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Optimization Models and Steady-State Minimum-Fuel Operating Strategies for Hydrogen-based Hybrid Electric Aerospace Propulsion Systems
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A solar energy research paper on Optimization Models and Steady-State Minimum-Fuel Operating Strategies for Hydrogen-based Hybrid Electric Aerospace Propulsion Systems.
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Original abstract
This paper presents an optimization framework for the operation of hydrogen-based hybrid electric aerospace propulsion systems consisting of a hydrogen gas turbine and an electric motor powered by a solid oxide fuel cell, connected to the gas turbine via multiple gas channels and heat exchangers. Our framework computes the minimum-fuel optimal operating strategies over a flight mission accounting for the complex propulsion system with strong thermodynamic and mechanical coupling between components. First, we identify surrogate optimization models of the components employing high-fidelity model simulations. Second, we frame the minimum-fuel optimal control problem over a given flight mission and parse it into a static nonlinear optimization problem that can be efficiently solved with off-the-shelf nonlinear programming algorithms. Finally, we apply our optimization framework to a typical flight mission of an advanced, commuter aircraft (Beechcraft 1900D market segment), considering a parallel propulsion system architecture with four different configurations that share a common baseline but differ in the inclusion of an additional battery and by-pass valves around the two heat exchangers. The resulting optimal trajectories are validated against high-fidelity simulation results, demonstrating the accuracy of our framework. Results show that adding by-pass valves around the air and hydrogen heat exchangers can reduce fuel consumption by 19.11 % without the battery, and by 19.56% with the battery. We show that adding a battery yields a slight increase in fuel consumption (below 1%) for future projected energy densities under steady-state conditions. Conversely, when considering state-of-the art energy densities, the additional battery weight outweighs the benefits, limiting its potential applicability to only assisting transients, which are not considered in the present work.
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