The Aerospace Europe Conference was a joint event between the 10th European Conference for Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS) and the 9th conference of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS). The objectives of the conference were to strengthen the link between space and aeronautics, facilitate cross-fertilisation and lay the foundations for a major unified international congress of aerospace sciences in Europe. With rich scientific content for the future of space and aeronautics, the Aerospace Europe Conference presented cutting-edge ideas for the world of tomorrow. The conference was organised at the Swiss Tech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, the conference will also be an opportunity to discover the city, the Olympic Capital of the world, as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ranked 16th in the QS World University Ranking.
Mr Andre Manicolo presented his paper titled Investigating the power and energy flows for a Kinetic Energy Recovery System from a landing aircraft. This paper investigates the power and energy flows for a kinetic energy recovery system from a landing aircraft. The concept studied here uses electrical motors installed at the wheels to produce regenerative braking during rollout. This energy is stored temporarily into a flywheel energy storage device and is then transferred back to the wheels for engineless taxiing. The paper develops an aircraft dynamics model to assess the bi-directional power and energy transfer. The model is tested with two case studies; the A320 and the ATR-72 aircraft, thus assessing a wide spectrum for short haul flights. Simulated results show that during normal operation, there is sufficient energy that can be harvested from a landing aircraft that may be used for taxiing purposes. However, the short rollout time places a stringent demand on the system which is limited by the safety aspect of performance limited runways or busy major airports requiring minimum runway occupancy time operation. The paper is a result of research project REACTIVE.
Project REACTIVE is funded by the Malta Council for Science & Technology, through the SINO-Malta Fund 2020 (Science and Technology Cooperation).
