Synano is part of ADENEAS (Advanced Data and Power Electrical Network Architectures and Systems), funded under H2020 MG 2020 SingleStage INEA. The project develops a power and data distribution network for electric aircraft that is safe, lightweight, self-configuring, and scalable across all aircraft sizes. Synano’s contribution focuses on how nanofluids and nanoparticle coatings can improve energy efficiency in single and two-phase cooling systems, with the goal of reducing weight and increasing thermal performance.
Over three years, starting 2021, Synano worked alongside NLR (Netherlands Aerospace Centre), Evektor, Collins Aerospace, and Fokker Elmo. Synano designed and built laboratory level pool boiling and single-phase cooling setups to test nanofluids and nanoparticle coatings against unmodified base fluids. The results were clear. Nanoparticle coatings reduced heat source surface temperatures by 3°C at 125W compared to the original surface. In pool boiling experiments, the maximum superheat temperature reduction reached 9°C for coated surfaces versus unmodified ones at a heat flux of 20 W/cm2.
Current work focuses on developing robust coatings for both single and two-phase systems, to be tested at Evektor and NLR facilities respectively. An in-house flow boiling system is also in development, serving as the ADENEAS demonstrator and testing superheat reduction across different cooling liquids.
More about the consortium at adeneas-project.eu.
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