
missile flight. This system included the engine, fuel system,
electronic control unit and its software, starter and igniter.
The engine was developed, designed, fabricated, and tested at Advance
Turbine Design's Neenah, Wisconsin facility. The ballistically starter
engine was tested and perfected at Advance Turbine Design using Advance
Turbine Design's Advanced Engine Controller. Finally, the engine was
integrated in the Netfires Loiter Attack Missile and Installation tested,
then delivered to the end user for flight testing.
The Hamilton Sundstrand-Advance Turbine Design team will support three
important Netfires LAM flight tests scheduled for the later months of 2002
and early 2003. These tests will demonstrate missile flight
controllability, with the last planned to include a military payload.
All future flights will involve ground launch from a canister via a rocket
booster.
Successful Netfires LAM Launch/Flight, November 3, 2002
The full-up Netfires LAM was successfully launched and few last Friday
afternoon, November 8, 2002! This was a ground (rocket) launch, rapid
turbojet (ADTI-4X/TJ30) start and flight at Eglin AFB, Florida, all turbojet
powered. This is great news for the program and helps put it on a
faster track to reality. Thanks to Advance Turbine Design for your
support, hard work and concern. Another huge success for the team!
Mr. Jeffrey L. Seymour, Principal Investigator, Chief
Designer, Founder and President of Advance Turbine Design.
Mr. Seymour founded Advance Turbine Design in 1986. Over the past 16
years, Mr. Seymour has developed technology and expertise in micro-turbine
technology including: Macro-turbine patents, Combustion physics, flow
physics, thrust generation and augmentation, rotation dynamics, fabrication
and engine serviceability, reliability, fuel systems, control systems,
materials engineering, rapid prototyping, micro-turbine patents and trade
practices, aircraft installation, systems engineering and related talents
such as aircraft piloting, landing gear systems, aircraft fabrication
(composites, joinery), surface finishing, and aircraft performance.
Mr. Seymour has been a PI for three successful NASA SBIR contracts:
"Transonic Micro-Turbojet Propulsion System" Phase I contract, NAS3-97608,
"Minimum Frontal Area High Thrust Engine," NAS3-98059, "Sub-Scale Remotely
Piloted Hypervelocity Shape," NAS1-98059. He has managed the
development of over 10 micro-turbine engine models, including commercial
engines for Toyota, landfill methane power generation systems "green
technology," and numerous thrust engines, all of which have proven to be
flight worthy (see Navy letter attached). Mr. Seymour has patented
micro-turbine technology, including a key patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,727,378
"Gas Turbine Engine," 1998). He has developed flight weight engines
from 20 lbs. thrust to 107 lbs. thrust, including integration of electronic
fuel controllers using state-of-the-art surface mount multi-layer PCB
systems. His publications include:
Almost all of Advance Turbine Design's projects have required rapid prototyping and development, flexibility in design, fabrication, testing and a healthy dose of innovation, not to mention the low-cost constraints in which Advance turbine Design can operate. Advance Turbine Design's workmanship has been proven time and again in a variety of demanding applications from power generation, to turboprops and turbo shafts, to pure thrust engines. A customer base including NASA Langley Research Center, the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate at F. Eustis (US Army), the Air Force Research Labs Materials Directorate at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems and Groen Brother's Aviation, among others, testifies to the strength of product conceived and produced by Advance Turbine Design. Choose any of the links on this page to learn more about these remarkable projects and contact us today if we are what you have been looking for.
Location: 2485 Schultz Drive, Neenah, Wisconsin 54956 (15 miles north of Oshkosh or 90 miles of Milwaukee) on Lake Winnebago. Located in a machining/fabrication-rich area (Fox Valley).
Engineering, CAD, Offices: 1,750 sq. ft.
Manufacturing/Machining: 5,450 sq. ft.
Engine Final Assembly/Clean Room: 1,200 sq. ft.
| CAD | 288 sq. ft. | Display Area | 300 sq. ft. |
| Test Cell Area | 250 sq. ft. | Electronics Fab | 280 sq. ft. |
| Engineering Area | 1,250 sq. ft. | Secure Storage | 200 sq. ft. |
| 4th Axis CNC Machining Centers |
Miltronics Partner I Machining Center with Centurion V Control (16"x25") Miltronics Partner VM-16 Machining Center with Centurion VI Control |
| CNC Lathe | Mazak QT-20 with Mazatrol T Plus controller (10" dis. X 20" long 2" thru Hole) CMS GT Express (2" diameter and under, 7" length) |
| Manual Lathes | Enco 100-2057 with Platinum Plus readout and tooling Acer 134G Dynamic Series High Speed Precision Engine Lathe |
| Manual Mills | Enco 100-1527 with Platinum Plus readout and tolling, fixtures, rotary |
| Vertical Turret Knee Mill | Acer E-mil 3VK |
| Manual Surface Grinder |
Acer AGS-618 2-Axis Automatic Surface Grinder |
| Balancer/Metrics | Heins custom turbine Balancer and numerous dimensioning tools. |
| Test Cell | SCADA computer, manual instruments, EGT, RPM, CDP, fuel rate,
thrust, etc. |
| Data Acquisition | Hewlett Packard HP 34907A Data Logger Hewlett Packard HP 34901A 20-Channel Multiplexer |
| Vibration Analyzer | ONO SOKKI FFT Analyzer CF-4220A |
| Electronics FAB | Parallax PIC16CSS in-circuit emulator, compilers, programmers,
oscilloscopes, test equipment; circuit manufacturing, Electronic
CAD, surface mount |
| CAD/Support | TekSoft CAD/CAM software, 450 MHz HP CAD, various Pentiums for analysis |
Some of Advance Turbine Design's facilities and equipment are shown in the pictures below.
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 Figure 2 Acer E mill |
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Figure 3 Mazak Quick Turn 20 |
Figure 4 Out Side View of Test Cell |
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Figure 5 Inside Test Cell |
Figure 6 Hein Balancing System BT - 25 |
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From engines to airframes, consider development of your prototype vehicle/engine with Advance Turbine Design. ATDI is involved in UAV's Propulsion flight systems, General Aviation, and also ground based micro turbine P.M.G. generators. We are currently actively involved in developing new technologies to enable our engines to run on multiple fuels including Hydrogen, Hyox and Methane.
