Objective
The goal of ERICKA is to directly contribute to reductions in aircraft engine fuel consumption with a targeted contribution of 1% reduction in SFC relative to engines currently in service. The fuel efficiency of a jet engine used for aircraft propulsion is dependent on the performance of many key engine components. One of the most important is the turbine whose efficiency has a large influence on the engine fuel consumption and hence its CO2 emissions. The turbine must operate with high efficiency in the most hostile environment in the engine. The design of turbine cooling systems remains one of the most challenging processes in engine development. Modern high-pressure turbine cooling systems invariably combine internal convection cooling with external film cooling in complex flow systems whose individual features interact in complex ways. The heat transfer and cooling processes active are at the limit of current understanding and engine designers rely heavily on empirical tools and engineering judgement to produce new designs. ERICKA will provide a means of improving turbine blade cooling technology that will reduce turbine blade cooling mass-flow relative to that required using existing technology. A reduction in cooling mass-flow leads directly to improved component and engine efficiency. The improved technology for turbine cooling developed by ERICKA will also enable low NOx combustion chambers to be included in future engines. ERICKA will undertake research to furnish better understanding of the complex flows used to internally cool rotating turbine blades. This will be achieved by:- 1) Acquisition of high quality experimental data using static and rotating test facilities 2) Development of cooling design capability by enhancement of computer codes that will exploit these experimental data ERICKA groups 18 partners representing the European aero engine industry, five SMEs and a set of leading academic institutions.
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FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1
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CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
N1 9FX London
United Kingdom
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Participants (19)
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80995 MUENCHEN
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5401 Baden
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10040 Rivalta Di Torino
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48170 Zamudio-Vizcaya
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80995 Munchen
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15827 Blankenfelde-Mahlow
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75015 Paris
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6041 Gosselies
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CB1 3AN Cambridge
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38100 Trento
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1170 Bruxelles / Brussel
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91120 Palaiseau
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50121 Florence
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28040 Madrid
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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70174 Stuttgart
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80-231 Gdansk
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75008 Paris
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00187 ROMA
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