AMT Netherlands
Leading designer and manufacturer of commercial gas turbines
Overview
AMT (Advanced Micro Turbines) originated in the Netherlands in 1991, and we have been manufacturing turbines commercially since middle of 1994. Managed by Bennie and Anita van de Goor, the founders of the company, Bennie being the pilot of the world famous ‘Dutch Pulse-Jet’ team, AMT Netherlands has more than 25 years experience in the development and flight demonstration of high performance jet powered model aircraft. Based in Geldrop, near Eindhoven, the company has been growing steadily in all markets since the start in the middle of 1994.
The Pegasus gas turbine was first produced commercially in the middle of 1994, its legendary reliability and performance have quickly become a benchmark in the industry. Our Olympus HP and Mercury HP turbines are further developments of the Pegasus HP design, and utilise the same proven concepts and engineering principles. The Olympus was released in 1995 for special applications, large models and experienced operators, and offers a 70% thrust increase over the Pegasus with only slightly larger dimensions.
Pegasus HP
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Lynx engine
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Nike
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A later version, the Olympus HP, was redesigned by Bennie van de Goor from the original AMT Netherlands design Olympus engine with more than 20 % thrust than our original Olympus design. Our Titan engine, is designed for proffesional applications but also universities use this engine for projects. Our latest engines, the Nike and Lynx, are designed for the use in UAV high speed target drone applications, experimental aircraft and universities.
All motors are based on our own AMT Netherlands revolutionary design and unique axial flow turbine, giving exceptional thrust-to-weight ratios, with low fuel consumption and rapid acceleration times. Running on liquid fuel (Jet A1, JP5, JP8, diesel) they need no separate lubrication system – just one of the many innovative concepts that we developed, which are the industry standards. AMT’spresent range of 4 turbines, have thrusts from 230N (51.7lbs) to 1569N (352lbs). The largest engine has been in full production since December 2018. A new engine in between Nike and Lynx (called Orion) will be available in early 2025 and will produce 600N (135lbs) of thrust.
AMT Netherlands is totally committed to the continual development of the efficiency and safety of the miniature gas turbine motors, and associated equipment, they supply. Quality control is strictly maintained, and every turbine is assembled by skilled engineers and rigorously tested before dispatch to ensure that it meets precise performance and safety parameters. Prospective and existing Customers are welcome to visit AMT’s offices (by appointment) to learn more.
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Product Offerings
Olympus HP E-start with 230N/51.7Lbf Thrust – Weight 2.9kg/6.4lbs
The Olympus HP features totally re-designed Compressor, Diffuser and Turbines stages, producing a massive power increase, without reducing the legendary reliability and incredibly fast throttle response that our turbines are well known for.
The Olympus HP is available with manual or auto Air-start, as well as fully automatic electric starting.
Titan E-start with 392N/88Lbf thrust – Weight 3.67kg/8.1lbs
The Titan has been constructed from a single radial compressor and an axial flow turbine stage. The Titan owes much of its excellent performance and superb power/weight ratio to a new design diffuser stage. This revolutionary type of diffuser also allows the relative small engine diameter.
The time required for the Titan to spool up and down is also positively influenced by the low mass of the axial turbine wheel, taking less than 4 seconds and from min. to max. rpm and only 3 seconds from max. rpm to min. rpm.
The Titan is available with manual or auto Air-start, as well as fully automatic electric starting
Nike E-start with 784N/176.2 Lbf Thrust – Weight 8.77kg/19.3lbs
The Nike engine is a direct “spin-off” of the successful Titan engine, knowledge collected during the last 5 years of building and testing the Titan engine did evaluate into another revolutionary design gas turbine. The specific fuel consumption is extremely good for an engine in this thrust class especially when looking at the small engine diameter of this engine. At S.T.P. and 100% throttle (784N/176Lbf thrust) this engine uses only 1850 Gram/Min (65,25 oz/min).
The diffuser stage allows the relative small engine diameter of 201 mm for this high thrust engine. The “engine only weight” is 9150 gram (20,2 Lb), the “system airborne weight” of the complete Nike system is only 11300 gram (24,9 Lb), which is extremely competitive for an engine with this thrust.
A feature used within this engine is the internal EGT sensor, this EGT sensor (a real Tt5) has a diameter of 1.0 mm, because of this small diameter there is a fast EGT response time possible. The result of this fast EGT response time is a short start up time of less than 30 seconds.
Lynx E-Start with 1569N/352 Lbf Thrust – Weight 21.45kg/47.2lbs
The lynx engine is a direct “spin-off” of the successful Nike engine, knowledge collected during the last 4 years of building and testing the Lynx engine did evaluate into another revolutionary design gas turbine.
The Lynx engine is constructed around a single, fully in house CNC machined, radial compressor wheel and an axial flow turbine stage. The Lynx engine owns most of its excellent performance and power/weight ratio because of its revolutionary design diffuser stage similar to the Nike engine.
The specific fuel consumption is extremely good for an engine in this thrust class especially when looking at the small engine diameter of this engine. At S.T.P. and 100% throttle (1569N/352Lbf thrust) the Lynx engine uses only 3600 Gram/Min (127 oz/min) of fuel.
Call +1 (810) 441-1457 or Email: bob@uavpropulsiontech.com for cost/delivery.
AMT Netherlands website: https://amtjets.com/