V2500 Reference Core Engine Arrives in Wuxi; AeroVolt-30V Enters Engineering Implementation

Aeroderivative conversion moves from concept validation to engineering verification

Aeroderivative core engine on a transport stand ahead of conversion work.

WUXI, China, 7 August 2026 — The V2500 reference core engine for Huatian Gas Turbine’s AeroVolt-30V programme has arrived at the company’s Wuxi facility, moving the project from concept validation into engineering implementation.
AeroVolt-30V is being developed into a 25 MW-class aeroderivative gas turbine generator set for continuous-duty power, including AI data centre infrastructure. Simple-cycle efficiency is approximately 37 percent (LHV), with dry low emission combustion on natural gas and direct drive to a 3,600 rpm synchronous generator — no reduction gearbox, removing a maintenance item, a lubrication circuit, an efficiency loss and a failure mode from the package.

Compressor rotor on a balancing machine. The high-pressure core is retained; the low-pressure power section is redesigned for continuous ground duty.

The conversion retains the high-pressure core as the gas generator and redesigns the low-pressure power section for continuous ground duty. Across Huatian’s aeroderivative platforms the work divides into four quadrants — remove 25 percent, keep 45 percent, modify 20 percent, add 10 percent. The 10 percent added is the proprietary engineering; the 45 percent retained is decades of aviation service data no new-build programme can reproduce on a comparable timescale.
Engineering scope addresses aerodynamic matching between the retained core and the redesigned power turbine, shaft system integration and rotordynamics, vibration control, thermal management, and system-level reliability. Huatian is responsible for the overall technical solution, core component development, integrated system design, package assembly, and functional testing.

Module arrangement of the generating package. Illustrative.

Next milestones follow a defined sequence: engine modification, system integration, first start-up, load testing, and emissions validation, targeting first-unit shipment in Q2 2027. Emissions compliance has been a core design input from the outset rather than a retrofit.

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