Description du projet
Rien n’arrête l’avion hybride
Dans un véhicule hybride électrique parallèle, le moteur électrique unique ainsi que le moteur à essence alimentent le véhicule en parallèle. Les avions nécessitent des recherches plus approfondies pour pouvoir également bénéficier de moteurs électriques. Le projet BLU-SPARK, financé par l’UE, contribue à faire avancer de manière significative l’industrie de l’aviation générale en développant et en testant le premier avion hybride parallèle au monde. Le nouveau groupe propulseur constitue la clé de cette innovation, s’intégrant à un assemblage efficace et compact. De plus, l’avion hybride comprend une structure électronique qui intègre les fonctionnalités de chargeur embarqué à l’onduleur CA/CC, permettant d’éliminer un composant extrêmement onéreux et très lourd.
Objectif
BLU-SPARK aims at designing, developing and testing the first parallel hybrid airplane ever produced offering the pilot top dynamic performances, more flying safety and environment protection. The proposed hybrid airplane will represent a quantic step in the general aviation industry, bringing new benefits such as: more power with boost mode, increased climbing rate when necessary, back up propulsion in case of failure of the internal combustion engine, energy savings (ensuing strong reduction of overall greenhouse gas emissions); zero gas and noise emissions in airports; reduced dependence on fossil fuels; cost savings for the users, reduced worn out of mechanical parts. These advantages will be obtained at an affordable cost, neither spoiling the airplane dynamic performances, increasing the flying range. The key of this breakthrough is the new hybrid powertrain, integrating into one efficient and compact assembly a very innovative internal combustion engine, and an above the state-of-the-art electric system, made up of extremely compact electric motor and inverter, and battery pack. In addition the hybrid airplane features an innovating electronic structure that integrates in the AC-DC inverter the on board charger functionalities allowing to eliminate a very expensive and heavy component. In the past years some prototypes of full electric airplanes have been developed and shown to the technical community; in all the cases they are all linked to some common negative characteristics like very heavy battery pack and overall airplane excessive weight, very expensive price, extremely limited autonomy, missing the possibility to be accepted in the market in comparison to conventional powertrains. Therefore, no real market penetration has been reached Business model: 2 different way of reaching the market 1 Sales of the hybrid airplane and hybrid power unit directly to the final customers 2 Sales of the Hybrid power unit to airplanes manufacturers
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10128 Torino
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L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.