Highlights

This is a selection of publications from the Structural Power Composites Group. For a full list of publications, please see below.

Highlights

Structural power phone

Massless energy

‘Massless’ energy for future electric vehicles using multifunctional structural power composites
Structural supercapacitor citation map

Structural supercapacitors review

A critical review of structural supercapacitors and outlook on future research challenges
Structural power plane

Structural power in electric aircraft

Structural Power Performance Targets for Future Electric Aircraft
Recent progress in free-standing supercapacitors

Free-standing supercapacitors

Challenges and opportunities in free-standing supercapacitors research
CNT-infiltrated CF

CF-CNT structural supercapacitors

Robust Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Infiltrated Carbon Fiber Electrodes for Structural Supercapacitors

Model Car

Multifunctional performance

Mechanical, electrochemical and multifunctional performance of a CFRP/carbon aerogel structural supercapacitor
Student operates flight simulator in the Department of Aeronautics

Structural power in aircraft cabins

Conceptual Multifunctional Design, Feasibility and Requirements for Structural Power in Aircraft Cabins

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Nguyen:2020,
author = {Nguyen, S and Millereux, A and Pouyat, A and Greenhalgh, E and Shaffer, M and Kucernak, A and Linde, P},
pages = {1--12},
publisher = {Engineers Australia},
title = {Structural power performance requirements for future aircraft integration},
url = {http://www.iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM22proceedings/papers/ICCM22_Full_Paper_23.pdf},
year = {2020}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This paper investigates the use of structural power composites in Airbus A220-100 aircraft cabins by integrating floor panels with face sheets made of structural power composites to power the in-flight entertainment system. This application requires a minimum specific energy of 305 Wh/kg and a minimum specific power of 0.610 kW/kg. The static and dynamic loads for which the floor panels must be certified require an in-plane Young’s modulus of 50 GPa, a compressive strength of 225 MPa and a tensile strength of 119 MPa. Structural power composite floor panels are predicted to yield mass savings of 324 kg, annual cost savings of £85,000 per aircraft and annual reductions in CO2 and NOx emissions of 343 tonnes and 1.4 tonnes respectively. However, addressing challenges such as fire-resistance, long term cycling performance and public perception of structural power composites are necessary to enable widespread use of such materials on-board airliners.
AU  - Nguyen,S
AU  - Millereux,A
AU  - Pouyat,A
AU  - Greenhalgh,E
AU  - Shaffer,M
AU  - Kucernak,A
AU  - Linde,P
EP  - 12
PB  - Engineers Australia
PY  - 2020///
SP  - 1
TI  - Structural power performance requirements for future aircraft integration
UR  - http://www.iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM22proceedings/papers/ICCM22_Full_Paper_23.pdf
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/80313
ER  -
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Contact

Professor Emile S Greenhalgh
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ

+44 (0)7958 210 089
e.greenhalgh@imperial.ac.uk