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Hydrogen in Aviation and Space: Opportunities and Challenges

Date: March 12, 2025 - March 13, 2025
Location: von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 72 Waterloosesteenweg Sint-Genesius-Rode, 1640, Belgique
Contact: secretariat@vki.ac.be
Phone: +3223599604

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The objectives of the workshop are summarized as follows:

  • Aerospace enables knowledge and experience transfer of hydrogen to Aeronautics 
  • Aeronautics drives the cost reduction for Aerospace by providing new investments to hydrogen-critical materials, technologies and procedures 
  • The Workshop investigates Synergies between Aerospace & Aeronautics, common and different objectives, lessons learned 

Wednesday 12 March 2025

10:30 - 11:00 Registration for the visit of the VKI laboratories

11:00 - 12:30 Visit of the VKI laboratories (first register for the workshop, then you will receive an email to register for the visit of the laboratories)

12:30 -13:30 Lunch (for participants of the lab visit)

13:00 Registration for those not attending the lab tour (no lunch)

13:30 - 14:00 Introduction (VKI, EUCASS, EASN)

Focus Area 1 - Handling & Logistics

14:00 - 14:30 Keynote: Hydrogen energy: A journey underway at Air Liquide to meet the challenges of hydrogen for aviation and space, Jean-Pierre Planckaert, Air Liquide

14:30 - 14:50 Decarbonization at Brussels airport in the stargate project
Charlotte Verreydt, Brussels airport

14:50- 15:10 Technology Transfer from Space - System Design, Testing and Operation of Liquid Hydrogen Systems
Daniela Lindner, DLR Lampoldhausen

15:10 - 15:30:20 LH2 implementation at the Guiana Space Center
Patrick Burdaszewski , CNES

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Focus Area 2 - On-board integration 1 (Storage)

16:00 - 16:30 Keynote: Overcoming the Cold Facts: LH2 Storage Solutions for Space Exploration, Gustavo Moreno, Ariane Group

16:30 - 16:50 Aviation hydrogen tanks: design – integration – challenges
George Lampeas , University of Patras

16:50 - 17:10 Assessing the sensitivity of hydrogen storage design parameters on aircraft level
Tim Burschyk, DLR Hamburg

17:10 - 17:30 Sloshing and thermodynamic response of a LH2 tank
Jean-Baptiste Gouriet, VKI

17:30 End of day 1

19:00 Social Event: Walking dinner at Restaurant "La Sucrerie", Hotel Van Der Valk, Waterloo 

Thursday 13 March 2025


9:00 -  09:15 Introduction

Focus Area 3 - On board integration 2  (Support Equipment)

09:15- 09:30 LH2 devlopment at NLR
Frank Wokke (TBC), NLR

09:45 - 10:05 How to use H2 on space launcher applications
Lilian Prevost, CNES

10:05 - 10:25 Multiphase and microgravity aspects related to hydrogen applications in space
Johan Steelant, ESA

10:25 - 10:45 TBD

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

Focus Area 4 - Enabling technologies

11:15 - 11:45 Kerynote: Overview of the funded research on hydrogen under Clean Aviation, Janik Fernandez, Clean aviation

11:45 - 12:05 TBD

12:05 - 12:25 Digital twins on hydrogen propulsion
Pacôme Magnin, Siemens

12:25 - 12:45 Robust Sustainability Assessment of Liquid Hydrogen Aircraft Tanks
Konstantinos Tserpes, University of Patras

12:45 - 13:00 Concluding remarks

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Concluding session

14:30 - 15:00   Special Keynote (TBD)


15:00 - 16:00   Roundtable and exchanges on challenges

16:00  End of the workshop

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