Trent 1000 benefits

Customer benefits

The Trent 1000 is optimised to power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner™. It has demonstrated world-class fuel burn, and through the proven Trent family performance retention sustains this benefit longer through life. As well as the reduced carbon creation through reduced fuel burn the Trent 1000 is the quietest engine for the Boeing 787 reinforcing its industry leading environmental credentials. Continuous improvement programmes look to sustain these benefits throughout the programme. These benefits and many more Trent 1000 customer benefits can be found below.

World-Class fuel performance

At entry into service (EIS) of the Boeing 787, the Trent 1000 will be the most efficient engine for the aircraft, delivering the lowest fuel consumption. Engine testing has already demonstrated this level of performance. Our development programme has run an engine over 15% better than the performance of our first Trent, Trent 700 when it first entered service. This is equivalent to a fuel saving of $2.3m per aircraft per year.

The Trent three-shaft retention has been demonstrated as world-class through in service operation. With its titanium wide chord fan, short, well-supported rotors, this design can save up to 1% in fuel burn.  This is equivalent to a fuel saving of $155,000 per aircraft per year.

As part of the Trent family, the Trent 1000 benefits from the flow of technology from later members of the family, such as the Trent XWB. Planned technology development will flow into the Trent 1000, delivering a further 1.5% reduction in new engine fuel consumption by 2015, delivering a further saving of $230,000 per aircraft per year.

Rolls-Royce technology development Vision programme is continuously running demonstrator programmes to prove and mature future technology that may be introduced beyond 2015.

Industry leading environmental credentials

The Trent 1000 is the quietest engine for the Boeing 787 and is the only engine that will achieve London airports QC1 departures and QC0.5 arrivals noise bands across all 787 aircraft variants.

The engine has been designed for low emissions and achieves over 40% margin to CAEP6 emissions legislation. Our fuel efficiency also contributes to the aircraft target of delivering 20% lower CO2 than the previous generation aircraft it replaces.

Delivering greatest availability and lowest burden through design for service

The Trent 1000 has been designed for ease of maintenance with accessories mounted on the fan case and has borescope ports positioned regularly and at eye level. This allows the Trent 1000 to require 50% lower scheduled line maintenance than its competitor.

Advances in Engine Health Monitoring data capture and analysis, and dedicated health monitoring sensors throughout the engine ensure the Trent 1000 has 20% more predictive monitoring system capability than previous engines.

Advanced technology and designs such as the low speed swept titanium fan blade and heated engine stator sections reduce foreign object and ice ingress into the engine. This removes a cause of maintenance burden and increasing engine availability.

Operational and Financial confidence

The Trent 1000 will be the most mature and robust engine for the Boeing 787 from EIS having already accumulated over 6,000 hours and 12,000 cycles development engine running. Through powering four of the flight test aircraft the Trent 1000 will also build up more flight test experience prior to service. Trent 1000 testing and maturity.

The Trent 1000 is supported through Rolls-Royce services, providing financial confidence and peace of mind.

Rolls-Royce delivers on its commitments. In 2004 when the Trent 1000 was first selected to power the Boeing 787 a number of programme objectives were set. A clear date for first engine run was established; a 74,000lb capable engine certification date was set and maturity and performance goals were identified. We are proud to have achieved all our targets on time and will continue to achieve the targets that we have set ourselves moving forward.