Giovanni Jacazio
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrea Mornacchi
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Pierantonio Ronco
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Massimo Sorli
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp1392a21Published in: 13th Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power; June 3-5; 2013; Linköping; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 92:21, p. 209-223
Published: 2013-09-09
ISBN: 978-91-7519-572-8
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The paper presents an innovative hydraulic power generation system able to enhance performance; reliability and survivability of hydraulic systems used in military jet engines; as well as to allow a valuable power saving. This is obtained by a hydraulic power generation system architecture that uses variable pressure; smart control; emergency power source and suitable health management procedures. A key issue is to obtain all these functions while reducing to a minimum the number of additional components with respect to the conventional hydraulic power generation systems. The paper firstly presents the state-of-art of these systems and their critical issues; outlines the alternative solutions; and then describes architecture; characteristics and performance of the hydraulic power generation system that was eventually defined as a result of a research activity aimed at moving beyond the present state-of-art in this field
Hydraulic power generation; adaptive pressure; energy saving; jet engines; health management
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