H2LSPC delivered impacts in all of the four areas that the Clean Sky programme seeks to support. The ways in which the project supported each goal are as summarised below:
• Technology: H2LSPC delivers a paradigm shift in solid-state protection devices operating at voltages higher than 1 kV, with currents higher than 1 kA and in altitudes of higher than 30,000 feet, which translates to low temperatures and low atmospheric pressure. It provides a clear understanding of the challenges of moving to higher voltages, opportunities to maximise performance and reliability in design and knowledge about the methods that can be used to test and qualify such systems for use on board modern aircraft.
• Environmental Impact: H2LSPC delivers solid-state current limiting and circuit breaking architectures and technologies that forms a key component of the hybrid propulsion system of the future, contributing to the vision of delivering CO2 savings of 25-35% compared to today’s technologies. The project also seeks to minimise the mass and weight of the component providing further incremental benefits in performance at system level.
• Industrial Leadership: H2LSPC brings together key European technical and scientific experts who can collectively exploit these technologies. The developed solutions, both in technologies and topologies, are able to cope with the stress of operating in harsh environments and are applicable to a wide range of industrial sectors (transportation, renewable energies, power distribution). Some of the consortium members are engaged in standardisation activities that are an essential part of the pathway to taking a new technology from demonstrator to product.
• Enhanced Mobility: H2LSPC contributes to the opening of new business models and new routes as hybrid aircraft requires less fuel and hence and is able to operate from airports that do not have the capacity to service high fuel demand.
