Aqueous, Quick-Charging Battery Integration for Electric Flight Research (AQUIFER)
These posters describe the current state and related timelines for the Nano-electric technology programs.
Papathakis, Kurt↗
Engineering topics
Papathakis, Kurt
Publications and source records attributed to Papathakis, Kurt.
Aqueous, QUick-Charging Battery Integration For Electric Flight Research
AQUIFER establishes technical feasibility of an early-stage technology, a high-energy density, aqueous-based, flow battery, resulting in a near-term increase of 1.7 times range over an all-electric battery, while retiring fire and explosion hazards associated with lithium-based chemistries. The Nano-electrofuel (NEF) flow battery will be integrated with a rim-driven motor (RDM) as a multi-functional design to eliminate conductive EMI and weight from long cable runs, and provide liquid cooling from the aqueous fuel. When successful, the technology provides an improved safety energy storage solution for emission-free electric propulsion in commercial aviation.
power systems↗
Integration Concept for a Hybrid-Electric Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Power System into the X-57 "Maxwell"
Because of the growing Urban Air Mobility focus, this presentation provides an attractive alternative to the all-electric X-57 option.
electric propulsion↗
X-57 Power and Command System Design
Update on the current state of electric propulsion research at NASA.
test facilities↗
X-57 Power and Command System Design
This paper describes the power and command system architecture of the X-57 Maxwell flight demonstrator aircraft. The X-57 is an experimental aircraft designed to demonstrate radically improved aircraft efficiency with a 3.5 times aero-propulsive efficiency gain at a "high-speed cruise" flight condition for comparable general aviation aircraft. These gains are enabled by integrating the design of a new, optimized wing and a new electric propulsion system. As a result, the X-57 vehicle takes advantage of the new capabilities afforded by electric motors as primary propulsors. Integrating new technologies into critical systems in experimental aircraft poses unique challenges that require careful design considerations across the entire vehicle system, such as qualification of new propulsors (motors, in the case of the X-57 aircraft), compatibility of existing systems with a new electric power distribution bus, and instrumentation and monitoring of newly qualified propulsion system devices.
electric propulsion↗