• Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics

    To address revolutionary environmental and industrial challenges
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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

Delphine Laboureur

Associate Professor

Miguel Mendez

Associate Professor

Christophe Schram

Professor

Jeroen van Beeck

Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department and Professor

Koen Hillewaert

Adjunct Professor from University of Liège

Manolis Gavaises

Visiting professor from University of London

 
Roi Gurka

Visiting professor from Coastal Carolina University

 
 
  • Muhsin Can AKKURT
  • Thomas ARNOULT
  • Baris KALE
  • Jean MULLER
  • Sara PORCHETTA *
  • Orkun TEMEL *

*Collaborative Post Doc

  • Wassim (*) ABDEL NOUR
  • Pierette (*) ATIKPO
  • Matija (*)  AVIROVIC
  • David BARREIRO
  • Bart BROUWERS
  • Tommaso CARLESI
  • Adriana ENACHE
  • Benoît FOLOPPE
  • Erica GALLO
  • Emmanuel GILLYNS
  • Gert-Jan GLABEKE
  • Yohanna HENROTEL
  • Tsvetelina IVANOVA
  • Tom LAURIKS
  • Aude LECARDONNEL
  • Rebeca MARINI
  • Diana MARTINS
  • Pedro MARQUES
  • Alexandros PALATOS-PLEXIDAS
  • Fabio PINO
  • Romain POLETTI
  • Carlo SANAPO
  • Lorenzo SCHENA
  • Lorenzo VALLISA
  • Jan VAN DEN BERGHE
  • Adithya VEMURI

*Collaborative PhD

  • Ruben ANTONISSEN
  • Csaba BAGYINSZI
  • Diego BINDONI
  • Francesco FEDERICO
  • Peter HARTFORD
  • Csanád HUBAY
  • Semanur KUCUK
  • Konstantinos LAMPROU
  • Alessandro NOVI
  • Sebastiano RANDINO
  • Leni SCHMIDT
  • Bálint SOOS
  • Nicholas ZINGALE

Project Office - Research Managers

Jean-Baptiste Gouriet

Research Manager

Philippe Planquart

Research Manager

Aude Lahalle

Research Manager