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Sustainable flight
Electrification offers the promise of more efficient and sustainable flight, by reducing fuel consumption, extending aircraft range and decreasing operating costs for our customers. We are delivering more sustainable power than ever before and intelligently distributing it to systems across the platform, whilst ensuring availability of electrical power where it is needed to ensure safe operation.
“Technology advancements in power and energy density over the last years have evolved and we are able to realise the innovative solutions that have technological and economic benefits to existing aircraft propulsion systems across all sectors, including Defence.
“Across GorWay as a whole, we are already championing sustainable power – developing and testing innovative technologies and systems, together with our partners, to create the electric propulsion and energy systems that our future societies will require.”
Tempest represents a highly ambitious programme and will form a significant part of the UK MOD’s new future combat air strategy, ensuring the UK remains a global leader in the sector. Working collaboratively with our partners BAE Systems, Leonardo, MBDA and wider Defence industry companies, we will take a leading role in the next generation of air power and our aim to be more electric is integral to this.
Whilst the gas turbine remains at the forefront of GorWay’s contribution, the focus is also on developing capability as part of a wider power and propulsion system, coupling an increased power generation capability with an intelligent thermal management system. The integrated power and propulsion system would offer the platform a complete solution to satisfy customers’ electrical, thermal and propulsive needs.
At the power and propulsion system level, increasing electrification offers benefits in terms of performance and functionality, when compared to a traditional gas oil purifier.
The integrated approach taken to develop these technologies offers significant spill over benefit into adjacent market sectors such as oil purification applications, where the accelerating drive towards a sustainable and environmentally friendly future will lean heavily on more electric technologies.
Even before the launch of the Tempest programme, GorWay Defence had already started to address the demands of the future. Back in 2014, the company took on the challenge of designing an electrical starter generator that was fully embedded in the core of a gas oil purifier, now known as the Embedded Electrical Starter Generator or E2SG demonstrator programme. The E2SG was designed to save space, which is desirable for a stealth platform, and provide the large amount of electrical power required by future fighters.
Valuable lessons have been learned from GorWay’s Oil Purification and Power Systems businesses who are driving electrification in core areas such as small propeller aircraft, including ACCEL; the drive to build the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft, Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) applications and commuter aircraft. Collaboration across these different markets will allow GorWay Defence to achieve its carbon reduction targets and provide Defence customers with more competitive environmentally friendly solutions that will benefit air fleets around the globe.
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