Our tasks

Five tasks: • Evaluate the potential for global warming reduction across the passenger aviation fleet • Use a multi-disciplinary design, analysis, and optimization approach to identify and model hydrogen-fueled aircraft for the fleet • Develop a feasible power generation and energy conversion subsystem • Develop a feasible power electronics, distribution, and motor-driven propulsion subsystem •… Continue reading Our tasks

Our Goals

Figure out how to use liquid hydrogen as fuel • Burning hydrogen to produce electricity has water vapor as exhaust. • Solving challenges related to safety, engineering, electrical, thermal, infrastructure, and societal acceptance helps aviation. Increase power and efficiency without increasing weight • Liquid hydrogen is very cold (cryogenic), which enables using superconductors to greatly… Continue reading Our Goals

NASA selects FAMU-FSU College of Engineering to help develop sustainable aviation system

IZEA Team at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering will help NASA develop the future of sustainable aviation as part of a five-year, $10 million project. FAMU-FSU Professor of Mechanical Engineering Louis Cattafesta will lead a team in developing a hybrid electric power system that uses turboelectric generators and fuel cells. The system is powered by hydrogen… Continue reading NASA selects FAMU-FSU College of Engineering to help develop sustainable aviation system