Prof Chris Bingham

FP7 Sustainable Surface Transport Agenda 19 July 2011

Paul Stewart
FIAT Electric Truck

FP7 Information Days for Transport (Incl. Aeronautics) 19 July 2011

Sustainable Surface Transport Draft Agenda Brussels (Charlemagne building, Rue de la Loi 170)

Morning: Plenary sessions (Plenary room GASP – second floor) Chairman: Liam Breslin, Head of Unit (RTD-H2)

Registration Welcome addresses

  • Welcome by Liam Breslin, Head of Surface Transport Unit, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (RTD-H2)
  • Welcome by Paul Verhoef, Head of Research and Innovative Transport Systems Unit,

Directorate-General Mobility and Transport (MOVE-C2)

Presentations of 5th calls for proposals for Sustainable Surface Transport and Cross-cutting Activities

  • “Overview of SST work programme and SST-RTD call”

Liam Breslin, Head of Unit (RTD-H2)

  • Topic Group No 1: “Increasing railway capacity”

Michal Klima (RTD-H2)

  • Topic Group No 2: “Ensuring safe, green and competitive waterborne transport” Dominique Ramaekers-Jorgensen (RTD-H2)
  • Topic Group No 3: “Implementing research for the ‘European Green Car Initiative” Maurizio Maggiore (RTD-H2)

European Green Car Initiative – Demonstration Activities

  • Hugues Van Honacker (MOVE-B4)

Coffee break

  • Topic Group No 4: “Activities and research areas of cross-cutting character (sustainable urban mobility, improving surface transport through ITS and safety and security)”

Patrick Mercier-Handisyde (RTD-H2)

  • “Transport horizontal call (TPT)”

Frank Smit (RTD-H1)

  • Overview of DG MOVE transport call

Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit (MOVE–C2)

  • “How to apply: call, rules, eligibility, e-submission, evaluation overview, typical mistakes” Joost de Bock (RTD-H2)

Questions and answers

  • Presentation of CORDIS service Magdolna Zsivnovszki, Simon Robinson
  • “National Contact Points and introduction of the brokerage activities”

David Doerr, ETNA coordinator, TÜV Rheinland PT

Lunch and networking Brokerage activities

14h00-18h00 Brokerage activities: further details on http://www.transport-ncps.net

FP7 Aeronautics and Air Transport Agenda 18 July 2011

Paul Stewart

 

Airbus A380

FP7 Information Days for Transport (Including Aeronautics) 18 July 2011

Aeronautics and Air Transport Draft Agenda

Brussels (Charlemagne building, Rue de la Loi 170)

Morning: Plenary sessions (Plenary room GASP – second floor) Chairman: Marco Brusati (RTD-H1)

08h00-09h00 Participants registration

Welcome addresses

09h00-09h15 “Research and Innovation for Next Generation Air Transport”

András Siegler, Director for Transport,

Directorate-General Research and Innovation

  • 09h15-09h30 “The Air Transport of Tomorrow”

Matthew Baldwin, Director for Aviation,

Directorate-General Mobility and Transport

Presentation of the Fifth Call for Proposals in Aeronautics and in cross-cutting activities

 

  • “AAT Research in the 7th Framework Programme”

Tiit Jurimae, Head of Unit (RTD-H3)

  • “Aeronautics and Air Transport – 5th call”

Remy Denos (RTD-H3)

  • “Lessons learnt from previous FP7 calls”

Dietrich Knoerzer (RTD-H3)

  • “Transport horizontal call (TPT)”

Frank Smit (RTD-H1)

 

Presentation of the other Aeronautics & Air Transport Activities linked to FP7

How to apply

  • “Opportunities for SMEs”

Michael Kyriakopoulos (RTD-H3)

  • “International Cooperation”

Pablo Perez-Illana (RTD-H3)

  • “How to apply: call, rules, eligibility, e-submission, evaluation overview and contracting” Hans Josef von den Driesch (RTD-H3)

Presentation of Cordis partners services

Magdolna Zsivnovszki & Simon Robinson (Cordis)

“The role of National Contact Points”

David Doerr, ETNA coordinator (TÜV Rheinland PT)

Questions and answers

13h00-14h30 Brokerage/workshops

Opening of the brokerage activities

Tiit Jurimae, Head of Unit (RTD-H3)

Level 2 presentations (4 x 15 min.) EASN presentation

Coffee break

Workshop

Questions and answers

EU FP7 Transport Meetings 2011: Brussels

Paul Stewart
7 Transport Information Days 2011 - 18-19 July 2011

Chris Bingham and Paul Stewart from the UoL School of Engineering will be heading to Brussels on Sunday for a Framework 7 briefing event.

The next round of calls for proposals under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) will be published at the end of July 2011.

In order to support the preparation of proposals, the European Commission’s Research Directorate General will hold two ‘Information Days’ on 18 and 19 July 2011 in the Charlemagne building, rue de la Loi 170, in Brussels.

The aim of the two-day event is to inform potential researchers about FP7 and the new Transport Calls for Proposals under the ‘Co-operation’ Programme. Details will also be given on the main legal and procedural conditions and we will respond to your questions. Participants will also have the chance to network with potential project partners by posting information on the main networking boards, and will also be given the opportunity to give a brief Powerpoint presentation at each full day event.

What’s Lincoln’s involvement in the EU FP7 MAAT Advanced Airship Programme?

Paul Stewart
The A380 features elements from the More Electric and Power Optimised Aircraft projects

Over the years, Profs Stewart and Bingham in the School of Engineering at the University of Lincoln have been involved in many projects related to the Power Optimised (POA) or More Electric (MEA) Aircraft, primarily in the areas of advanced electrical machines and actuators, power electronic energy converters, and electrical power system design and optimisation.

