Home Guides How Airbus Is Designing Its First Innovative Cryogenic Hydrogen Tanks?
Two Zero Emission Development Centers (ZEDCs) established by Airbus carry out the innovative tank design.
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Hydrogen can be used as an alternative jet fuel to minimize carbon emissions on future aircraft. With three times more energy density than jet fuel, emissions from hydrogen-powered aircraft are significantly less detrimental to the environment. Hydrogen can be used to power aircraft in several ways.
Conventional gas turbine engines can be modified to use liquid hydrogen for combustion. Alternatively, electrical energy can be generated using hydrogen fuel cells, which are expected to be a more robust (and continuous) power source than batteries. A hybrid approach can be taken where the two hydrogen technologies (combustion and fuel cells) are…