Programs

Turbomeca is involved in various European or international cooperative programs. Here are just a few examples :

Clean Sky: On the way to Eco-Friendly Air Transport Turbomeca is part of the Clean Sky program, a Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) officially launched by the European Commission in February 2008. This major research program seeks to pinpoint and develop breakthrough technology to make air transportation more environmentally-friendly. Six Clean Sky research areas have been defined.

And each attributed an Integrated Technology Demonstrator; one such demonstrator is dedicated to green rotorcraft. Research projects include the installation of new blades to reduce drag; innovative, quieter engines that consume less fuel, and a more eco-friendly choice of flight paths.

This new initiative is co-financed equally by the European Commission and industry in a public-private partnership with a budget of 1.6 billion euros for the period 2008-2013.

The program will see industrial manufacturers such as Turbomeca working alongside research centers and universities.

As well as incorporating the ACARE targets for reduction of emissions, the Clean Sky initiative also introduces the concept of an ecological life cycle for products at each stage of design, manufacturing and in-service use, including maintenance and servicing, through to recycling and disposal.

Atmospheric emissions reduction

Low Nox III : European research program to reduce Nitrogen oxide emissions and exhaust fumes.

CFD4C : European research program to develop models adapted to the predicted combustion characteristics in combustion chambers, and, specifically, to the formation of gas pollutants and soot.

MOLECULES : European research program to develop instruments to predict unsteady reactionary flows (LES, see the CERFACS website), by developing a validation database.

MUSCLES : European research program for modelling unsteady combustion in air flow + droplets of fuel.

PRECCINSTA and ICLEAC : European research programs on the instabilities of combustion, for industrial and aeronautical turbines respectively.

INTELLECT D.M. : European research program to optimize low emission combustion chambers for every field of operation for aeronautical turbines.

AFTUR : European research program to study the feasibility of a combustion chamber capable of running on bio-gas, aiming to demonstrate this on an engine.

Favored combustion R&D partners :

• ONERA (Paris, Toulouse) ;

• CERFACS (Toulouse) ;

• CORIA (CNRS / INSA Rouen) ;

• EM2C (CNRS / Centrale Paris) ;

• LCD (CNRS / ENSMA Poitiers) ;

• DLR (Germany) ;

Experimental and numerical investigation of self-excited combustion oscillation in a scaled gas turbine combustor : more+

Noise pollution reduction

• EGC, domestic program and TurboNoiseCFD, a European program to better understand aeroacoustic phenomena in our turbine engines.

• AROMA, European project. A complete engine/helicopter review.

• SILENCER, one of the SAFRAN Group’s most prestigious research projects to develop materials that reduce engine noise.