TY - JOUR

T1 - Power Distribution and Propulsion System for an All-Electric Short-Range Commuter Aircraft

T2 - A Case Study

AU - Ebersberger, Janine

AU - Fauth, Leon

AU - Keuter, Ralf

AU - Cao, Yongtao

AU - Freund, Yannik

AU - Hanke-Rauschenbach, Richard

AU - Ponick, Bernd

AU - Mertens, Axel

AU - Friebe, Jens

N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy-EXC 2163/1-Sustainable and Energy Efficient Aviation under Project 390881007, and by the Open Access Publication Funds of the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

PY - 2022/10/26

Y1 - 2022/10/26

N2 - To participate in the transition towards a sustainable use of energy, the aircraft sector needs to be transformed with respect to the energy carrier and propulsion methods. For smaller aircraft, a battery-electric approach is promising. While this will require extensive research and design as well as the application of advanced components which are partly not available to this date, general design rules and decisive parameters and components can already by deduced. This publication presents the exemplary design of the full propulsion system for a small commuter aircraft. This serves as a case study to highlight the influence of components and parameters on the overall efficiency and weight of the system. By that, future research can be directed towards the areas of high impact on the realization of all electric aircraft.

AB - To participate in the transition towards a sustainable use of energy, the aircraft sector needs to be transformed with respect to the energy carrier and propulsion methods. For smaller aircraft, a battery-electric approach is promising. While this will require extensive research and design as well as the application of advanced components which are partly not available to this date, general design rules and decisive parameters and components can already by deduced. This publication presents the exemplary design of the full propulsion system for a small commuter aircraft. This serves as a case study to highlight the influence of components and parameters on the overall efficiency and weight of the system. By that, future research can be directed towards the areas of high impact on the realization of all electric aircraft.

KW - AEA

KW - aerospace electronics

KW - aircraft propulsion

KW - Aviation

KW - DC/DC converters

KW - electric power supply systems

KW - high voltage direct current

KW - power semiconductor devices

KW - reliability

KW - safety

KW - wide bandgap semiconductors

KW - wiring harness

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141540797&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3217650

DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3217650

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85141540797

VL - 10

SP - 114514

EP - 114539

JO - IEEE ACCESS

JF - IEEE ACCESS

SN - 2169-3536

ER -