Large Scale Lightweight Liquid Hydrogen Integral Storage Solutions
Summary
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
Programme Name
Programme Description
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
Call
Detailed Call Description
Liquid hydrogen storage in aircraft implies challenges in several disciplines due to:
- exceptionally low energy content per unit of volume. As an example, an integral fuselage tank for equivalent energy could mean increasing fuselage length as much as 10 m for current single aisle aircraft, and over 20m for wide bodies.
- the need to adapt LH2 storage solutions for a/c environment
The following performance targets are provided:
- Gravimetric index of H2 selected storage solutions compared to current fuels (JET A-1, SAF; ultimate goal) and current ground/road transport H2 indexes (SoA); as a reference target is proposed 35% for a 150 kg LH2 tank.
- Tank LH2 storage capacity > 150 kg LH2, scalable to a target of 600kg LH2 capacity by 2025.
- Life Cycle Cost Analysis including KPIs targeting or dealing with:
- Production, installation and assembly costs
- Low maintenance impact: at all check types (A, B, C…)
- End of life: durability, recyclability/overhaul and overall waste generation (i.e. % recovered material in weight, exergy losses during recycling)
- Target between 50.000 and 100.000 hours of expected service life, aligned with a/c expected life
- Refueling conditions: making the refueling operations compatible with 45 min turnaround times.
- Boil-off < 2% in 24 hours (24 h defined as dormancy time reference)
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Given the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the involvement of Belarus, legal entities established in Russia, Belarus or in any occupied territory of Ukraine are not eligible to participate in any capacity.
Exceptions may be granted on a case-by-case basis for justified reasons, such as for humanitarian purposes, civil society support or people-to-people contacts.
Applicants should identify and include the additional expertise needed to complement the traditional aeronautical domain, in order to effectively address the incorporation of new/disruptive technologies. Where appropriate, the consortium should include newcomers to the field of aeronautics and in particular SMEs, start-ups and/or knowledge centres that can bring disruptive innovation to the project as proposed.
Programme Category
EU Competitive ProgrammesTotal Budget
€10 millionThematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)