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Assessment of All-Electric General Aviation Aircraft [PDF]

Energies, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to describe the upcoming changes that will bring the transition from piston engines to all-electric aircrafts. The article focuses on the differences in operation of small general aviation aircrafts.
Jakub Hospodka, Helena Bínová, Stanislav Pleninger   +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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Characterizing Semiconductor Devices for All-Electric Aircraft

IEEE Access, 2023
Cryogenic propulsion with hydrogen fuel cells replacing fossil fuels is a promising solution to cut carbon emissions in the aviation sector. Hydrogen will also be used for cooling the superconducting machines and power converter circuits.
Abdelrahman Elwakeel, Neville Mcneill, Rafael Pena Alzola, Ravi Kiran Surapaneni, Gowtham Galla, Ludovic Ybanez, Min Zhang, Weijia Yuan   +7 more
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Discussion on Electric Power Supply Systems for All Electric Aircraft [PDF]

IEEE Access, 2020
The electric power supply system is one of the most important research areas within sustainable and energy-efficient aviation for more- and especially all electric aircraft. This paper discusses the history in electrification, current trends with a broad
Hendrik Schefer, Leon Fauth, Tobias H. Kopp, Regine Mallwitz, Jens Friebe, Michael Kurrat   +5 more
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A Hybrid Storage Systems for All Electric Aircraft [PDF]

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., Damiano A., Campagna N., Castiglia V., Miceli R., Di Tommaso A. O.   +5 more
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Structural Power Performance Targets for Future Electric Aircraft [PDF]

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, Sang N. Nguyen, Emile S. Greenhalgh, Milo S. P. Shaffer, Anthony R. J. Kucernak, Peter Linde   +5 more
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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, Steven R. H. Barrett, Khan Doyme, Lynnette M. Dray, Albert R. Gnadt, Rod Self, Aidan O’Sullivan, Athanasios P. Synodinos, Antonio J. Torija   +8 more
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Review of Cryogenic Power Electronics for All-Electric Aircraft

IEEE Access
To tackle emissions from the aviation industry and make it sustainable, research has been targeting electrifying aircraft. For this aim, articles have been focusing on how to replace regular jet engines with liquid hydrogen as fuel.
Abdelrahman Elwakeel, Yuchuan Liao, Yudi Xiao, Rafael Pena Alzola, Min Zhang, Weijia Yuan   +5 more
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Materials Challenges in the Development of All-Electric Aircraft [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
The global climate crisis has worsened as greenhouse gas emissions from production and transport activities have increased significantly. The idea of an all-electric airplane has been put out in reaction to the aviation industry’s fast expansion’s ...
Fei Yue
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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., Di Fede F., Corpino S., Iodice P., Cerino G.   +4 more
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