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Hydrogen Engine Architecture Virtually Engineered Novelly

Descrizione del progetto

Un passo avanti verso motori aeronautici a idrogeno e a zero emissioni

Sulla scia del successo della famiglia di motori Trent, il costruttore di motori Rolls-Royce ha sviluppato l’UltraFan, il motore aeronautico più grande del mondo. Si tratta di un design dotato di un sistema di ventole a passo variabile che dovrebbe alimentare aerei a fusoliera stretta e larga e migliorare l’efficienza del carburante del 25 %. Il progetto HEAVEN, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà sensibilmente l’architettura scalabile UltraFan e la suite di tecnologie Rolls-Royce per l’aviazione civile del futuro, fornendo una piattaforma per le tecnologie a idrogeno e ibrido-elettriche. Numerose tecnologie abilitanti innovative già sviluppate come prova di concetto (di livello di maturità 3) saranno incorporate in questa nuova architettura per migliorare l’efficienza delle turbine a gas.

Obiettivo

Climate-neutral aviation will require the use of alternative fuels such as Green Hydrogen and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) combined with the power density of an ultra-efficient gas turbine engine for the Short and Medium Range (SMR) aircraft market which corresponds to approximately 50% of the current share of air transport emissions. Rolls-Royce (represented within the HEAVEN project by RR-UK & RR-D) supported by key UK and European academia, industry and research centres are currently developing a new generation of very high bypass ratio geared engine architecture called UltraFan® which was started in 2014. From the beginning this ducted engine architecture has been designed to be scalable and meet the needs both of widebody and SMR markets. To achieve the necessary 20% fuel burn reduction Rolls-Royce proposes to significantly evolve the UltraFan design. The evolved engine architecture design will take the next steps in improving the efficiency of the gas turbine, take advantage of the properties of net zero carbon fuels such as Hydrogen to improve efficiency, combining this with Hybrid electric technology to reduce wasted energy. Numerous innovative enabling technologies already at TRL3 will be incorporated into this new architecture to improve the gas turbine efficiency. Together with work on Hydrogen in CAVENDISH (HRA-01) and Hybrid Electric in HE-ART (HER-01) Clean Aviation projects in conjunction with activities in national and regional programmes, this will be synergistically combined to validate up to TRL6 the highly innovative UltraFan design to support a 2035 EIS. HEAVEN brings together a highly specialised European industrial and academic consortium already strongly involved and familiar with the UltraFan programme. Additionally, the partner easyJet, European airline operator who have the largest fleet of European manufactured SMR aircraft operating in Europe, will bring an in depth knowledge of operational requirements and impact in this market.

Coordinatore

ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 7 304 989,75
Indirizzo
Eschenweg 11
15827 Blankenfelde-Mahlow
Germania

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Regione
Brandenburg Brandenburg Teltow-Fläming
Tipo di attività
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 11 031 825,00

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