The increased awareness towards air transport pollution has pushed for ambitious sustainability objectives to achieve within year 2050. As new technologies emerge, researchers are investigating innovative aircraft and powertrain configurations to explore potential fuel-burn savings, either retrofitting an existing aircraft or defining a new conceptual design. This work investigates the possibilities given by a turbo-electric powertrain coupled with distributed electric propulsion on a regional turboprop aircraft, presenting a method for preliminary aircraft design and exploring the results offered by a simple evaluation of the aero-propulsive interactions. With the actual technology, a potential 5% reduction in fuel consumption should be achievable on a 500 nm mission with 42 passengers. Although it is not a disruptive result, this paves the way for further investigations, indicating where improvements may be achieved.

An approach to preliminary sizing of turbo-electric aircraft with distributed propulsion / Ciliberti, Danilo; Orefice, Francesco; DELLA VECCHIA, Pierluigi; Nicolosi, Fabrizio; Corcione, Salvatore. - (2019), pp. 227-235. (Intervento presentato al convegno AIDAA 2019 - XXV International Congress of Aeronautics and Astronautics tenutosi a Roma nel 9-12 Settembre 2019).

An approach to preliminary sizing of turbo-electric aircraft with distributed propulsion

Danilo Ciliberti
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
;
Francesco Orefice
Validation
;
Pierluigi Della Vecchia
Supervision
;
Fabrizio Nicolosi
Funding Acquisition
;
Salvatore Corcione
Visualization
2019

Abstract

The increased awareness towards air transport pollution has pushed for ambitious sustainability objectives to achieve within year 2050. As new technologies emerge, researchers are investigating innovative aircraft and powertrain configurations to explore potential fuel-burn savings, either retrofitting an existing aircraft or defining a new conceptual design. This work investigates the possibilities given by a turbo-electric powertrain coupled with distributed electric propulsion on a regional turboprop aircraft, presenting a method for preliminary aircraft design and exploring the results offered by a simple evaluation of the aero-propulsive interactions. With the actual technology, a potential 5% reduction in fuel consumption should be achievable on a 500 nm mission with 42 passengers. Although it is not a disruptive result, this paves the way for further investigations, indicating where improvements may be achieved.
2019
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An approach to preliminary sizing of turbo-electric aircraft with distributed propulsion / Ciliberti, Danilo; Orefice, Francesco; DELLA VECCHIA, Pierluigi; Nicolosi, Fabrizio; Corcione, Salvatore. - (2019), pp. 227-235. (Intervento presentato al convegno AIDAA 2019 - XXV International Congress of Aeronautics and Astronautics tenutosi a Roma nel 9-12 Settembre 2019).
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