Low Emissions Core-Engine Technologies (LEMCOTEC)
Forskningsprojekt, 2011 – 2015

The main objective of the LEMCOTEC project will be the improvement of core-engine thermal efficiency by increasing the overall pressure ratio (OPR) to up to 70 leading to a further reduction of CO2. Since NOx increases with OPR, combustion technologies have to be further developed, at the same time, to at least compensate for this effect. The project will attain and exceed the ACARE targets for 2020 and will be going beyond the CO2 reductions to be achieved by on-going FP6 and FP7 programmes including Clean Sky:1.) CO2: minus 50% per passenger kilometre by 2020, with an engine contribution of 15 to 20%, 2.) NOx: minus 80% by 2020 and 3.) Reduce other emissions: soot, CO, UHC, SOx, particulates.The major technical subjects to be addressed by the project are:1.) Innovative compressor for the ultra-high pressure ratio cycle (OPR 70) and associated thermal management technologies, 2.) Combustor-turbine interaction for higher turbine efficiency & ultra-high OPR cycles, 3.) Low NOx combustion systems for ultra-high OPR cycles, 4.) Advanced structures to enable high OPR engines & integration with heat exchangers, 5.) Reduced cooling requirements and stiffer structures for turbo-machinery efficiency, 6.) HP/IP compressor stability control.The first four subjects will enable the engine industry to extend their design space beyond the overall pressure ratio of 50, which is the practical limit in the latest engines. Rig testing is required to validate the respective designs as well as the simulation tools to be developed. The last two subjects have already been researched on the last two subjects by NEWAC. The technology developed in NEWAC (mainly component and / or breadboard validation in a laboratory environment) will be driven further in LEMCOTEC for UHPR core engines. These technologies will be validated at a higher readiness level of up to TRL 5 (component and / or breadboard validation in a relevant environment) for ultra-high OPR core-engines.

Deltagare

Tomas Grönstedt (kontakt)

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Strömningslära

Xin Zhao

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Strömningslära

Samarbetspartners

Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis

Thessaloniki, Greece

Arttic

Paris, France

Avio

Torino, Italy

Bauhaus Luftfahrt

Munchen, Germany

Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS)

Toulouse, France

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Paris, France

Centro de Tecnologías Aeronáuticas (CTA)

Minano (Alava), Spain

Cranfield University

Cranfield - Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

Köln, Germany

Ergon Research

Firenze, Italy

Federalnoe Gosudarstvennoe Unitarnoe Predpriyatie Centralnii Institutaviacionogo Motorostroeniya Imeni Pi Baranova

Moskva, Russia

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Munchen, Germany

GKN Aerospace Sweden

Trollhättan, Sweden

ITP

Zamudio-Vizcaya, Spain

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Karlsruhe, Germany

Loughborough University

Loughborough, United Kingdom

MTU Aero Engines

Munchen, Germany

Office national d'etudes et de recherches aerospatiales (ONERA)

Chatillon, France

PBS Velka Bites

Velka Bites, Czech Republic

PCA Engineers

Lincoln, United Kingdom

Rolls-Royce Deutschland

Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany

Rolls-Royce PLC

London, United Kingdom

RWTH Aachen University

Aachen, Germany

Snecma

Paris, France

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Braunschweig, Germany

Technische Universität Dresden

Dresden, Germany

The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

Rhode Saint Genese, Belgium

Turbomeca

Bordes, France

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

Universita degli Studi di Firenze

Florence, Italy

Universität Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Germany

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

Vyzkumny a zkusebni letecky ustav

Praha-Letnany, Czech Republic

WSK PZL - Rzeszow

Rzeszow, Poland

Finansiering

Europeiska kommissionen (EU)

Projekt-id: EC/FP7/283216
Finansierar Chalmers deltagande under 2011–2015

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2020-09-02