HECATE Clean Aviation Project | Final Project Overview

Описание: Final video overview of the HECATE project in which L-UP was involved as a subcontractor to support project management, communication and dissemination management. This video highlights key project achievements, supported by stakeholders' interviews and lab' visit in Safran facility (Niort, France).
The HECATE project addresses the associated challenges of system weight and power density, high voltage challenges with lightning, arcing and electromagnetic interference as well as optimized thermal management, in addition to digitizing the design process with digital twins. This leads to transformative technology bricks, which are holistically optimized at system integration architecture level. The HECATE project demonstrates a sup. 500 kW architecture in a copper bird at TRL5. This provides a clearer understanding of high voltage challenges and how to mitigate them, with a scalability roadmap towards CAJU Phase 2 flight demonstration and exploitation in a 2035 new built Hybrid Electric Regional aircraft. On the long term, the results will be beneficial to all HEP aircraft platforms. Also, environmental impact and LCA is assessed. For optimal alignment and ensuring certifiability, HECATE establishes relationships with other Clean Aviation projects (e.g HERA and HE-ART for the definition of the electrical architecture and power/voltage/current levels) and authorities and standards groups (e.g. EASA, EUROCAE). As a set of key enabling technologies that are well integrated, HECATE contributes to the Clean Aviation SRIA and its expected impacts, and fully fulfill the call's expected outcomes. The 37-member consortium mobilizes key EU based industries throughout the entire existing supply chain: from aircraft OEMs to system integrators, to system and subsystems suppliers, 5 of which are SMEs. 17 RTOs, complement and reinforce the industries, which also ensures knowledge gained is embedded in future research and education programs. Visit HECATE at www.hecate-project.eu, and follow Clean Aviation on LinkedIn at #CleanAviation. This project is co-funded by the European Union (Clean Aviation European Partnership) and supported by UKRI.