Preliminary sizing methodologies for regional aircraft with liquid hydrogen fuel and SOFC-GT-Battery hybrid-electric powertrains

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) systems for aviation applications have been considered for their use as APUs or powertrains, as standalone systems or in combination with gas turbines, and both fueled by reformed Jet-A or by hydrogen. Most existing studies focus on powertrain performance modelling. In this work, traditional tube-and-wing regional...

Employing Liquid Hydrogen for Fuel Cell Heat Recovery in Aircraft

This work describes the benefits of exploiting cold hydrogen in a 2 MW liquid hydrogen-electric powertrain. Hydrogen is stored in a liquid state in the aircraft at its boiling point of 20 K (at 1 bar). Fuel cells require an input temperature of at least zero degrees Celsius to operate. The heating process can either be done by drawing current...

Passenger reasons for mobility transition from jet to train and turboprop

Turboprop airplanes and trains have the potential in being more sustainable for short distance travels. This paper focuses on identifying factors that influence passengers in the selection of transport. A questionnaire was developed by 4 experts and used in 3 workshops with 58 aircraft interior design experts. Besides, the answers of 20...

An Assessment of a Regional Turboprop Featuring Wingtip-Mounted Propellers: Design Integration Coupling Propeller-Wing Aerodynamics and Structural Wing Weight

The current focus in the aviation industry for more sustainable designs, could mean the revive of propeller propulsion, due to their relative high propulsion efficiency compared to jets. In addition, the application of wingtip-mounted propellers installed in tractor configuration can be used as tip-vortex attenuating devices, reducing the wing...

Engine Health Monitoring Demonstrator based on GPA: A Gas Path Analysis GPA concept developed using the Gas turbine Simulation Program (GSP)

This report describes the work conducted by TUD for WP 4.2.7 of the ESPOSA project for the development of Gas Path Analysis (GPA) based Engine Health Monitoring (EHM) concepts for the BE1 and BE2 engine designs. Models developed with the Gas turbine Simulation Program GSP have been used for the development and for the simulation of deteriorated...

Design and numerical investigation of swirl recovery vanes for the Fokker 29 propeller

Swirl recovery vanes (SRVs) are a set of stationary vanes located downstream from a propeller, which may recover some of the residual swirl from the propeller, hoping for an improvement in both thrust and efficiency. The SRV concept design for a scaled version representing the Fokker 29 propeller is performed in this paper, which may give rise...

Engine simulation models for the cycles of BE1 and report on obtained performance data: Model development with the Gas turbine Simulation Program (GSP)

report describes the work conducted by TUD for WP 1.3.3 of the ESPOSA project for the development of the BE1 engine simulation model in NLR’s Gas turbine Simulation Program, GSP. Results include simulation results, validation and the GSP model project files. The model is based on simulated data from PBS Velká Bíteš, Czech Republic, (PBS). The...