CTB-cryo: Component Test Bed for Cryogenic Renewable Fuels - a pre-study

Hydrogen propulsion has significant potential to reduce the climate impact in aviation, either through direct combustion in gas turbines or in fuel cells to drive electrically powered hybrid engines.

Access to open data from heat transfer experiments with cryogenic hydrogen gas is limited to the early efforts made in the early 1960s in connection with the use of cryogenic hydrogen for rocket propulsion.

To ensure a necessary acceleration of the science around cryogenic hydrogen, it is necessary that more test facilities be established within the academy.

The overall aim of this pre-study is to produce a realistic and comprehensive design of a test bed to primarily cover national and European needs for academic research & industrial development of components for cryogenic fuels such as liquid hydrogen.

A goal is also to disseminate the results to all relevant environments within the area through the contact networks of participating partners as well as via seminars and publications.