HELP AVIATION INTO A CLEANER FUTURE

Announcement:  

The IEEE/AIAA Transportation Electrification Conference and Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (ITEC+EATS) invites you to participate in the 2022 Aerospace Student Design Challenge.

Introduction:

Since 2007, aviation’s impact on climate change has been an increasing concern, principally focused on noise emission and CO2 emissions from the combustion of jet fuel. Advanced hybrid vehicle propulsion systems are very promising technologies for significant fuel consumption reduction and for reducing emission, without compromising vehicle performance (safety, comfort, flight envelope, etc.). Thinking of powertrain design, there are many trade-off challenges for the designer tackling the combined problem of energy management and electrified powertrain. In this spirit, the challenge for this year student competition is to find a holistic approach for electrified powertrain design, known to involve simultaneously a burdensome number of strongly coupled variables.Since 2007, aviation’s impact on climate change has been an increasing concern, principally focused on noise emission and CO2 emissions from the combustion of jet fuel. Advanced hybrid vehicle propulsion systems are very promising technologies for significant fuel consumption reduction and for reducing emission, without compromising vehicle performance (safety, comfort, flight envelope, etc.). Thinking of powertrain design, there are many trade-off challenges for the designer tackling the combined problem of energy management and electrified powertrain. In this spirit, the challenge for this year student competition is to find a holistic approach for electrified powertrain design, known to involve simultaneously a burdensome number of strongly coupled variables.

Challenge:

QUESTION = With the goal of consuming less fuel and emitting less noise, design a hybrid powertrain (e.g., Serial-Hybrid, Parallel-Hybrid, Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells, …) retrofitting a Dornier/RUAG Do 228NG aircraft (19PAX) as an alternative aircraft to fly on an existing route from Boston (BOS) to New York (JFK). Estimation of CO2 emissions and noise emissions should be performed for your design and compared with the conventional Dornier 228 aircraft.

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