Das Projekt "Clean Sky Green Rotorcraft (Clean Sky GRC)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH durchgeführt. Background: The use of helicopters has been concentrated until now on activities such as medical evacuation, rescue, civil protection, aerial work and law enforcement and such operations are expected to grow sharply in the near future. In addition, the rotorcraft traffic for passenger transport representing today only a marginal activity is expected to develop rapidly (2 to 3 fold increase in 2015-20 period). For example, helicopter shuttle operations from city heliports to airports, or even between cities without airports or connecting islands to mainland with limited ground infrastructure. In the meantime, thanks to their capability to operate independently from runways and higher speed compared to helicopters, tilt rotors are expected to play a key role as complement of turboprop airplanes feeding major airports with passengers starting from secondary ones. As a consequence of such traffic growth, the rotorcraft contribution to environmental impact, negligible today, would become more significant in next decade unless a major initiative succeeds in keeping it under control. The Green Rotorcraft ITD, a component of the Clean Sky initiative, together with other already launched technology programmes at European or national levels responds to the challenge of halving the specific impact of any rotorcraft operation on the environment. It should be noted that the results of some of those European programme launched in the 6th Framework Programme (FP6) will be raised to a higher maturity level within Clean Sky. Environmental Objectives: The Green RotorCraft ITD (GRC-ITD) gathers and structures all activities concerned specifically with the integration of technologies and demonstration on rotorcraft platforms (helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft) which can not be performed in platform-generic ITDs. In line with the ACARE environmental objectives for 2020 (SRA2 addendum 2008) and the general Clean Sky objectives, the GRC top-level objectives are to: - reduce CO2 emission by 25 to 40% per mission (for rotorcraft powered respectively by turboshaft or diesel engines); - reduce the noise perceived on ground by 10 EPNdB or halving the noise footprint area by 50%; - ensure full compliance with the REACH directive which protects human health and environment from harmful chemical substances. The status of the global helicopter fleet in the year 2000 constitutes the baseline against which achievements will be assessed. Progress toward these goals will result not only from GRC internal activities but also from the collaboration with the relevant cross-cutting activities in SAGE (turboshaft engine), SGO (electrical systems), and ED (ecodesign). Rough orders of magnitude of gains expected from individual components along with the rationale for their combination in overall environmental benefits are shown in the diagram. Beside the direct effects, particular attention is devoted to weight changes which impact dramatically both fuel consumption and noise emission.
Das Projekt "Clean Sky" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Fraunhofer-Institut für Elektronische Nanosysteme durchgeführt. Die Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) ist ein innovatives Europäisches Programm mit dem Ziel, den Einfluss des Luftverkehrs auf die Umwelt massiv zu senken. Als privat-öffentliche Partnerschaft arbeiten insgesamt 86 industrielle und Forschungspartner an ambitionierten Zielen wie - Verringerung des Treibstoffverbrauchs, - Reduktion der Emissionen, - Ökologisches Design, Produktion und Wartung sowie - Schnellere Überleitung innovativer Technologien in den Markt. 'Clean Sky' ist in sechs Integrated Technology Demonstrators (ITD): Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SFWA), Green regional aircraft (GRA), ECO Design ITD (ED), Systems for green operation (SGO), Sustainable and Green Engines (SAGE) und Green Rotorcraft (GRC) unterteilt. Einige technologische Aspekte aus den Arbeiten in Clean Sky finden ihre Parallelen auch im Automobilbau, so z. B. Leichtbau und Structural health monitoring (SHM) aktive Strömungsbeeinflussung Drahtlostechnologie Optimierte Integration innovativer Technologien. CleanSky soll den Einfluss des Luftverkehrs auf die Umwelt radikal verbessern und gleichzeitig die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Europäischen Luftfahrtindustrie stärken und sichern. Die ITDs demonstrieren und validieren die technologischen Durchbrüche, die notwendig sind, um die vom ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe) als die Europäische Technologieplattform für Aeronautics & Air Transport gesteckten Umweltziele zu erreichen. Zusammen mit Agusta Westland, Airbus, Alenia Aeronautica, Dassault Aviation, EADS-CASA, Eurocopter, Liebherr-Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, Saab AB, Safran und Thales ist die Fraunhofer Gesellschaft einer der Plattform-Leiter und Mitglied im 'Clean Sky' JTI Governing Board.
Das Projekt "Clean Sky Technology Eco Design (Clean Sky ECO)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH durchgeführt. The Eco-Design ITD (ED-ITD) gathers and structures from one side activities concerned specifically with development of new material and process technologies and demonstration on airframe and rotorcraft related parts stressing the ecolonomic aspects of such new technologies; from the other side, activities related to the All Electrical Aircraft concept related to small aircraft. ED-ITD is directly focused on the last ACARE goal: 'To make substantial progress in reducing the environmental impact of the manufacture, maintenance and disposal of aircraft and related products'. Reduction of environmental impacts during out of operation phases of the aircraft lifecycle can be estimated to around 20 % reduction of the total amount of the CO2 emitted by all the processes (direct emissions and indirect emissions i.e. produced when producing the energy) and 15 % of the total amount of the energy used by all the processes. In addition, expected benefit brought by the All Electric Aircraft concept to be highlighted through the conceptual aircraft defined in the vehicle ITDs is estimated to around 2% fuel consumption reduction due to mass benefits and better energy management. The status of the global fleet in the year 2000 constitutes the baseline against which achievements will be assessed. Progress toward these goals will result not only from ED internal activities but also from the collaboration with the relevant cross-cutting activities in GRA , GRC, SFWA (business jet platform) and SGO (electrical systems).
Das Projekt "Novel innovative competitive effective tilt rotor integrated project (NICE-TRIP)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von VERTAIR durchgeführt. Objective: This proposal has been prepared in the framework of a research and development roadmap defined by the European rotorcraft community that aims to develop a civil tilt-rotor aircraft. A key target of the road map is a flying demonstrator in the 2010 decade. NICETRIP specifically addresses the acquisition of new knowledge and technology validation concerning tilt-rotor. The main project objectives are: - To validate the European civil tilt-rotor concept based on the ERICA architecture; - To validate critical technologies and systems through the development, integration and testing of components of a tilt-rotor aircraft on full-scale dedicated rigs; - To acquire new knowledge on tilt-rotor through the development and testing of several wind tunnel models, including a large-scale full-span powered model; - To investigate and evaluate the introduction of tilt-rotors in the European Air Traffic Management System; - To assess the sustainability of the tilt-rotor product with respect to social and environmental issue s and to define the path towards a future tilt-rotor flying demonstrator. Project NICETRIP is fully relevant to the strategic objective 1.3.2.1: - Integration of technologies towards the future tilt-rotor aircraft, of the work programme of call 3 of the Thematic Priority Aeronautics and Space. The organisation and resources proposed to achieve the project objectives include a 54-month work plan made of 7 work packages and a consortium of 31 participants, fully representing the span of needed capabilities.
Das Projekt "Technologien für einen passagier- und umweltfreundlichen Hubschrauber - FRIENDCOPTER" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von VERTAIR durchgeführt. Ziele: Reduktion von Hubschrauberaußen- und -innenlärm, Erweiterung des Flugbereichs, Minderung des Kraftstoffverbrauchs. Nachweis durch analytische Simulation und Experimente (Flugversuch und Windkanalmodell).