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SENSors and certifiable hybrid architectures FOR safer aviation in ICing Environment

Descrizione del progetto

Un’idea scottante potrebbe proteggere gli aerei da una minaccia molto fredda

Le goccioline sopraffuse più grandi sono una forma d’acqua particolarmente insidiosa quando si tratta di viaggi aerei. Rimangono liquide a temperature inferiori a 0 °C ma in uno stato instabile. Inoltre, è meno probabile che vengano deflesse dal flusso d’aria intorno al velivolo. Quando una di queste goccioline sopraffuse incontra una superficie del profilo alare, la parte che tocca il profilo si congela, ma il resto rimane liquido e viene soffiato indietro sulla superficie, congelando come nel primo punto di contatto fino a quando l’intera goccia non si è congelata, creando uno strato di ghiaccio liscio sulla superficie che è molto difficile da rimuovere. Il progetto SENS4ICE, finanziato dall’UE, sta sviluppando un nuovo sistema di sensori per rilevare la formazione di ghiaccio prima che diventi pericoloso per il volo, sfruttando una combinazione di tecniche dirette e indirette, tra cui il monitoraggio sia dell’accrescimento del ghiaccio sulla cellula che delle condizioni atmosferiche.

Obiettivo

Modern aeroplanes are well equipped to cope with most common icing conditions. However, some conditions consisting of supercooled large droplets (SLD) have been the cause of tragic accidents over the last three decades. It was proven that there are certain types of aircraft which are not robust against these conditions as ice can form on unprotected areas of the lifting surfaces leading to loss of control. Consequently, authorities addressed these safety concerns by issuing new certification rules under Appendix O to ensure that future aircraft remain controllable in these conditions and can exit safely upon detection. Hence, the key to increasing overall aviation icing safety is the early and reliable detection of icing conditions to allow the necessary actions to be taken by the flight crew. SENS4ICE (SENSors and certifiable hybrid architectures for safer aviation in ICing Environment) directly addresses this need for reliable detection and discrimination of icing conditions. It proposes that an intelligent way to cope with the complex problem of ice detection is the hybridisation of different detection techniques: direct sensing of atmospheric conditions and/or ice accretion on the airframe, combined with indirect techniques in which the change of aircraft characteristics with ice accretion on the airframe is detected. SENS4ICE will address the development, test, validation, and maturation of the different detection principles, the hybridisation - in close cooperation with regulators to provide an acceptable means of compliance - and the final airborne demonstration of technology capabilities in relevant natural icing conditions. The contribution of SENS4ICE to increase aviation safety will be achieved by an international consortium of 20 partners (13 EU, 7 non-EU) with contributions from Brazil, Canada, Russia and the US. The 4-year project requests an overall EU-funding of 6.6M€ and benefits from a further 5.4M€ of activities being provided by the non-EU partners.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-MG-2018-2019-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-MG-2018-SingleStage-INEA

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 600 912,81
Indirizzo
LINDER HOHE
51147 Koln
Germania

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Regione
Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tipo di attività
Research Organisations
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 600 912,81

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