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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
the freedom and flexibility of a start-up, ASCEND's engineers,
who divide their time between UpNext's Toulouse headquarters
and Ottobrunn, hand-built the test bench environments with their
German colleagues.
ponents are exposed to repeated extreme thermal shock tests
within these environments to determine the potential impact of
cryogenics on the performance of electrical propulsion systems.
Conventional electric powertrains require a high voltage to
limit power loss. On board an electric aircraft, a superconductive
powertrain could reduce voltage and practically eliminate
losses, while keeping the weight and size of the overall system
in check. The conditions for superconductivity would be created
by the same cryogenic process used to maintain liquid hydrogen
on board the aircraft at -253°C, where the hydrogen is used to
generate power through electrolysis inside a fuel cell.
The unassuming white boxes can be found in a small back room
inside that Toulouse warehouse. While they may look simple
from the outside, the boxes house complex systems. At about
1.5m tall and resembling an outsized domestic appliance, the
home-made devices are where the ASCEND team test how
superconducting materials perform when exposed to an aircraft's
thermal cycles. The electrical resistance of such materials
becomes zero when exposed to extremely low temperatures,
usually below -170°C.
That might seem very cold but liquid nitrogen, widely used in
industrial processes, is around -200°C. The powertrain comAfter
a halting start, the aerospace superconductivity ecosystem
is maturing. As the ASCEND chapter closes, another opens.
The race is on to mature and accelerate the technology in time
to meet Airbus' ambition of flying a hydrogen fuel-cell powered
aircraft by 2035.
For more info, see www.airbus.com.
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