Overview

Increasing social demand to reduce fuel consumption, emissions and noise leads to the adoption of a new approach when designing systems. Two domains have been identified in the Systems for Green Operations ITD as major contributors to the achievement of the green challenges:

1. The Management of Aircraft Energy (MAE), which includes the two focus areas of “All-Electric Aircraft Equipment Systems Architectures” and “Thermal Management”

2. The Management of Aircraft Trajectory and Mission (MTM), which includes the two focus areas of “Management of trajectory and Mission” and “Smart Ground Operations”

The ITD will deliver solutions that are integrated at aircraft level, fully demonstrated in realistic operational conditions and proven against the environmental challenges.

Activities and demonstrators

Technologies developed in the Management of Aircraft Energy, new architectures and technologies for a more Electrical Aircraft will be developed, including: power generation, distribution, conversion and storage. This includes improvement/development of the individual new electrical systems with higher power/weight ratio. Also, the implementation of electrical energy management functions will be developed and the thermal management will be improved by reduction of energy losses and optimization of hot and cold sources on board an aircraft.

For the second area, Management of Trajectory and Mission, capabilities to define complete flight profiles optimized for multi criteria, including environmental impact will be developed.

For operations on the ground, a highly integrated system, using a wheel embedded electrical motor for aircraft motion on the airport surface will be developed.

Demonstrations will include the flight testing of mature architectures, as well as the use of ground based hardware test rigs, notably:

• thermal and electrical benches for energy
• operational labs for trajectory and missions

Participants

Leaders of the SGO ITD are Thales and Liebherr. The following Members and Partners are involved in SGO ITD:

Members

Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH; Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS; Liebherr-Elektronik GmbH; Thales Avionics; Thales Avionics Electrical Systems S.A; Thales Systèmes Aéroportés S.A; Airbus SAS; Airbus France SAS; Airbus Deutschland GmbH; Airbus UK Limited; Saab AB; Alenia Aermacchi ; Rolls-Royce; Safran; Aircelle; Hispano-Suiza; Labinal; Messier-Bugatti; Messier-Dowty SA; Techspace Aero; Technofan; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zodiac-intertechnique; Zodiac ECE; Zodiac Aérazur; University of Nottingham; DLR; EADS IW Deutschland GmbH; Green Systems for Aircraft Foundation (GSAF); Aeronamic BV; NLR; TU – Delft; University of Malta; Cranfi eld University; Diehl Aerospace GmbH; Galileo Avionica

Partners

Von Karman institute; Université libre de Bruxelles; LMS;SONACA;GKN Industries; Aerotex; Fatronik; Envisa; U of Manchester;  Atmosphere; U du Pirée; Open Airlines