Project description
Designing new hybrid aircraft thermal management solutions
Regional and short/medium-range aircraft with hybrid electric power and propulsion systems generate excess heat, making onboard thermal management important. In this context, the EU funded TheMa4HERA project will develop, design and test innovative technologies to address the challenge of handling heat dissipation in the range of 300 to 1 000 kW, compared to the current 35-50 kW capacity of thermal management systems. To simulate and optimise component-level requirements for any given aircraft architecture, the project will develop a full digital twin. It will validate and demonstrate its results in a full scale test facility, and dissemination activities will ensure stakeholder support.
Objective
The TheMa4HERA project takes on the huge challenge of on-board thermal management that comes with the introduction of hybrid electric power and propulsion systems in Regional and Short and Medium Range aircraft. This will be achieved through development, design and testing at TRL 5 of wide range of innovative technologies from Air Supply, to Air Conditioning, Systems Thermal Management to Cabin Air Distribution. Whereas today’s thermal management systems need to handle a heat dissipation of about 35-50kW, tomorrow’s hybrid electric regional aircraft will have to handle heat dissipation in the range of 300 to 1.000kW! With a consortium composed out of all key aerospace players in the market of thermal management, this project will address almost all currently known thermal management technologies. Multiple two-way interactions loops with TRA-01 will be established integration requirements and feedback constraints and validation results, to allow for further aircraft architecture optimization iterations. Through the development of a full digital twin, the project will be able to simulate and optimize component level requirements for any given aircraft architecture. This architecture will be taken from the EXACT project, adjusted and refined throughout the project, to eventually reflect the final Hybrid Electric Aircraft architecture. The project will validate and demonstrate its results in a full-scale demonstration test facility at Fraunhofer IBP. With the further refined models, that will be available by then, the project will also be able to calculate the achievements towards the Expected Outcomes, in particular the environmental footprint. The Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation actions will make sure that all necessary stakeholders will also be supportive to the EIS of the first Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft relying on TheMa4HERA thermal management technologies.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringelectric energy
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineeringheat engineering
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
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65479 Raunheim
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21129 Hamburg
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28906 Getafe
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00195 Roma
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28906 Getafe (Madrid)
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T23 Cork
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00185 ROMA
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60388 Frankfurt Am Main
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31200 Toulouse
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88131 Lindau
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75008 Paris
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48170 Zamudio-Vizcaya
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48170 Zamudio
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51147 Koln
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1059 CM Amsterdam
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80686 Munchen
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01510 Minano (Alava)
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1400 Nivelles
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35122 Padova
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28040 Madrid
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1018 Lausanne
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OX14 3DB Abingdon
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RG121EB Bracknell Berks
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