Aerospace Engines A to Z
Aerospace Engines A to Z

Updated: 21-Sep-2020

KLOCKNER - HUMBOLT - DEUTZ

(Germany)


(see KHD).

This company manufactured BMW engines during WWII.

-They made the Bristol Orpheus at the end of the war for their planes of the new Luftwaffe.

-They also made the Lycoming T-53 and T-64. KHB made engines with Snecma and MTU and with Turbomeca los Larzac 04.

-From their own design were the T-16, T-112, T-117, T-118, T-128, T-212, T-216, T-312 and T-317.

-Little known were the Diesel engines that they made during the war, like the DZ-700, an 8-cylinder radial from 1940 that gave 118 kW of power at 2,700 rpm. It had little displacement, 4 liters.

DZ-700
“DZ-700”

-It is difficult to obtain a nice picture of the engine. The image of this DZ-700 is very blurred but allows us to guess the architecture of the engine; radial.

-The DZ-710 was a 2-stroke, horizontally-opposed, 16-cylinder engine displacing 52 liters and giving 2,700 CV.

DZ-710
“DZ-710”

-This was in the years 1942/43

And there is no illustration of the DZ-720 engine but it is known that there were two coupled DZ-710 engines in “H” configuration to give 5,400 CV with 32 cylinders.

From Appendix 6: A nice drawing of the T-117 in which we see the single inverted chamber. It seems to be derived from the stationary T-212 (APU).

T-117 de 234 lbf of thrust
“T-117, 234 lbf of thrust”

From Appendix 9: During WWII, the Hamburg and Brunn factories also made BMW-801 engines.

The author of this edition of Aeroengines AtoZ, through Aeroteca, collaborated on Version 2 of this video, which is presented here.

To understand the operation of the connecting rods, the 1929 Continental R 670 single-cylinder engine was chosen.

A demonstration of Version 3, improved at the author's suggestion, is also available on YouTube at a later date. This version shows bronze valve guides, improved valve spring movement, and the split crankshaft counterweights and front bearing balls also move.

The design is from Juan Soler, Sant Cugat, Barcelona

Below we show a flash of version 3

Counting also with the coloboration of JMC of Enginys Mecanics in Mataro, Barcelona