MEA 2024 – International Conference on More Electrical Aircraft Towards cleaner aviation

February 07 & 08, 2024 - ISAE Supaero, Toulouse

The transition to more electric aircraft, driven by the strong goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions for civil aviation by 2050, is a growing challenge for industry and society.

Such an evolution towards cleaner aviation requires pushing the limits of conventional approaches and carrying out transformations leading to new vehicle configurations with an innovative propulsion system, new energy sources and efficient energy management.

Current research programs, developments, prototypes, etc. in France, in Europe and beyond, offer new hybrid, all-electric, hydrogen, turboelectric, and potentially distributed concepts. The design of this future generation of more electrically powered aircraft raises challenges not only of structure and aerodynamics, but also of energy storage and distribution, electrical architecture, thermal management, reliability and certification. All these topics will be discussed at the MEA 2024 conference.

The program will be available begining of 2024. 

Main topics :

• Architectures, design and control of Hybrid/All Electric aircraft, including UAM ;
• Propulsion systems for Hybrid/All Electric Aircraft ;
• Hydrogen on board – including fuel cell – and associated challenges ;
• Electrification of non-propulsive loads (Actuation systems, ECS, IPS,..) ;
• High electric power generation and management ;
• Power conversion and distribution, superconductivity and cryogeny ;
• Thermal management and cooling systems ;
• EMC management ;
• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Health monitoring and Safety for Hybrid/All Electric Aircraft ;
• Certification for Hybrid/All Electric Aircraft ;
• Test bench platforms for Hybrid/All Electric Aircraft ;
• Life cycle assessment and environmental impact of Hybrid/All Electric Aircraft.