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InnovAtive DeMonstrator for hyBrid-Electric Regional Application

Descripción del proyecto

Volar alto gracias a la propulsión híbrido-eléctrica

Un sistema híbrido de propulsión-eléctrica para aeronaves de transporte regional se considera un paso prometedor hacia la consecución de una industria aeronáutica más sostenible. Para abordar el reto del cambio climático, el equipo del proyecto AMBER, financiado con fondos europeos, tratará de madurar, integrar y validar las tecnologías esenciales necesarias para un sistema híbrido de propulsión eléctrica de megavatios alimentado por pilas de combustible de hidrógeno. Esto reducirá significativamente las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y el consumo de combustible en al menos un 50 % en comparación con las aeronaves de transporte regional de última generación de 2020. En AMBER se reconoce la importancia de la aviación regional a la hora de liderar el camino hacia la sostenibilidad y alcanzar ambiciosos objetivos medioambientales. El proyecto es un paso hacia la descarbonización de la aviación y la reducción de las emisiones contaminantes.

Objetivo

Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge on today’s society. Numerous studies highlight the urgent need to decarbonize global industry and to drastically reduce pollutant emissions across all sectors, including aviation. Although, the global environmental impact of aviation is mostly driven by small-medium range market aircraft due to the large volume of operations, the development of disruptive technologies for the power demands such applications require cannot be put in place until progressive maturation of novel enabling technologies has been achieved at lower scale or sizes. The transformation of regional aviation, i.e. aircraft serving distances of 500 to 1000 km at a capacity of up to 100 seats, will thus lead the way towards sustainability and will be of particular importance. Both battery and liquid hydrogen powered fuel cell technology will not be sufficiently matured to allow the realization of a fully electric regional aircraft within the next decade. Instead, an intermediate step will be required to significantly reduce GHG emissions already by 2035. The development of a hybrid-electric propulsion system for regional aircraft with at least 50% hybridization represents this very challenging, yet achievable intermediate step and can allow for a mission fuel burn reduction by at least 50% compared to 2020 state-of-the-art regional aircraft. A thermal engine that allows for usage of 100% sustainable aviation fuel, will allow to reduce lifecycle GHG emissions by 90% and thus close to zero. The proposed project AMBER (innovAtive deMonstrator for hyBrid-Electric Regional application) addresses this aspect and pursues the maturation of hybrid-electric key components and the validation of a product-representative parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system architecture, fuel cell based, for next-generation regional aircraft with EIS by 2035 to meet the ambitious environmental goals set out in SRIA and the Clean Aviation topic call.

Coordinador

GE AVIO SRL
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 8 334 184,75
Dirección
VIA I MAGGIO 99
10040 Rivalta Di Torino
Italia

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Región
Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino
Tipo de actividad
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 12 157 528,21

Participantes (20)

Socios (1)