Study offers new clues to hydrogen combustion in aircraft
Flying accounts for around 2.5 % of global carbon dioxide emissions. Current combustion chambers are burning hydrocarbon fuels, such as kerosene and sustainable aviation fuel. To mitigate the carbon footprint of the aviation sector, engineers are turning their focus on hydrogen – a promising zero-carbon fuel or energy carrier. The EU-funded HESTIA project aims to study the physical phenomena related to hydrogen-air combustion of future hydrogen-powered aero engines. Experimental activities will be complemented by theoretical work focused on adapting or developing new models and will progressively increase their maturity so that they can be integrated into industrial computational fluid dynamics code.
