This paper proposes novel Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power Unit (FCAPU) for J150+ aircraft application. The primary version of APU in J150+ aircraft is a gas turbine Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) which is based on gas turbine jet engine but in the suggested FCAPU, the generated electrical power is achieved from chemical energy with higher efficiency. The Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology is used to...

Sensor selection optimization can lead to significant improvements in the controllability and observability of a dynamic system. The aim of this research is to investigate optimal or alternate measurement sets for aircraft gas turbine engine health parameter estimation. A brute force search for the best sensor set is too computationally expensive. Therefore, a Monte Carlo approach is used to pe...

The article addresses data-driven fault detection in commercial aircraft gas turbine engines in the framework of multisensor information fusion and symbolic dynamic filtering. The hierarchical decision and control structure, adopted in this article, involves construction of composite patterns, namely, atomic patterns extracted from single sensors, and relational patterns representing cross-depe...

Development of robust and highly sensitive algorithms for detecting incipient bearing faults in gas turbine engines will greatly benefit both military and civil aviation through improved aircraft reliability and maintainability. Techniques including advanced vibration analysis and oil debris monitoring have proven effective in laboratory and industrial settings, but factors including poor trans...

The high replacement costs of aircraft gas turbine blades and vanes have created a fast-growing, highly-specialized segment of the aircraft repair industry. The economic rationale for repair in lieu of replacement is prima facie. The metallurgical rationale is less certain, but satisfactory flight performance over the past twenty-five years at least attests to the technical adequacy of blade an...

Identi cation results for the shaft-speed dynamics of an aircraft gas turbine, under normal operation, are presented. As it has been found that the dynamics vary with the operating point, nonlinear models are employed. Two di7erent approaches are considered: NARX models, and neural network models, namely multilayer perceptrons, radial basis function networks and B-spline networks. A special att...