Multi-fuel combustion for sustainable aviation
March 5 @ 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
With the climate change becoming as one of the main challenges for human existence, every sector has to contribute in reducing its climate footprint. Being an international and hard to abate sectors, aviation is struggling to find a viable replacement for kerosene. This talk focuses on a novel multi-fuel combustion strategy that is aimed at making aviation fuel agnostic. This is one of the latest endeavours that we are pursuing at TU Delft along with our industrial partners, Airbus and Safran.
Speaker: Prof. Arvind G Rao
Biography :
Dr. Arvind Gangoli Rao, is a Chair Professor of Sustainable Aircraft Propulsion at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft. Dr. Gangoli Rao obtained his masters and PhD in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and later worked at Technion, Israel as a post-doctoral researcher. Dr. Gangoli Rao is a specialist in aircraft propulsion and has worked on a variety of problems related to gas turbines and novel propulsion systems for aircraft, especially ones dealing with the usage of alternative energy sources. He has authored around 100 publications. Dr. Gangoli Rao has been involved in several EU projects and Dutch funded projects on sustainable aviation along with the industrial partners. He is the Dutch representative International Society of Air Breathing Engines (ISABE). He is also a member of the ACARE (Advisory Committee for Research and innovation in Europe) working group on Energy and Environment.