GKN Aerospace Delivers First High-Voltage Battery System for Clean Aviation Project
UK-based GKN Aerospace has successfully completed and delivered the first high-voltage electrical wiring system (EWIS) for the Clean Aviation SWITCH project. This system, designed, assembled, and tested at GKN Aerospace’s facility in Papendrecht, Netherlands, is designed to power hybrid-electric aircraft with megawatt-class engines.
Additional units will be shipped to Collins Aerospace’s advanced electric power systems lab, The Grid, in Rockford, Illinois, in July. These units will undergo system integration testing later this year. The system will then be used to test a hybrid-electric Pratt & Whitney GTF engine demonstrator at EME Aero in Poland.
The SWITCH Project
The SWITCH project is an international partnership focused on developing new aircraft engines that improve efficiency and performance for short- and medium-range aircraft. It’s led by a group of companies including MTU Aero Engines AG, Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace, Airbus, and GKN Aerospace. The project is funded by the European Union through the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking.
“Delivering GKN’s high-voltage electric wiring system to RTX is a crucial step in proving that hybrid-electric propulsion technology can work effectively in future aircraft,” said Kristin Smith, Vice President of Electric Power Systems at Collins Aerospace. “As part of the SWITCH project, Collins’s power system will begin testing at The Grid lab later this year before we assemble and test two Collins megawatt-class power motor generators in a full-scale Pratt & Whitney GTF demonstrator engine.”
Source: GKN Aerospace
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