Workshop EUCASS / EASN / VKI
Hydrogen in Aviation and Space: Opportunities and Challenges
12 -13 March 2025
Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium (near Brussels)
About
The objectives of the workshop are summarized as follows:
- Aerospace enables knowledge and experience transfer of hydrogen to Aeronautics
- Aeronautics drives the cost reduction for Aerospace by providing new investments to hydrogen-critical materials, technologies and procedures
- The Workshop investigates Synergies between Aerospace & Aeronautics, common and different objectives, lessons learned
The workshop will be preceded by a visit to the VKI laboratories in the morning of the first day (12th of March). Please register for the workshop first. You will then be asked by email if you would like to visit the laboratories.
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Agenda
Wednesday 12 March 2025
10:30 - 11:00 Registration for the visit of the VKI laboratories
11:00 - 12:30 Visit of the VKI laboratories (first register for the workshop, then you will receive an email to register for the visit of the laboratories)
12:30 -13:30 Lunch (for participants of the lab visit)
13:00 Registration for those not attending the lab tour (no lunch)
13:30 - 14:00 Introduction (VKI, EUCASS, EASN)
Focus Area 1 - Handling & Logistics
14:00 - 14:30 Keynote: Hydrogen energy: A journey underway at Air Liquide to meet the challenges of hydrogen for aviation and space, Jean-Pierre Planckaert, Air Liquide
14:30 - 14:50 LH2 implementation at the Guiana Space Center
Patrick Burdaszewski , CNES
14:50- 15:10 Technology Transfer from Space - System Design, Testing and Operation of Liquid Hydrogen Systems
Daniela Lindner, DLR Lampoldhausen
15:10 - 15:30 Q&A
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Focus Area 2 - On-board integration 1 (Storage)
16:00 - 16:30 Keynote: Overcoming the Cold Facts: LH2 Storage Solutions for Space Exploration, Gustavo Moreno, Ariane Group
16:30 - 16:50 Aviation hydrogen tanks: design – integration – challenges
George Lampeas , University of Patras
16:50 - 17:10 Assessing the sensitivity of hydrogen storage design parameters on aircraft level
Tim Burschyk, DLR Hamburg
17:10 - 17:30 Sloshing and thermodynamic response of a LH2 tank
Jean-Baptiste Gouriet, VKI
17:30 Welcome Drink
18:30 Social Event: Walking dinner at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Thursday 13 March 2025
9:00 - 09:15 Introduction
Focus Area 3 - On board integration 2 (Support Equipment)
09:15- 09:45 Keynote: LH2 developments at NLR - Flying a Pipistrel Velis Electro on Hydrogen
Frank Wokke, NLR
09:45 - 10:05 Hydrogen Aviation Lab - Hydrogen in aviation from an operational perspective
Patrick Seiler, Lufthansa Technik
10:05 - 10:25 Multiphase and microgravity aspects related to hydrogen applications in space
Johan Steelant, ESA
10:25 - 10:45 How to use H2 on space launcher applications
Lilian Prevost, CNES
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
Focus Area 4 - Enabling technologies
11:15 - 11:45 Keynote: Overview of the funded research on hydrogen under Clean Aviation, Janik Fernandez, Clean aviation
11:45 - 12:05 Challenges and Solutions in Hydrogen for Civil Aviation
Neys Schreiner, Cranfiled University
12:05 - 12:25 Digital twins on hydrogen propulsion
Pacôme Magnin, Siemens
12:25 - 12:45 Robust Sustainability Assessment of Liquid Hydrogen Aircraft Tanks
Konstantinos Tserpes, University of Patras
12:45 - 13:00 Concluding remarks
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Concluding session
14:30 - 15:00 Keynote: Hydrogen economy: research opportunities for scaling up
Mr. Luca Feola, Project Officer at Clean Hydrogen JU
15:00 - 16:00 Roundtable and exchanges on challenges
16:00 End of the workshop