• Home
• About
• Study Aerospace
• News
• Events
• Contact us
• People
• Facilities
• Projects
  • 2ZERO Project
  • ORCHESTRA Project
  • SAEL Initiative
  • Women in Aviation and Aerospace Charter
  • Clean Sky
    • ACHIEVE Project
    • ACUHRA Project
    • AERIS Project
    • AORBIT Project
    • ASPIRE Project
    • ASTRAL Project
    • DevTMF Project
    • EMINEO Project
    • ENIGMA Project
    • ESTEEM Project
    • GAINS Project
    • H2LSPC Project
    • IDEN Project
    • IGNITE Project
    • INSTEP Project
    • LIFT Project
    • MALET Project
    • MARQUESS Project
    • MISSION Project
    • PHIVE Project
    • PROTEUSS Project
    • QUICK Project
    • SILENTPROP Project
    • STIMULANT Project
    • TAILSURF Project
    • TRADE Project
    • VADIS Project
    • WINGPULSE Project
  • MSCA
• Research
• Space
• Industry Partners

LIFT Project

LIFT Lightweight Innovative Generator for Future Air Transportation

The aim of LIFT is to develop innovative, lightweight, multifunctional solutions for the inactive parts of a MW-class generator to be used within future hybrid-electric aircraft architectures. The generator system will be of a high power (>1MW), high speed (>10,000rpm) and will achieve low overall mass (i.e. >25 kW/kg) through the optimized use of high-strength, light materials, combined with the exploitation of the properties of such materials for improved thermal management.

As presented within this section, from the preliminary analysis on an existing 20kW/kg generator using conventional materials, it is foreseen that with the light-weighting innovations proposed herewith the overall power density of the generator could improve by around 50% to 30kW/kg, exceeding the set target of 25kW/kg. More importantly, through the demonstrated results and achievements within this project, the case for the next generation, cleaner hybrid-electric and electric aircraft will become increasingly stronger and accelerate the wider technology realization.

Diagram of technical contributions to LIFT

For more information about the LIFT project please contact:

Prof Chris Gerada
Project PI

This project has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 821399.