This November, ONERA welcomed CONCERTO H2 PoC team and EASA Panel 7 experts, to visit the PyCoFiRe facility in Centre Fauga-Mauzac.
PyCoFiRe is the core of the CONCERTO activities related to the characterization of H2 behaviour inside an engine compartment simulating H2 leaks at different flight conditions.
Aligned with the global project goals, this meeting served as an early exchange with the EASA on the research activities on-going to feed the regulatory discussions, with focus posed on H2 leaks and fire characterization through testing and simulation.
The fruitful gathering, supported by ONERA, Safran, Airbus, and EASA, served to align in the global view, capturing the expectations and defining further steps for collaboration.
PyCoFiRe is an experimental facility, which provides the capacity to conduct research into aviation fire safety, with the issues of fire propagation and extinguishing but also fire resistance of composite materials. The facility consists of two annular compartments at full scale (1:1), representative of CORE and FAN areas around the turbojet engine. A new feature was developed and installed to perform Helium (H2 substitute for safety reasons) leak test campaign in the FAN test bench. The concentration measurements in different conditions of ventilation will be an important and useful database for the development and simulation tools able to assess H2 fire risk.
Stay tuned for more outstanding updates!
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