Clean-fuel Efficient Rim-rotor Architecture MICroturbogenerator (CERAMIC)

混合电力推进需要清洁和高效的新能源，大大超过电池的能量密度，并抵消氢气和合成燃料等碳中性燃料的额外成本。Exonetik Turbo的涡轮发电机是与Sherbrooke大学合作开发的，通过将陶瓷叶片可靠地集成在由内向外的配置中，有可能将目前的小型燃气轮机的效率提高近一倍，并在接近零排放的情况下运行。在之前的NSERC/CRIAQ项目中，通过一个概念验证涡轮样机的100小时试验，成功地证明了技术的可行性。根据这一概念验证，这个拟议的项目旨在开发热区(燃烧室和涡轮机)的关键技术，以使发动机以目标性能运行数千小时。特别是，该团队将开发并集成到涡轮发电机中：用于轮毂叶片的无蠕变保持系统、绝缘的低冷却碳聚酰亚胺结构护罩和超低NOx高度恢复的微混合燃烧器，这三个关键部件在上一个项目中确定。该项目的成功将通过将这些技术集成到一个完整的、可行的、更接近市场的原型中，在模拟环境中验证这些技术。在这个项目之后，与合作伙伴的产品开发和商业化将在魁北克的航空部门带来高素质的工作岗位。一旦投放市场，这种涡轮发电机预计仅在加拿大部署的头十年就可以节省1200万吨二氧化碳，全球潜力是加拿大的几倍。

Hybrid-electric propulsion requires clean and highly efficient new power sources to drastically exceed battery energy density and offset the additional cost of carbon neutral fuels such as hydrogen and synfuel. Exonetik Turbo's turbogenerator, created in partnership with Université de Sherbrooke, has the potential to almost double the efficiency of current small gas turbines and operate at near-zero emissions by the reliable integration of ceramic blades in an inside-out configuration. The technology feasibility was successfully demonstrated with a 100h-test of a proof-of-concept turbine prototype during the previous NSERC/CRIAQ project. Following this proof of concept, this proposed project aims at developing the critical technologies of the hot section (combustor and turbine) to operate the engine for thousands of hours with targeted performance. In particular, the team will develop and integrate in a turbogenerator: a creep-free retaining system for the blades in the hub, an insulated low-cooling carbon-polyimide structural shroud and an ultra-low-NOx highly recuperated micromix combustor, three of the critical components identified in the previous project. Success of this project will validate the technologies in a simulated environment through their integration in a complete, viable, closer-to-market prototype. Following this project, product development and commercialization with partners will lead to highly qualified jobs in the aeronautics sector here in Quebec. Once on the market, the turbogenerator is projected to save 12 megatonnes of CO2 during its first ten years of deployment in Canada only, with worldwide potential several times greater.