التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
An Engine Deterioration Model for Predicting Fuel Consumption Impact in a Regional Aircraft. |
| المؤلفون: |
Gurrola Arrieta, Manuel de Jesús, Botez, Ruxandra M., Lasne, Axel |
| المصدر: |
Aerospace (MDPI Publishing); Jun2024, Vol. 11 Issue 6, p426, 23p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ENERGY consumption, MODEL airplanes, FLIGHT simulators, AIRCRAFT fuels, ENGINES, AIRPLANE motors, AVIONICS |
| مستخلص: |
A deterioration cycle model is presented, designed to consider the turbomachinery efficiency losses that are expected during real engine in-service operations. The cycle model was developed using information from practical experience found in the literature to account for both short- and long-term deterioration effects; the former occurring during the first flight cycles, the latter due to regular in-service operation. This paper highlights the importance of analyzing the inter-turbine temperature margin ( I T T M ) to track engine deterioration to determine the extent of an in-service engine life. The proposed model was used to assess the I T T M and fuel consumption impact in the CRJ-700 regional aircraft (powered by two CF34-8C5B1 engines) for three representative missions: short (0.4 h), average (1.4 h), and long (2.5 h), considering different levels of engine deterioration, from the new engine level up to fully deteriorated. The fuel consumption at the new engine level (zero deterioration) was validated against a real-time engine model embedded in a Level-D flight simulator, the so-called Virtual Research Flight Simulator located at the Laboratory of Applied Research in Active Control, Avionics, and AeroServoElasticity. The errors found in this validation for the trip mission fuel consumption in the short, average, and long missions were −3.6, +0.9, and +0.6%, respectively. The cycle model predictions suggest the I T T M for a new engine is 55.2 °C, whereas for a fully deteriorated engine, it is 26.4 °C. Finally, in terms of fuel consumption, the results presented here show that an average CF34-8C5B1 engine shows an increase in the cumulative fuel consumption of 2.25% during its life in service, which translates to a 4.5% impact in aircraft fuel consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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