MOSCOW, July 5-RIA Novosti. The Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building (CIAM) named after Baranov will show at the MAKS-2021 salon aircraft-flying laboratories with hybrid and fully electric power plants, the press service of CIAM told RIA Novosti.
CIAM will present the Yak-40LL aircraft with a hybrid powerplant that complements two standard turbojet engines. It consists of a battery pack, an electric motor with a capacity of 500 kW (680 horsepower) and a power unit for its power supply - a turboprop engine and an electric generator connected to it. The electric motor is 5-20% more economical than its analogues due to the use of high-temperature superconducting technologies and cryogenic cooling.
The company will also show for the first time a fully electric power plant for the Sigma-4 ultralight manned training aircraft. The electric motor of this power plant with a capacity of 80 kW (109 horsepower) is powered by a battery pack of lithium-ion battery cells.
In addition, the Institute will show a power plant based on a two-section turbocharged rotary-piston aircraft engine with an electric generator EU-RPD350T for vertical take-off and landing aircraft, as well as a mock-up of a two-megawatt power plant based on electric conductors.
"The hybrid and electric power plants developed at CIAM are already at the stage of flight tests, we will be happy to present them to the public at MAKS 2021 ... Our task as the head institute is to gain new knowledge as part of the formation of an advanced scientific and technical reserve, to test the viability of new technical solutions and promising technologies "in iron," the press service quotes the words of CIAM CEO Mikhail Gordin.
It is noted that it will be possible to see electric aircraft at the unified exhibition of the SIC "Zhukovsky Institute".
According to the CIAM, hybrid and electric power plants will improve economic and environmental performance, as well as allow creating aircraft for vertical or ultrashort takeoff and landing.
The MAKS-2021 air Show will be held from July 20 to 25 in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. RIA Novosti is the general information partner of the MAKS-2021 air Show, Sputnik agency is the official information partner.
