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H2020 NATHENA - New Additive manufacTuring Heat ExchaNger for Aeronautic

New Additive manufacTuring Heat ExchaNger for Aeronautic

 

Today’s technologies and processes dedicated to the exchangers manufacturing hamper progress on higher performances (mechanical assies of repetitive and regular unitary components like folded sheet metal and/or tubing mostly welded). Traditional manufacturing entails limit for the customization of the inner structure, which have a direct impact on the thermal behavior of the exchanger core. Design and manufacture a complex core structure accordingly and well adapted to the inner thermal phenomenon seems to be a promising way to increase performances.

Objectives

NATHENA project aims to develop a new kind of heat exchanger for civil aircraft using additive manufacturing. With a strong partnership including the von Karman Insitute for experimental characterization, AddUp Solutions for the development of the additive process, Sogeclair Aerospace for the mechanical conception and Temisth for the heat exchanger design, we ambition to create two optmized heat exchanger by increasing their compactness, their performances and robustness. Additive manufacturing give us the possibility to reduce the number of part to be welded or brazed and give a special global shape of the component to fit to the aircraft as well as possible. Liebherr Aerospace, topic manager of this project, support us for the conception.

This project founded by European Union (Clean Sky 2) at the level of 1.5M€ will last 4 years. It will lead to a proof of concept of a scale 1 heat exchanger tested with laboratory conditions. 

 

Project Stats

 

Date: 1 March 2018 - 28 February 2022

Overall budget: € 1 499 177,50

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under Grant Agreement no. 785520

 

 

Partners

SOGECLAIR Aerospace

ADDUP

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

Temisth

Faculty - EA

Jeroen van Beeck

Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department and Professor

Delphine Laboureur

Associate Professor

Miguel Mendez

Associate Professor

Wim Munters

Assistant Professor

Christophe Schram

Professor

Stefano Discetti

Visiting professor from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 
Manolis Gavaises

Visiting professor from University of London

 
Riccardo Zamponi

Adjunct professor from TU Delft

 
KALE Baris (*)
SENEL Cem Berk (*)
TEMEL Orkun (*)

*Collaborative Post Doc

AHIZI Samuel
ATIKPO Pierette (*)
AVIROVIC Matija (*)
CARLESI Tommaso
DI DOMENICO Valerio
DIERICKX Anouk
ENACHE Adriana
FOLOPPE Benoît (ARE)
GALLO Erica (*)
GILLYNS Emmanuel (*)
GLABEKE Gert-Jan
GONÇALVES Rui Pedro
IVANOVA Tsvetelina
LAURIKS Tom (*)
MANCINI Francesco
MARQUES Pedro
MONTEIRO Francisco
PALATOS-PLEXIDAS Alexandros
POLETTI Romain
RANDINO Sebastiano
RATZ Manuel
RICO ORERO Joan (*)
RIGUTTO Damien
SANAPO Carlo
SCHENA Lorenzo
SOOS Balint
VALLISA Lorenzo
VAN DEN BERGHE Jan
VEMURI Adithya
ZINGALE Nicholas Benedetto
ZUCCHELLI Umberto (*)

*Collaborative PhD

CAKTU ÖZEN Yasemin
DARTEVELLE Joran
DE MARIA Tommaso
DE SIO Giacomo
JACQUET Charles
LECOMTE Yannick
MAJOR Bertalan
STANDAERT Matias
YILMAZ Oguzhan