For example, the EU FP6 MOET (More Open Electrical Technologies) was a 66.61 million euro Integrated Project of 62 European Partners from 15 countries composed of universities, research centres a broad range of aircraft, system and component manufacturers representing the whole supply chain who are ready to set up the PbW (Power by Wire) standard.

In line with the vision 2020, MOET aimed to establish the new industrial standard for commercial aircraft electrical system design, which will directly contribute to strengthening the competitiveness of the aeronautical industry. MOET will also contribute reducing aircraft emissions and improving operational aircraft capacity. Recent National and European research activities and state of the art commercial aircraft developments, have launched more advanced approaches for on-board energy power management systems. These benefits have also been recognised in North America where this is being given special consideration. A step change is necessary to remove current air and hydraulic engine off-takes and further increase the electrical power generation capability.

This in itself will require significant changes to current electrical generation and network techniques. After Fly by wire, the Power by Wire concept (PbW) will enhance aircraft design and use by power source rationalisation and electrical power flexibility. This will be achieved by developing the necessary design principles, technologies and standards.

Over a 3-year period, MOET project objectives were:

– Validate scalable electrical networks up to 1MW considering new voltages and advanced concepts including system transformation of future air, actuation and electrical systems into all electrical solutions,
– Assess the PbW concept integration at aircraft level considering a more composite environment and the interfaces with the avionics world,
– Build a design environment aiming to design and validate standardised solutions and a coherent set of platforms open to the full supply chain, in order to develop an optimised high performance PbW concept.

Lincoln:Engineering and the FP7 MAAT Advanced Airship

In addition to involvement in other work packages, from September 2011, Lincoln:Engineering will be leading the ‘Energy and Propulsive Systems’ work package.

This Work Package is related to the fundamental energy production and propulsion system. It will analyze and define the optimal propulsion both for cruiser and feeder airships focusing on innovative systems which can overcome the traditional limitations of traditional propellers at high altitudes. The purpose of the WP3 Energy and Propulsive Systems is to produce:

  • parametric dimensioning methods for of the cruiser and feeder PV (photovoltaic) roofs
  • design of a thermo-physical system which control the volume and the temperature of the gas ballonets even in presence of ample thermal gradients
  • design of internal energy transport and distribution systems
  • design of energy storage system (electrolytic hydrogen and oxygen) and conversion by fuel cells
  • optimal propulsive systems design of cruiser and feeder, both for their common operative autonomous missions and for their integration inside the MAAT modular cruiser system.

Partners on the EU FP7 Advanced Airship project: University of Lincoln

Paul Stewart

Organization: University of Lincoln UK Short name: UoL

General Description

University of Lincoln UK is a school of engineering, centre of excellence in Industrial power and energy, control and electronic/electrical engineering, engaging in world-class fundamental and applied research, collaborating with industrial partners ranging from SMEs to Multinationals.

Main related expertise

Paul Stewart, Professor of Control Engineering, Head of Engineering, Director EPSRC Network in Airport En- ergy Technologies. Stewart has competences about Electromechanical Energy Conversion: Electrical Machine Design: Permanent Magnet Brushless AC/DC motors and generators; Power optimized designs; Switched reluc- tance motors and generators; Semiconductor power electronic drives design: DC-3/phase AC conversion, active rectifiers, active filters, generator and motor controllers. DC-DC electrical converters, modelling, optimization and control; Hydrogen fuel cell system modelling and control; Energy storage systems simulation, analysis and control: batteries, flywheels, super/ultra capacitors; Electrical power systems architectures: simulation, analysis and design; CFD Turbine and propeller optimization for high altitude operation. In order to, Stewart has compe- tences in Photovoltaic. His relevant applications and Experience about Aerospace: Low carbon Airport opera- tions, Non-linear and intelligent flight control for fast jets and helicopters, More Electric Aircraft: electrical ma- chines, drives and power architectures, power optimized control; Energy scavenging and recovery, power gen- eration and electrical actuators; Power system control. Related publications (others related publications in at- tachment):

Stewart, Paul and Gladwin, D. and Parr, M. and Stewart, Jill (2007) A Multiobjective G.A./Fuzzy Logic aug- mented flight controller for an F16 aircraft. In: IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems FUZZ-IEEE 2007, 23-26 July 2007, Imperial College, London, UK. Stewart, Paul and Stone, D. A. and Fleming, P. J. (2004) Design of robust fuzzy-logic control systems by multi- objective evolutionary methods with hardware in the loop. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 17 (3). pp. 275-284. ISSN 0952-1976

Chris Bingham, Professor of Energy Conversion at the University of Lincoln, and was previously Senior Lec- turer in The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK, where he was senior member of the Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group (EMD), specialising in advanced systems control and power systems. During his academic career, Prof. Bingham has made significant contributions to a diverse range of funded research, including researching and realising advanced control techniques and novel ac- tuation systems for the control of autonomous underwater vehicles and advanced missiles, electromechanical and electro-hydraulic aircraft flight control surfaces, magnetically-loaded carbon-fibre composite roller systems for multi-axis sheet material handling applications, active magnetic bearings for high–speed flywheel energy storage systems, high performance electromechanically actuated vibratory pile-drivers, and power optimized electrical machines and drives for the more electric aircraft.

Related publications (others related publications in attachment): Schofield, N. and Yap, H. T. and Bingham, Chris (2006) A hydrogen fuel cell – high energy dense battery hybrid energy/power source for an urban electric vehicle. International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Transpor- tation, 2 (2). pp. 25-31. ISSN 1773-9357 Schofield, N and Yap, H T and Bingham, Chris (2005) Hybrid energy sources for electric and fuel cell vehicle propulsion. In: Vehicle Power and Propulsion, 2005 IEEE Conference, 7-9 Sept 2005, USA.