Silesian University of Technology in the research project on ecological engines
The Silesian University of Technology is part of an international consortium that received project funding from the National Centre for Research and Development to conduct research on increasing the efficiency of aircraft engine turbines for climate neutrality.
How to increase the efficiency of aircraft engines while reducing greenhouse gas emissions? This question will be answered by the implementers of the international project, which also included scientists from the Silesian University of Technology.
The M-ERA.NET 3 project, financed in Poland by the National Centre for Research and Development entitled "Shell Thermal Barriers for Green Heat-to-Energy Applications: Understanding Limitations in Hydrogen Burning Conditions and a Sustainable Development Perspective" will be devoted to Shell Heat Barriers for Green Heat-to-Energy Applications, which will help understand the limits in hydrogen burning conditions and get to know the perspective of sustainable development.
The international consortium of the project consists of five units - 3 from Poland (Łukasiewicz-GIT, Silesian University of Technology and AvioAero) and 2 foreign partners - MINES Paris from France and Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS from Germany. The project coordinator is dr Eng. Radosław Swadźba from the Materials Research Centre in Łukasiewicz - GIT, while at the Silesian University of Technology the project is led by dr hab. Eng. Bogusław Mendala, prof. SUT of the Faculty of Materials Engineering, Department of Materials Technology.
The aim of the project is to gain new knowledge on the high-temperature degradation of sheath thermal barriers, produced on monocrystalline, heat-resistant nickel-based superalloys, working in turbines of modern aircraft engines. Their use will allow to increase the operating temperature and thus the efficiency of aircraft engine turbines, and thus reduce fuel consumption by new generation aircraft and directly contribute to reducing CO2 emissions to the environment. This, in turn, will meet the global needs for building climate neutrality.
- Assuming that the use of hydrogen as a fuel in the future will increase the water vapor content in the exhaust gas, we, as scientists, also want to determine the effect of water vapor in the atmosphere on the durability of advanced coating thermal barriers during high-temperature oxidation tests - explains dr hab. Eng. Bogusław Mendala, prof. SUT and adds that all ambitious goals set within the project can be achieved only through close cooperation between Polish, French and German partners.
All work will be carried out simultaneously in Polish, French and German laboratories.
