[Music]
[Applause]
the world is staring down the barrel of
climate change in 2015 we committed to a
global agreement to reduce our
greenhouse gas emissions so we could
keep climate change to only one and a
half degrees air transport is a special
scrutiny it’s currently it’s missions
have grown by 75% since 1990 that’s
double the rest of the economy despite
oil crisis Wars and global recession the
demand for air transport keeps growing
and it grows inexorably on an
exponential rate in fact the world
economy and in particular the New
Zealand economy relies on this growth in
New Zealand we have 12 billion dollars
of international tourism 99% of which
comes in by air we have twenty billion
dollars of our high-value exports travel
by air so even though we are expecting
and planning for the air travel to
continue its growth and it’s going to
double by 2050 we have signed up to keep
in total aviation emissions at the
current levels so to deliver that
climate agreement that we’ve made whilst
still maintaining that growth and
maintaining the economy we must achieve
a 30% improvement in in the fuel
efficiency of our aircraft business as
usual is not an option
how can this efficiency be achieved at
the Robinson Institute Research
Institute my team and I are carrying out
development that will drastically reduce
emissions from a commercial aviation was
catering to that growing demand for
patent
miles so but first let’s talk about the
current aviation technology a
rolls-royce trent 700 engine is
incredibly reliable they fail in service
for less than one event in a million
hours of flight for then the context
that’s one event in a hundred years of
running I think very few of you have got
a car engine that would do that jet
engines are super efficient they have
been developed very for a very long time
– very high efficiency but they’re super
efficient at full speed
the problem is FRA tooling up throttling
down and idling because we do a lot of
throttling up throttling down in idling
in a commercial flight we’re unlikely to
gain that fuel efficiency from a jet
engine
we need a new technology electrification
of transport is a global trend it’s
driven not just by climate emissions
it’s also driven by a requirement to
drive down the use of fuel costly
airlines manufacturers government bodies
are all focused on electrification of
air transport but there’s significant
challenges those challenges are twofold
one battery technology needs to be
become super powerful we need to have
much greater storage capacity and at the
same time they must become much much
lighter and secondly we need electric
engines that are both super efficient
and super light to enable that flight so
let’s talk about the first challenge
battery technology is developing at the
current rates of technology development
we will have batteries that are capable
of flying an electric 737 by 2050
but we need a solution by 2035 and the
number one interim solution is for
powering the motors by a turbo electric
system you can look at this as you take
the front end of a jet engine remember a
jet engine is super efficient at full
speed we take that jet engine and we run
it at full speed and we use it to power
a generator we run that turbine at a
fixed speed driving the generator at its
highest efficiency point because the
electric motor is efficient over a wide
throttle range the concept is not new
it’s in use worldwide and shipping it’s
used in train systems and so it’s
completely viable for aviation so let’s
talk about that second challenge to make
that turbo electric work
electric engines that are both super
light and super powerful right now the
best motors that have been developed and
are looking to be developed can deliver
16 kilowatts a kilo if we want to fly an
electric 737 we need to be at 26
kilowatts per kilo to get that kind of
massive increase in power to weight
ratio we need a new technology
the solution is superconducting electric
motors so what’s the superconductor well
it’s an unusual class of materials that
have a unique property they pass massive
amounts of current with no resistance
this allows vast magnetic fields to be
created it enables high current to flow
in windings without
and getting warm without dissipating
power and together that enables smaller
motors the image behind us is a
comparison of a ship motor of the same
capacity so what you can do with
superconductors you can make motors that
are 1/3 of the volume and the third of
the mass when you compare that to a
conventional motor system but this
technology was only discovered in 1987
but since that discovery of that class
of material it’s now in routine
commercial mass manufacture so my team
at the Robinson Research Institute have
been working on applications of super
conductivity since 1987 right at the
discovery me I’ve been working on the
application to machines for the last 11
years our team at the Robinson Research
Institute have supplied commercial
solutions to many clients
internationally including Siemens
including the US Air Force including
CERN and many others and these include
motor coils rotors for motors winding
cables so I think actually we know a
little bit about this my team and I are
designing a novel motor with technology
ready components ready to be applied
