Engine Breakthrough Components and Subsystems (E-BREAK)
Research Project, 2012
– 2016
Future aero engines will need to be more efficient and contribute to the reduction on environmental impact of air transportation. They must reach some standards of performance by reducing emissions and creating some savings on operation costs.EIMG consortium has launched since several years some initiatives to develop future engines in the frame of the European Committee research programmes.Within different project such as DREAM, VITAL, NEWAC or LEMCOTEC, EIMG is ensuring the development of innovative technologies in order to further reduce the fuel burn, emissions and noise.In order to ensure the technological breakthrough, future aero-engines will have higher overall pressure ratios (OPR) to increase thermal efficiency and will have higher bypass ratios (BPR) to increase propulsive efficiency. These lead to smaller and hotter high pressure cores.As core engine technologies have been addressed in the previous project, E-BREAK project will ensure the mandatory evolution of sub-systems.It is indeed required for enabling integration of engine with new core technologies to develop adequate technologies for sub-systems. E-BREAK will aim to adapt sub-systems to new constraints of temperature and pressure.The overall picture of these initiatives bring all technology bricks to a TRL level ensuring the possibility to integrate them in a new aero engines generation before 2020.In its 2020 vision, ACARE aims to reduce by 50% per passenger kilometer CO2 emissions with an engine contribution targeting a decrease by 15 to 20% of the SFC. NOX emissions would have to be reduced by 80 % and efforts need to be made on other emissions.E-BREAK will be an enabler of the future UHOPR integrated engine development, completing efforts done in previous or in on-going Level 2 programs.
Participants
Tomas Grönstedt (contact)
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Fluid Dynamics
Collaborations
AAC Microtec
Uppsala, Sweden
Alcimed
Paris, France
Alstom Power
Rugby, United Kingdom
Avio
Torino, Italy
Bauhaus Luftfahrt
Munchen, Germany
CEIT - Centre of Studies and Technical Research
San Sebastian, Spain
Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique Asbl (Cenaero)
Gosselies, Belgium
Centro de Tecnologías Aeronáuticas (CTA)
Minano (Alava), Spain
Dutchaero
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Ecole Nationale D'ingenieurs De Tarbes
Tarbes, France
Enginsoft Spa
Trento, Italy
GE Avio
Rivalta Di Torino, Italy
GKN Aerospace Sweden
Trollhättan, Sweden
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Köln, Germany
Ghent university
Gent, Belgium
HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
Rapperswil, Switzerland
ITP
Zamudio-Vizcaya, Spain
Institut Superieur de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace
Toulouse, France
Instytut Maszyn Przeplywowych im Roberta Szewalskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk - IMP PAN
Gdansk, Poland
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany
MTU Aero Engines
Munchen, Germany
National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Office national d'etudes et de recherches aerospatiales (ONERA)
Chatillon, France
Polytechnic University of Milan
Milano, Italy
Polytechnic University of Turin
Torino, Italy
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany
Rolls-Royce Deutschland
Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany
Rolls-Royce PLC
London, United Kingdom
Snecma
Paris, France
Sulzer Metco
Wohlen, Switzerland
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Techspace Aero
Milmort Herstal, Belgium
Turbomeca
Bordes, France
University of Genoa
Genova, Italy
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard
Belfort, France
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Bruxelles, Belgium
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
WSK PZL - Rzeszow
Rzeszow, Poland
Funding
European Commission (EC)
Project ID: EC/FP7/314366
Funding Chalmers participation during 2012–2016
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