InnovAtive DeMonstrator for hyBrid-Electric Regional Application (AMBER)

混合电动区域应用创新演示器 (AMBER)

• 批准号: 10064408
• 金额: $ 754.33万
• 依托单位: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10064408
• 关键词: InnovAtive; DeMonstrator; hyBrid; Electric; Regional

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 hybridelectric 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.

气候变化对当今社会提出了前所未有的挑战，许多研究强调迫切需要实现全球工业脱碳并大幅减少包括航空在内的所有行业的污染物排放。尽管如此，航空业对全球环境的影响主要是由中小型市场驱动的。由于飞机的运行量很大，只有在较小规模或规模的新型使能技术逐渐成熟之前，才能开发满足此类应用所需动力的颠覆性技术。飞机服务距离为 500 至 1000 公里，最多可容纳 100 个座位，因此将引领可持续发展之路，并且电池和液氢驱动的燃料电池技术还不够成熟，无法完全实现。相反，需要采取中间措施，到 2035 年大幅减少温室气体排放。开发至少 50% 混合动力的支线飞机混合电动推进系统就代表了这一点。与 2020 年最先进的支线飞机相比，这是一项具有挑战性但可实现的中间步骤，可将任务燃油消耗减少至少 50%。 允许使用 100% 航空可持续燃料的热力发动机将允许将生命周期温室气体排放量减少 90%，从而接近零排放。拟议的 AMBER 项目（混合动力电动区域应用创新演示器）解决了这一问题，并追求混合动力电动钥匙的成熟。组件和验证基于燃料电池的具有产品代表性的并联混合电力推进系统架构，用于到 2035 年配备 EIS 的下一代支线飞机，以实现 SRIA 和清洁航空主题呼吁中提出的雄心勃勃的环境目标。