Innovation takes off n° 28 November 2019 Powering Partnerships Towards Innovation Architecture www.cleansky.eu Delivering Contents Electrification Editorial 3 Through Delivering Electrification Through Partnership 4 Partnership A new dawn of aviation 5 Diverse talents on board for AeroSpline’s CORDIAL project 6 Zoom in Clean Sky 2 results: 7 iBearing maximises service life for starter-generator bearings Zoom in Clean Sky 2 results: 8 ALC – pilot communications at the speed of light Zoom in Clean Sky 2 results: 10 Aircraft noise: getting to the core of the issue with CORNET Clean Sky Academy PhD Award celebrates the next generation 12 of innovators! Clean Sky at Aerodays and Le Bourget 14 Mark your calendars 16 4 A new dawn iBearing maximises of aviation service life for starter- generator bearings 5 7 ALC – pilot Clean Sky Academy communications PhD Award celebrates at the speed of light the next generation of innovators! 8 12 2 Skyline 28 | November 2019 EDITORIAL Axel Krein Executive Director, Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking Combining resources and funding will Powering Partnerships Towards produce a substantial leverage effect and help reach the challenging objective of Innovation Architecture deep decarbonisation. The overall resource requirement to meet this challenge inside the Horizon Europe timeframe is likely to exceed a staggering y the time you read these lines, the was handed over to Jean-Eric Paquet, figure of €12 billion for European and Member BEuropean Union will have in place a new Director-General for Research and Innovation, States aeronautics research. This includes European Parliament and a newly-appointed European Commission. research, technology development and European Commission will soon take office. demonstrations only, as the implementation They have on their shoulders the formidable In that respect, the universities, research of the results will be yet again a multiple of this challenge of legislating to improve the life of organisations and industrial companies amount in terms of developing and certifying Europeans at a time of huge societal change, continue to work on the technical proposal for the new aircraft, engines and systems. economic uncertainty and rising awareness a new Clean Aviation Partnership programme, of the urgency of addressing climate change. which will aim to drive towards a deep We are not talking about a mere continuation decarbonisation of aviation, supporting the from Clean Sky 2 to a future Clean Aviation A key priority on their agenda to help fulfil that European Green Deal, leading to a carbon-free Partnership. This is a vital and necessary objective is impact-driven European research society by 2050, and taking European aviation transformation to successfully take on the and innovation. Building on the Horizon 2020 and aeronautics to the forefront globally in challenge ahead. research programme, Horizon Europe will this transition. provide an even greater opportunity to steer In parallel, Clean Sky 2 is still running with further excellence into European research, Initial analysis has identified a number of full steam ahead! In this Skyline issue you will making sure that more actors have a chance ambitious zero- and low-emission concepts. find examples of Clean Sky 2 projects such as to contribute and that outcomes are impactful, These include full electric and hybrid-electric CORNET, which aims to improve understanding meeting far-reaching objectives such as solutions applicable to regional and short- of engine noise in order to provide industry mitigating damage to the environment. range categories. Hydrogen or low-carbon fuel- with new computer-based methods to predict powered architectures using ultra-efficient gas noise in future engines; and ALC (Aircraft Light A major step towards a potential future Clean turbines and advanced aircraft configurations will Communication), which is exploring the use Aviation Partnership under Horizon Europe cover the medium and long-range segments. of LiFi (a high-speed wireless communications took place at the Paris Air Show - Le Bourget system using light) in the cockpit for safer, in June 2019. Led by Airbus CEO Guillaume As a consequence, substantial research activity more efficient data exchanges; and iBearing, an Faury, Safran CEO Philippe Petitcolin, Rolls- will need to be actively aligned with and advanced sensor-enabled monitoring system Royce CEO Warren East and Leonardo CEO connected to the future Partnership, ranging that gauges the health of critical bearings in Alessandro Profumo, twenty-three Aeronautics from Member States’ national innovation high-temperature environments, enabling Industry leaders, Research Organisations and funding initiatives in aeronautical fields to aero-engine starter