The more electric aircraft (MEA) initiative highlights the deployment of electrical power in place of hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical power to optimize the performance and life cycle cost of the aircraft.
The MEA requires high reliability, fault-tolerant, autonomously controlled electrical power system to provide higher quality power and electrical levels to the aircraft's loads.The aviation industry is focusing on hybrid-electric propulsion as well as all-electric propulsion.
Hybrid architecture is one of the solutions for the industry to reduce weight, fuel burn, and environmental impact, particularly by avoiding the requirements to design the main combustion engine to meet maximum power requirements, for example, at take-off.The research is based on extensive primary interviews (in-house experts, industry leaders, and market players) and secondary research (a host of paid and unpaid databases), along with the analytical tools that have been used to build the forecast, and the predictive models.The non-propulsive aircraft systems such as actuation, de-icing, and air-conditioning have been relying on mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic sources of power.
These systems have conventionally been powered by the aircraft engines, with power generated through various mechanisms such as hydraulic and electric systems, which gain power from mechanical conversion through the engine gearbox, whereas pneumatic power is generated by engine compressor air bleed systems.Request for the Sample Report at: https://bisresearch.com/requestsample?id=941=downloadIn a more electric aircraft (MEA), the aircraft employs more electrical equipment in place of systems that would earlier have been mechanical, hydraulic, or pneumatic.
The B737 became the first aircraft which introduced electrical cabin equipment and avionics.
After this, MEA trend followed the introduction of the fly by wire (FBW) system in the Airbus A320 in the late 1980s.
