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Study on Performance of Closed Air Circulation System Driven by Electric Compressor

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Aircraft are developing towards the goal of low energy consumption and high efficiency; higher requirements are put forward for the energy utilization efficiency of the environmental control system. This paper presents a new type of closed air circulation system driven by an electric compressor, which can make more efficient use of aircraft energy. Aiming at the new environmental control system, the neural network algorithm was used to construct the system component model and then carry out the system simulation. The results showed that the average error between the simulation outputs and experimental values of the model constructed by this method was less than 4.5%, which effectively verifies the correctness of the system modeling. Compared with the traditional three-wheel system, the proposed environmental control system driven by an electric compressor can reduce the engine air intake by 64.5% and improve the cooling efficiency by 210%. The proposed new environmental control system can provide a reference for the design of the environmental control system of the next generation of aircraft.

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QL: conceptualization, methodology, writing—original draft, preparation, and writing—review and editing. ZG: visualization, writing—review and editing. DZ: conceptualization, methodology, supervision, and project administration.

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Lu, Q., Guangya, Z. & Zhang, D. Study on Performance of Closed Air Circulation System Driven by Electric Compressor. Int. J. Aeronaut. Space Sci. 24, 294–302 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42405-022-00509-9

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