Thursday, April 28, 2022

Notes Day 1 National workshop on electric aircraft and allied technologies - 1

Dr Abhay Pashilkar, BTECH IIT Kharagpur
  1. Passenger traffic to be 520 million bt 2037
  2. Aircraft fleet to be 2500 by 2038
  3. Aircraft movement grew by 9.56% in 2016-2020
  4. India is already 3rd largest domestic aviation market
  5. India set to become 3rd largest overall aviation market
  6. GIFT city to have leasing and finance of airlines through international financial services center 
  7.  Motor to be hallbach array based on ironless motor
  8. battery energy density of 1150 whr/kg required
  9. For PAX less than 19 seater , hydrogen aircrafts are viable.
  10. UK has flyzero concept for zero emission aircraft
  11. ATR72-600 is improved into ATR72-2030 capable of using sustainable aviation fuel
  12. Small aircraft can be powered by Synthetic aviation fuel SAF, hybrid, electric and fuel cell
  13. Distributed propulsion is more effecient for aerodynamics

A C Pankaj on E-HANSA

  1. MTOW 750 kg for JAR VLA aircraft
  2.  Hansa is an all composite low wing monoplane powered by Rotax 912 iSc engine 100 hp
  3. Drag Coeff = 0.0327 + 0.055 Cl^2
  4. TO = 56.8 kW
  5. Climb = 45.9kW
  6. Cruise = 28.8 kW
  7. Descent = 3 kW
  8. Engine fuel = 113.4 kg
  9. Propeller = 6 kg
  10. Chosen motor = Emrax, 500VDC , 5500 RPM, slovenian motor
  11. motor = 12.3 kg
  12. controller = 7.7 kg
  13. Cooler = 6.0 kg
  14. Battery reqd for TO = 72 kg
  15. Battery reqd for Cruise = 55 kg
  16. Fuel enery density = 1250 Whr/kg
  17. Present battery = 272 whr/kg
  18. Endurance  = 52 mn
  19. Range = 126 km
  20. Total energy reqd for a typical mission = 35.6 kW/hr
  21. To carry one kg of H2, 26 kg of composite tank is required.
  22. For small aircraft = battery is best
  23. For medium aircraft = hybric configuration is best
  24. For large aircraft = One fuel cell is better
  25. Safety and reliability of electrical power systems is still unproven
  26. Battery degradation over the life needed to be considered for range calculation

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