Dream Project

The DREAM project is the response of the engine community to commercial and environmental pressures that have come about mainly as a result of two main factors:

•  The political pressure to reduce CO2 has increased considerably since the publication of the ACARE goals.

• The increased cost of jet A-1 fuel. This has risen from just over $320 per ton in January 2004 to around $900 per ton in November 2007.

DREAM has identified potential technologies necessary to achieve the levels of improvement in engine performance necessary to counter these pressures:

• Open rotor contra-rotating engines.

• Novel enabling architectures and structures, including new mid-frame structures, active and passive engine systems to reduce variations and study active turbine control.

• DREAM will specify and characterize alternative fuels and demonstrate the operation of a small turbofan engine with the selected alternative fuel.

• The DREAM technologies will then be integrated and the engine concepts, together with alternative fuels usage, will be passed through a modified version of the Techno-Economic and Environment Risk Assessment (TERA) tool developed in VITAL and NEWAC.

The DREAM consortium, led by Rolls-Royce, is composed of 44 partners from 13 countries, providing the best expertise and capability from the EU aeronautics industry and Russia PARS Makina Ltd. is involved in DREAM WP 5.4 and is responsible for carrying the following combustor tests:

• Calibration of the fuel injector system for alternative fuel injection into turboshaft engine

• Integration of alternative fuel injector system with tuboshaft combustor test stand

• Low OPR combustion of alternative fuel/air mass flow rates within a turboshaft engine combustor

PARS Makina Ltd. is taking part in DREAM with the aim of contributing to the development and test of cleaner, reliable, environmentally friendly gas turbine engines combustors.

1

Rolls-Royce plc

RRUK

UK

2

Avio s.p.a

AVIO

IT

3

Industria de TurboPropulsores SA

ITP

ES

4

MTU Aero Engines

MTU

DE

5

Rolls-Royce Deutschland LTD&CO KG

RRD

DE

6

Snecma

SN

FR

7

Techspace Aero

TA

BE

8

Turbomeca

TM

FR

9

ARTTIC

ARTTIC

FR

10

Airbus France

Airbus

FR

11

ISAE

ISAE

FR

12

Technical University of Berlin

TUB

DE

13

Volvo Aero Corporation

VAC

SE

14

DOWTY

DOWTY

UK

15

Slesian University of Technology

SUT

PL

16

TsAGI

TsAGI

RU

17

Stichting Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium

NLR

NL

18

University of Southampton

ISVR

UK

19

Chalmers University of Technology

CHALMERS

SE

20

SCITEK

SCITEK

UK

21

Centro de Tecnologias Aeronauticas

CTA

ES

22

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

UPM

ES

23

Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Spatiales

ONERA

FR

24

Vibratec

VTC

FR

25

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.

DLR

DE

26

Politecnico Torino

POLITO

IT

27

Università degli Studi di Firenze

UNIFI

IT

28

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

EPFL

CH

29

Progesa

Progesa

IT

30

Centre de Recherche en Aéronautique, ASBL

Cenaero

BE

31

Von Karman Institute

VKI

BE

32

Central Institute of Aviation Motors

CIAM

RU

33

University of the Armed Forces Munich

UNIBWM

DE

34

Universität Stuttgart

USTUTT

DE

35

Magna Steyr

MAGNA

AT

36

Vibro-Meter

VM

CH

37

GRAZ University of Technology

TUG

AT

38

Politecnico di Milano

POLIMI

IT

39

EUROCOPTER

EC

FR

40

Technical University of  Dresden

TUD-ILK

DE

41

Pars Makina

Pars

TR

42

Cranfield University

CU

UK

43

University of Cambridge

UCAM

UK

44

Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

TUDA

DE