generators to operate University Associations across Europe signed synergy areas within Horizon Europe, all safely at higher speeds and reduce fuel burn. a Joint Declaration to express their strong supported by commonly agreed goals You will also get an insight into what the next commitment to a future European partnership and objectives within an integrated and generation of engineers is working on from the that can lead the way towards a deep comprehensive roadmap. winners of our Clean Sky Academy PhD Award. decarbonisation of aviation by 2050. The Joint Declaration made it clear that the partnership It is now becoming increasingly clear that I thank Paul Stein of Rolls-Royce, Henri Werij should build on the progress made under a future Clean Aviation Partnership would of TU Delft, and Maxime Hardouin of the SME the Clean Sky programmes, and develop build an effective European ’innovation AeroSpline for the views on what the future further-reaching innovations and concrete architecture’ for aviation, ensuring shared Partnership could look like and what this roadmaps for their implementation in a new roadmaps and enabling synergies with other means for the industry’s big players, SMEs breed of aircraft from 2030 and beyond. To European Partnerships and EU research and universities. highlight that these ambitious aims can only programmes, national research and innovation be achieved through cooperation between programmes, and European structural Please stay updated on the Clean Sky website the public and private sectors, the Declaration investment funds and financial instruments. for results, news and key events. Skyline 28 | November 2019 3 DELIVERING ELECTRIFICATION THROUGH PARTNERSHIP Paul Stein Chief Technology Officer, Rolls-Royce plc ooking to the f uture we may expect by 2030 Electrification is one of the key enablers towards In parallel to Clean Sky 2, we are working in L8.6 billion people on Earth; 6 billion of those sustainability for many transportation systems partnership with other organisations and will be annual flyers and 5 billion will reside in because of its ability to power pure electric and agencies. In the UK we are working on ACCEL cities. In 2019 global annual emissions of CO2 hybrid machines with lower CO2 footprints. It is with the Aerospace Technology Institute to created by humans will reach 33 billion tonnes, possible that we will see a new type of regional solve challenges of energy storage capacity with aviation representing approximately 2%. air transport, being more fuel efficient and quieter and powertrain performance towards setting than current turboprops, which could bring a new new records for an electrically powered To support the rising demand for air travel and approach to mass mobility. For larger aircraft aircraft. In Germany, we look forward to new achieve CO2 emissions reduction targets, the electrification will enable simplification of gas opportunities to strengthen kilowatt-class hybrid aviation industry is developing environmentally turbine internal design, unlock new methods of electric power and propulsion research and friendly technologies and practices. Clean Sky 2 managing aircraft drag, and open new benefits development activities in Brandenburg. is the leading R&T programme bringing forward to an aircraft at platform level. solutions to these challenges and Rolls-Royce is Whilst challenges include the technology for proud to have been part of this community since In hybrid electric propulsion, we are leading the very high power to weight machines, power the start of Clean Sky in 2008. propulsion challenges in the E-Fan X project, electronics and batteries, thermal management, which when flying in 2021 will demonstrate hybrid and systems integration complexity we can see Rolls-Royce has an environmental strategy for electric propulsion at megawatt scale. Working a path towards solving these issues. This will aviation that has three strands: increasingly in partnership with Airbus we are integrating require government support in research and fuel-efficient products; encouraging the several key techno-bricks in power generation, technology, test infrastructure, and legislation. development of sustainable aviation fuels; and thermal management and electrically driven Academia, research organisations and industry pursuing breakthrough technologies especially thrust generation with one engine converted on will also have to join efforts to develop key electrification. On efficiency, our UltraFan® a four engine Bae 146. Clean Sky 2, via the Large knowledge, technology and effective supply demonstrator programme, supported by Passenger Aircraft Innovative Aircraft Demonstrator chains. And fundamental to all of this is the need Clean Sky 2 funding in the Engines Integrated Platform,