Electrification of Aircraft – From more electric to all electric propulsion

There is an increasing trend towards more electrification and for deployment of electric/hybrid propulsion for aircraft. In addition, a number of industries have started to develop VTOL vehicles for short distance flights and has become an important and an emerging topic. This session will cover new developments and research on electric and hybrid propulsion, more electric aircraft, drones, electric taxi and VTOL vehicles. The benefits of electrification and the status of electrifications in the commercial aircraft including power system, main engine start (MES), and environmental control system (ECS) will be discussed. The power and Energy management system and propulsion strategies for solar airplane, flying cars, drones will also be presented. The enabling technologies such as high efficiency power electronics, high-speed electric machines, and energy storage technologies as applicable to these emerging aero systems will also be presented.

Session Chair:

Bulent Sarlioglu is Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Associate Director, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC). Dr. Sarlioglu spent more than ten years at Honeywell International Inc.’s aerospace division, most recently as a staff system engineer, earning Honeywell’s technical achievement award in 2003 and an outstanding engineer award in 2011. Dr. Sarlioglu contributed to multiple programs where high-speed electric machines and drives are used mainly for aerospace and ground vehicle applications. Dr. Sarlioglu is the inventor or co-inventor of 19 US patents and many other international patents. His research areas are motors and drives including high-speed electric machines, novel electric machines, and application of wide bandgap devices to power electronics to increase efficiency and power density. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2016 and the 4th Grand Nagamori Award from Nagamori Foundation, Japan in 2019. Dr. Sarlioglu became IEEE IAS Distinguished Lecturer in 2019. He is the technical program co-chair for ECCE 2019 and was the general chair for ITEC 2018.

Speakers:

Charles E. Lents, UTRC

Sean Clarke, NASA

Peter Savagian, Ampaire

Kamiar Karimi, Boeing