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Method for controlling thermal effluents generated by an aircraft and cooling device for an aircraft implementing said method

US8677755B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH · DE
AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS · FR

Inventors

Guillaume Bulin · Blagnac, FR
Jan Dittmar · Buxtehude, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 12, 2008
Grant date	Mar 25, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 25, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T50/60
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for management of thermal effluents of an aircraft that includes an airframe (110) and at least one propulsion system (112), whereby the at least one propulsion system (112) includes a gas turbine engine (116) that is supplied with fuel via a fuel supply circuit (122) that extends from a reservoir (124) that is arranged at the airframe (110), whereby the airframe (110) includes at least one source of thermal effluents (134), wherein the process includes at least partially dissipating—at the level of at least one propulsion system (112)—the thermal effluents that are generated at the airframe (110) by using as coolant the fuel that is used for supplying the gas turbine engine (116).

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