Electric Power Systems and Components for All-Electric Aircraft (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2025) | Viewed by 3684
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Interests: transportation electrification; clean energy; electrical insulation materials and systems; high voltage/field engineering and technology; power systems; plasma science
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Dear Colleagues,
The transportation sector generates a remarkable share (the largest share (28%) in the U.S.) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To achieve net-zero emission, all-electric transportation has been targeted, making all-electric cars, trucks, trains, aircraft, and ships a likely realization. While electric vehicles are close to maturity, the aviation industry is in its infancy regarding electrification for commercial aircraft. Large aircraft, including narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, are responsible for more than 75% of aviation GHG emissions; this is likely to worsen with the historical 4–5% annual growth in air travel. There are two categories of aircraft electrification: more electric aircraft (MEA) and all-electric aircraft (AEA). An MEA simply replaces a subsystem, such as a hydraulically driven actuator, with an electric alternative. On the other hand, an AEA comprises electrically driven subsystems, as well as having thrust power fully provided by electrochemical energy units (EEUs). For wide-body AEAs, this difference is substantial, since the required thrust power is ~25 MW, and non-thrust demands add another 1 MW. This results in significant challenges for optimizing the electric power system (EPS) design for AEAs, where the maximum component power density must be achieved by minimizing both mass and volume. The topic of this Special Issue is electric power systems for AEAs, and it includes areas such as (1) the design and optimization of power systems for AEAs, (2) the design, construction, and testing of all components of electric power systems for AEAs, such as circuit breakers, power cables, motors, EEUs (battery, fuel cell, supercapacitors, etc.), converters, and storage resources. We are also interested in fundamental/basic research on the influence of low pressures at cruising height on different phenomena such as arc, arc tracking, and partial discharges.
Dr. Mona Ghassemi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- all-electric aircraft
- power systems
- circuit breakers
- power cables
- motors
- batteries
- fuel cells
- supercapacitors
- converters
- storage resources
- low pressures
- arc
- arc tracking
- partial discharges
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