that is aimed at exactly that electric
737 aircraft it incorporates highly
reliable DC superconducting magnets
based on that same coated conductor new
technology and it has a simple
mechanical construction we’ve just been
granted six and a half million to
actually demonstrate that motor take it
to the demonstration stage and
accelerate the development of turbo
electric aircraft
as part of an international effort so
the global aerospace industry know that
there is only one solution to meet their
requirement and that is to reduce the
greenhouse gas emissions through hybrid
electric aircraft they are the only
viable solution they will use
aerodynamically optimized electric
motors combined with turbo fans and
those super conducting motors an
electric drivetrain provides the very
high efficiency in output and in this
way fuel efficiency gains of up to 33%
can be achieved over the existing
combustion jet technology that gives us
breathing space until battery technology
is achieved and we can get fuel
efficiency gains of more than 70% once
the batteries are there to combine with
it the concept design that shown behind
me is one from NASA that design would
not work without the power-to-weight
ratio of a superconducting motor it
would not work without one introduction
of new technology into aviation takes
time and lots of certification I’m
fairly sure that you don’t want to be
falling out of the sky when the engine
stops so introduction of technology
happens through scaling so we start with
a small scale say a regional aircraft
and it develops through and it’s
integrated and certified and it scales
up until we reach an electric 737 it
took twenty five years to take composite
technology that was used in the military
into commercial aviation which you think
nothing of now in a 787 but all
international efforts and believe all
countries are involved in this are
working on a time frame for the
conducting technology to be integrated
within a 20 to 25 year time frame they
will be flying so what does the future
hold future looks quite cool as
aerodynamic integration of the motors
and then they and the defrost system
within the wings it has a fully electric
propulsion system super conductivity has
been identified as the only way and
being critical to the development of
that electric aircraft that can deliver
low emission and enable us to meet our
commitments and when the battery
technology does get good enough aircraft
like these will deliver greater than 70
percent efficiency and fuel for those
flights turbo electric superconducting
aircraft will change the world thank you
you
[Music]
[Applause]
the world is staring down the barrel of
climate change in 2015 we committed to a
global agreement to reduce our
greenhouse gas emissions so we could
keep climate change to only one and a
half degrees air transport is a special
scrutiny it’s currently it’s missions
have grown by 75% since 1990 that’s
double the rest of the economy despite
oil crisis Wars and global recession the
demand for air transport keeps growing
and it grows inexorably on an
exponential rate in fact the world
economy and in particular the New
Zealand economy relies on this growth in
New Zealand we have 12 billion dollars
of international tourism 99% of which
comes in by air we have twenty billion
dollars of our high-value exports travel
by air so even though we are expecting
and planning for the air travel to
continue its growth and it’s going to
double by 2050 we have signed up to keep
in total aviation emissions at the
current levels so to deliver that
climate agreement that we’ve made whilst
still maintaining that growth and
maintaining the economy we must achieve
a 30% improvement in in the fuel
efficiency of our aircraft business as
usual is not an option
how can this efficiency be achieved at
the Robinson Institute Research
Institute my team and I are carrying out
development that will drastically reduce
emissions from a commercial aviation was
catering to that growing demand for
patent
miles so but first let’s talk about the
current aviation technology a
rolls-royce trent 700 engine is
incredibly reliable they fail in service
for less than one event in a million
hours of flight for then the context
that’s one event in a hundred years of
running I think very few of you have got
a car engine that would do that jet
engines are super efficient they have
been developed very for a very long time
– very high efficiency but they’re super
efficient at full speed
the problem is FRA tooling up throttling
down and idling because we do a lot of
throttling up throttling down in idling
in a commercial flight we’re unlikely to
gain that fuel efficiency from a jet
engine
we need a new technology electrification
of transport is a global trend it’s
driven not just by climate emissions
it’s also driven by a requirement to
drive down the use of fuel costly
airlines manufacturers government bodies
are all focused on electrification of
air transport but there’s significant
challenges those challenges are twofold
one battery technology needs to be
become super powerful we need to have
much greater storage capacity and at the
same time they must become much much
lighter and secondly we need electric
engines that are both super efficient
