Project: Hydrogen multicopter
In an interdisciplinary project, students working in several teams are developing a multicopter powered by hydrogen. The “Multicopter” team is responsible for the aerodynamic and structural design of the aircraft and defines the technical requirements for the hydrogen propulsion system.
Based on this, the “H2 fuel cell” and “H2 gas turbine” teams are developing competing drive concepts, which will be selected on the basis of technological and economic criteria. Design, system integration, and construction and testing of the prototype will be carried out in close cooperation between the teams involved.
The project is jointly supervised by the Institute of Turbomachinery and Fluid-Dynamics (TFD), the Institute of Thermodynamics (IFT), the Institute of Electrical Energy Systems (IfES), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Student laboratory exercises on the fundamentals of hydrogen
In addition to the project, students acquire basic knowledge about the production and use of hydrogen in supervised laboratory experiments. In the “Production and Use of Knallgas” laboratory, hydrogen is produced by electrolysis and then burned. Relevant process variables are measured and the material flows that occur are systematically balanced.
In the “Hydrogen Combustion Temperatures” laboratory, students investigate the influence of added water vapor on the combustion temperature. By specifically lowering the temperature, the formation of nitrogen oxide emissions can be reduced or avoided. This provides practical knowledge about controlled hydrogen combustion.
The laboratory sessions are supervised by the Institute for Technical Combustion (ITV).
