Innovative Jet Pump Ice Protection System for A400M

2015-01-2136

06/15/2015

Event
SAE 2015 International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures
Authors Abstract
Content
A system has been designed for the A400M wherein engine air intake ice protection is provided by hot air bled from the engine cooled by air from inside the nacelle with a jet pump.
Two variants of the system were developed. The first had an active temperature and pressure control downstream of the jet pump, and the second was without temperature control.
Maximum temperature was a constraint for the design of the system since the engine air intake is manufactured in aluminum. In addition, several other constraints appeared during the detailed design of the system;
  • the tight space allocation inside the nacelle limited the length of the jet pump,
  • the low temperature provided by the engine bleed in flight idle limited the secondary flow used to cool the engine bleed, and
  • the complex air distribution needed to supply air to the intake areas.
The design, validation and verification of the system went through several stages;
  • analyses,
  • hot air mass flow validation testing of the intake in icing tunnel,
  • testing of the ice protection system, intake and engine all together in an Altitude Test Facility and,
  • testing in the aircraft natural icing flight test campaign
All of them were used to show compliance with EASA CS-25 regulation.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2136
Pages
7
Citation
Redondo, F., "Innovative Jet Pump Ice Protection System for A400M," SAE Technical Paper 2015-01-2136, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2136.
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Publisher
Published
Jun 15, 2015
Product Code
2015-01-2136
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English