and super light to enable that flight so
let’s talk about the first challenge
battery technology is developing at the
current rates of technology development
we will have batteries that are capable
of flying an electric 737 by 2050
but we need a solution by 2035 and the
number one interim solution is for
powering the motors by a turbo electric
system you can look at this as you take
the front end of a jet engine remember a
jet engine is super efficient at full
speed we take that jet engine and we run
it at full speed and we use it to power
a generator we run that turbine at a
fixed speed driving the generator at its
highest efficiency point because the
electric motor is efficient over a wide
throttle range the concept is not new
it’s in use worldwide and shipping it’s
used in train systems and so it’s
completely viable for aviation so let’s
talk about that second challenge to make
that turbo electric work
electric engines that are both super
light and super powerful right now the
best motors that have been developed and
are looking to be developed can deliver
16 kilowatts a kilo if we want to fly an
electric 737 we need to be at 26
kilowatts per kilo to get that kind of
massive increase in power to weight
ratio we need a new technology
the solution is superconducting electric
motors so what’s the superconductor well
it’s an unusual class of materials that
have a unique property they pass massive
amounts of current with no resistance
this allows vast magnetic fields to be
created it enables high current to flow
in windings without
and getting warm without dissipating
power and together that enables smaller
motors the image behind us is a
comparison of a ship motor of the same
capacity so what you can do with
superconductors you can make motors that
are 1/3 of the volume and the third of
the mass when you compare that to a
conventional motor system but this
technology was only discovered in 1987
but since that discovery of that class
of material it’s now in routine
commercial mass manufacture so my team
at the Robinson Research Institute have
been working on applications of super
conductivity since 1987 right at the
discovery me I’ve been working on the
application to machines for the last 11
years our team at the Robinson Research
Institute have supplied commercial
solutions to many clients
internationally including Siemens
including the US Air Force including
CERN and many others and these include
motor coils rotors for motors winding
cables so I think actually we know a
little bit about this my team and I are
designing a novel motor with technology
ready components ready to be applied
that is aimed at exactly that electric
737 aircraft it incorporates highly
reliable DC superconducting magnets
based on that same coated conductor new
technology and it has a simple
mechanical construction we’ve just been
granted six and a half million to
actually demonstrate that motor take it
to the demonstration stage and
accelerate the development of turbo
electric aircraft
as part of an international effort so
the global aerospace industry know that
there is only one solution to meet their
requirement and that is to reduce the
greenhouse gas emissions through hybrid
electric aircraft they are the only
viable solution they will use
aerodynamically optimized electric
motors combined with turbo fans and
those super conducting motors an
electric drivetrain provides the very
high efficiency in output and in this
way fuel efficiency gains of up to 33%
can be achieved over the existing
combustion jet technology that gives us
breathing space until battery technology
is achieved and we can get fuel
efficiency gains of more than 70% once
the batteries are there to combine with
it the concept design that shown behind
me is one from NASA that design would
not work without the power-to-weight
ratio of a superconducting motor it
would not work without one introduction
of new technology into aviation takes
time and lots of certification I’m
fairly sure that you don’t want to be
falling out of the sky when the engine
stops so introduction of technology
happens through scaling so we start with
a small scale say a regional aircraft
and it develops through and it’s
integrated and certified and it scales
up until we reach an electric 737 it
took twenty five years to take composite
technology that was used in the military
into commercial aviation which you think
nothing of now in a 787 but all
international efforts and believe all
countries are involved in this are
working on a time frame for the
conducting technology to be integrated
within a 20 to 25 year time frame they
will be flying so what does the future
hold future looks quite cool as
aerodynamic integration of the motors
and then they and the defrost system
within the wings it has a fully electric
propulsion system super conductivity has
been identified as the only way and
being critical to the development of
that electric aircraft that can deliver
low emission and enable us to meet our
commitments and when the battery
technology does get good enough aircraft
like these will deliver greater than 70
percent efficiency and fuel for those
flights turbo electric superconducting
aircraft will change the world thank you
you
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