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Batteries for Aerospace: A Brief Review

2018

This paper presents a brief overview on batteries for aerospace application. In particular, More Electric Aircraft (MEA) and All Electric Aircraft (AEA) concepts are introduced at first, together with their main advantages and drawbacks. Subsequently, opportunities and issues related to the employment of batteries on aircrafts are presented and briefly discussed. Reference is then made to aircraft power system architectures and battery technologies, as well as on the state-of-the-art of battery management systems, state-of-charge and state-of-health estimations, and thermal management.

Battery (electricity)All electric aircraftEngineeringControl and Optimization020209 energyEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS02 engineering and technologyThermal management of electronic devices and systemsSettore ING-IND/32 - Convertitori Macchine E Azionamenti ElettriciAutomotive engineeringBatterieBattery management systemsElectric power systemHardware_GENERALAdaptive system0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringState-of-charge estimationState-of-health estimationAerospaceAerospaceBattery management systembusiness.industry021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyMore electric aircraftComputer Networks and CommunicationAerospace electronicsElectric aircraft0210 nano-technologybusiness
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Comparison between 3-ph and 6-ph PMSM drives for the electric propulsion of unmanned aerial vehicles

2021

The full electric aircraft concept requires accurate design and suitable choice and integration of all the used components. Obviously, the electric propulsion drive is one of the most important on-board equipment. Both power converters and electric motors must have low weight, suitable overload capacity and high reliability. In this paper, two possible solutions of electric propulsion motor for unmanned aerial vehicle are investigated. Sizes, weight and some features of a three-phase PMSM motor are compared to those of a six-phase motor obtained by an appropriate rewinding of the armature, with fixed stator and rotor magnetic circuits. The losses obtained from the numerical analyzes are com…

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A Hybrid Energy Storage Sizing for a Vertical Take-off and Landing Electric Aircraft

2021

The energy storage sizing procedure for an all-electric aircraft, characterised by vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), is presented in the paper. In order to define the energy consumption, the propulsion system model has been developed and simulated, referring to a specific configuration of VOLT obtained by the transformation of a very light twin-propeller aircraft named Tecnam P2012 T. Specifically, a flight mission-oriented to air city taxing has been considered. The simulation results highlight the presence of significant peak power during take-off and landing. At the aim of optimising the weight and the volume of the energy storage systems (ESSs), considered a critical issue in all-el…

SupercapacitorBattery (electricity)Computer scienceEnergy consumptionElectronicsPropulsionSettore ING-IND/32 - Convertitori Macchine E Azionamenti Elettriciall-electric aircraft Battery hybrid storage system SupercapacitorsSizingAutomotive engineeringEnergy storagePower (physics)
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A Hybrid Storage Systems for All Electric Aircraft

2021

A hybrid energy storage system specifically designed for a fully electric aircraft is presented in the paper. The analysis of the time evolution of the power demand of the electric propulsion system during a test mission of Maxwell X-57, an all-electric aircraft developed by NASA, has pointed out the presence of significant peak power during take-off and air tack. Considered the issues related to weight and the volume of the energy storage systems (ESSs) in all-electric aircraft, a hybridization of aircraft ESS with a Supercapacitors (SCs) bank, devoted to smooth peak power demand, has been investigated. A comparison between the simulation results of an electrochemical battery and hybrid ES…

SupercapacitorBattery (electricity)business.industryComputer scienceBatteryComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMSSettore ING-IND/32 - Convertitori Macchine E Azionamenti ElettriciHybrid storage systemEnergy storageAutomotive engineeringPower (physics)Electrically powered spacecraft propulsionPower electronicsComputer data storageSupercapacitorsPower engineeringbusinessAll-electric aircraft2021 IEEE 15th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG)
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