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Electric Aircraft: Storage Systems, Power Electronics, and Control
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Electric Aircraft: Storage Systems, Power Electronics, and Control

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 6551

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Navid Bayati

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Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark
Interests: power system; dc microgrids; protection; fault detection; microgrid clusters
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Dr. Robert Camilleri

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Institute of Aerospace Technologies, University of Malta, Malta
Interests: aircraft performance; gas turbine technology; more-electric aircraft; heat exchanger technology; electrical machine design; thermal management of electrical machines, electronics, and battery technology
Dr. Hamid Reza Baghaee

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
Interests: micro and smart grids; application of power electronic in power systems; distributed generation and renewable energies; cyber physical systems; application of artificial intelligence in power systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With regard to electric aircraft, the aim is to increase the penetration of electric power systems on traditional aircraft. In this framework, different topologies have been suggested in recent years. Moreover, due to the high importance of storage within these systems, it is important to study the performance of different storage systems used in these systems. Furthermore, the complexity of controlling converters and power electronic devices in aircraft emphasizes the need for proposing new control schemes for electric aircraft.

Therefore, in recent years, new electric aircraft have been developed to provide cheaper and more reliable electric systems. In addition, due to the developments of power electronic converters, there has been increasing use of the DC power system in electric aircraft, which has resulted in the design of hybrid AC–DC power systems. This new system has led to wide attention to research in this area.

To provide a thematic focus between the different application areas, this Special Issue aims to collect original research on innovative methods to address system engineering problems such as electric aircraft topologies, power electronic converters, optimizing the weight of electric aircrafts, the control of converters in electric aircrafts, protection methods in electric aircrafts, and the application of supercapacitors, flywheels, and batteries on electric aircrafts.

Dr. Navid Bayati
Dr. Robert Camilleri
Dr. Hamid Baghaee
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • electric aircraft
  • control
  • power electronics
  • storage systems
  • AC–DC converters
  • DC–DC converters

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Multi-Objective Comparative Analysis of Active Modular Rectifier Architectures for a More Electric Aircraft
by Unai Atutxa, Igor Baraia-Etxaburu, Víctor Manuel López, Fernando González-Hernando and Alejandro Rujas
Aerospace 2022, 9(2), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9020098 - 12 Feb 2022
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Aircraft electrification requires reliable, power-dense, high-efficient, and bidirectional rectifiers to improve the overall performance of existing aircrafts. Thus, traditional bulky passive rectifiers must be substituted by active rectifiers, satisfying the requirements imposed by up-to-date standards. However, several challenges are found in terms of [...] Read more.
Aircraft electrification requires reliable, power-dense, high-efficient, and bidirectional rectifiers to improve the overall performance of existing aircrafts. Thus, traditional bulky passive rectifiers must be substituted by active rectifiers, satisfying the requirements imposed by up-to-date standards. However, several challenges are found in terms of power controllability, due to the standardized passive rectifier-based operating conditions. This work presents the implementation of an active rectifier modular architecture for aircraft applications. An analysis of the technical difficulties and limitations was performed and three innovative modular architectures are proposed and designed. In order to find the most suitable architecture, a comparison framework is proposed, focusing on efficiency, volume, and reliability parameters. From the comparative analysis, it can be concluded that the two-stage configuration architecture is a good solution in terms of semiconductor life expectancy and low volume. However, if converter redundancies are required, the single-stage with STATCOM configuration is an excellent trade-off between low volume, redundancy, and cost-effectiveness. Full article
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Intelligent Fault-Tolerant Control for AC/DC Hybrid Power System of More Electric Aircraft
by Lingfei Xiao, Robert R. Sattarov, Peisong Liu and Cong Lin
Aerospace 2022, 9(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9010004 - 22 Dec 2021
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This paper presents a novel intelligent fault-tolerant control method for a kind of more electric aircraft AC/DC hybrid electrical power system, in order to ensure the safe operation of the engine and improve the power supply quality. The more electric aircraft electrical power [...] Read more.
This paper presents a novel intelligent fault-tolerant control method for a kind of more electric aircraft AC/DC hybrid electrical power system, in order to ensure the safe operation of the engine and improve the power supply quality. The more electric aircraft electrical power system was combined with an aircraft engine, two generators, two AC/DC rectifiers, two DC/AC inverters, DC loads, and AC loads. A multi-objective optimization intelligent sliding mode fault-tolerant controller was obtained for aircraft engine with actuator faults. Each of AC/DC rectifiers is 12-pulse autotransformer rectifier unit with active power filter. Active power filter was used to realize the desired performance of DC bus. Intelligent fractional order PI controller is presented for AC/DC rectifier by considering multiple performance indexes. In order to guarantee the AC-side has satisfying voltage, current, and frequency, no matter the sudden change of AC load that happens or DC/AC fault that occurs, the virtual synchronous generator control method was used for DC/AC inverters. Simulation results verify the effective of the proposed more electric aircraft AC/DC hybrid electrical power system. Full article
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