HEAVEN - Hydrogen Engine Architecture Virtually Engineered Novelly

HEAVEN - 氢发动机架构采用虚拟设计新颖

• 批准号: 10063278
• 金额: $ 339.72万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
• 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=10063278
• 关键词: HEAVEN; Hydrogen; Engine; Architecture; Virtually

Climate-neutral aviation will require the use of alternative fuels such as Green Hydrogen and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) combined with the power density of an ultra-efficient gas turbine engine for the Small and Medium Range (SMR) market which corresponds to approximately 50% of the current share of air transport emissions. Rolls-Royce (represented within the HEAVEN project by RR-UK, RR-D and ITP) supported by key UK and European academia, industry and research centres are currently developing a new generation of very high bypass ratio geared engine architecture called UltraFan® which was started in 2014. From the beginning this ducted engine architecture has been designed to be scalable and meet the needs both of widebody and SMR markets. To achieve the necessary 20% fuel burn reduction Rolls-Royce proposes to significantly evolve the UltraFan design into UltraFan H2. The evolved engine architecture design will take the next steps in improving the efficiency of the gas turbine, take advantage of the properties of net zero carbon fuels such as Hydrogen to improve efficiency, combining this with Hybrid electric technology to reduce wasted energy. Numerous innovative enabling technologies already at TR3 will be incorporated into this new architecture to improve the gas turbine efficiency. Together with work proposed on Hydrogen in CAVENDISH (HRA-01) and Hybrid Electric in HE-ART (HER-01) Clean Aviation proposals in conjunction with activities in national and regional programmes, this will be synergistically combined to validate up to TRL6 the highly innovative UltraFan H2 design to support a 2035 EIS. HEAVEN brings together a highly specialised European industrial and academic consortium already strongly involved and familiar with the UltraFan programme. Additionally, the partner easyJet, European airline operator who have the largest fleet of European manufactured SMR aircraft operating in Europe will bring an in depth knowledge of operational requirements.

气候中性航空将需要使用绿色氢和可持续航空燃料 (SAF) 等替代燃料，并结合中小型 (SMR) 市场的超高效燃气涡轮发动机的功率密度，该市场相当于目前航空运输排放量的约 50%。罗尔斯·罗伊斯（在 HEAVEN 项目中以 RR-UK、RR-D 和 ITP 为代表）在英国和欧洲主要学术界、工业和研究中心的支持下，目前正在开发新一代极高涵道比齿轮发动机架构，称为 UltraFan®，该架构于 2014 年启动。从一开始，这种涵道发动机架构就被设计为可扩展，并满足宽体和 SMR 市场的需求。为了实现必要的 20% 燃油消耗减少，罗尔斯·罗伊斯建议将 UltraFan 设计大幅改进为 UltraFan H2。改进后的发动机架构设计将采取下一步措施提高燃气轮机的效率，利用氢气等净零碳燃料的特性来提高效率，并将其与混合电动技术相结合以减少能源浪费。 TR3 已有的众多创新支持技术将被纳入这一新架构中，以提高燃气轮机效率。与 CAVENDISH 中的氢 (HRA-01) 和 HE-ART (HER-01) 中的混合电动清洁航空提案中提出的工作以及国家和地区计划中的活动相结合，这将协同结合，以验证高度创新的 UltraFan H2 设计高达 TRL6，以支持 2035 年 EIS。 HEAVEN 汇集了高度专业化的欧洲工业和学术联盟，该联盟已经积极参与并熟悉 UltraFan 计划。此外，合作伙伴易捷航空（欧洲航空公司）拥有最大的欧洲制造 SMR 飞机机队，在欧洲运营，将带来有关运营要求的深入了解。