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Modelling Green VTOL Concept Designs for Reliability and Efficiency
Designs, 2021 All-electric and hybrid-electric aircraft are a future transport goal and a possible ‘green’ solution to increasing climate-related pressures for aviation.
Julian David Booker +2 more
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Perspectives and Development of Electrical Systems in More Electric Aircraft
International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2021 On-board electrical systems are the key components of each modern aircraft. They enable its safer, more comfortable, and environmentally friendlier operation.
Ahmet Yigit Arabul +6 more
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Toward more electric powertrains in aircraft: Technical challenges and advancements
CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems, 2021 The main purpose of this article is to provide an instructive review of the technological challenges hindering the road toward more electric powertrains in aircraft.
Joseph Benzaquen +2 more
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Electric Power Systems in More and All Electric Aircraft: A Review
IEEE Access, 2020 Narrow body and wide body aircraft are responsible for more than 75% of aviation greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and aviation, itself, was responsible for about 2.5% of all GHG emissions in the United States in 2018.
Ashkan Barzkar, Mona Ghassemi
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Structural Power Performance Targets for Future Electric Aircraft
Energies, 2021 The development of commercial aviation is being driven by the need to improve efficiency and thereby lower emissions. All-electric aircraft present a route to eliminating direct fuel burning emissions, but their development is stifled by the limitations ...
Elitza Karadotcheva +5 more
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A Hybrid Storage Systems for All Electric Aircraft
2021 IEEE 15th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG), 2021 A hybrid energy storage system specifically designed for a fully electric aircraft is presented in the paper. The analysis of the time evolution of the power demand of the electric propulsion system during a test mission of Maxwell X-57, an all-electric aircraft developed by NASA, has pointed out the presence of significant peak power during take-off ...
Bossi G. +5 more
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Drive unit characteristics of a completely electrical passenger aircraft
Power Electronics and Drives, 2020 Aviation has, over the years, become an inseparable element of human life. Airplanes are very commonly used for various tasks, such as transport of passengers and goods, military attack and defence, rescue, recreation and so on.
Fąfara Jean-Marc
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Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft [PDF]
Nature Energy, 2018 Ever since the Wright brothers’ first powered flight in 1903, commercial aircraft have relied on liquid hydrocarbon fuels. However,\ud the need for greenhouse gas emission reductions along with recent progress in battery technology for automobiles has generated\ud strong interest in electric propulsion in aviation.
Andreas W. Schäfer +8 more
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ON-BOARD SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES FOR HYBRID/ALL-ELECTRIC REGIONAL AIRCRAFT [PDF]
ICAS 2021, 2021 The need for a more environmentally friendly aircraft is driving the designer towards the aircraft electrification. In particular, new aircraft concepts with hybrid-electric and full electric propulsion system are currently proposed. The propulsion system electrification also entails novel requirements for the aircraft on-board systems.
Fioriti M. +4 more
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Energies, 2021 The development of electric aircraft is becoming an important technology for achieving the goals set by the European Commission for the reduction of gases emissions by 2050 in the aeronautical transportation system.
Francisco Ferreira da Silva +2 more
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