Abstract: A gas turbine engine with a rotating, annular combustion chamber. Said combustion chamber has vanes or jets affixed around its output that are canted in such a manner as to cause the reactive force of the escaping gas to rotate the combustion chamber. The gas then proceeds to impinge on the blades of a turbine wheel driving it in the opposite direction. The two counter-rotating bodies are then coupled to the shaft that drives the compressor stage of the turbine. Said configuration permits operation with higher gas temperatures within the burner which result in higher gas output velocities resulting in efficiency in fuel consumption and relatively clean emissions. The higher output velocities are made possible because the rotation of the gas output nozzles/vanes reduce the velocity of the gas impinging on the turbine blades by the velocity of the nozzles/vanes moving in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine with a split wall, (one wall fixed and one wall free to rotate) annular combustion chamber. The rotating wall of said combustion chamber has vanes or jets affixed around its outer periphery that are canted in such a manner as to cause the reactive force of the escaping gas to rotate that wall of said combustion chamber. The gas then proceeds to impinge on the blades of a turbine wheel driving it in the opposite direction. The two counter-rotating bodies are then coupled to the shaft that drives the compressor stage of the turbine. Said configuration permits operation with higher gas temperatures within the burner which result in higher gas output velocities resulting in efficiency in fuel consumption and relatively clean emissions. The higher output velocities are made possible because the rotation of the gas output nozzles/vanes reduce the velocity of the gas impinging on the turbine blades by the velocity of the nozzles/vanes moving in the opposite direction.