Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Propulsion Systems: O...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Propulsion Systems: Overview

Author Name : Bhushan Chavan, Pooja Gajbhiye, Khushboo Gupta, Shruti Dipak Jadhav

ABSTRACT

Today, with several environmental challenges such as global warming, the demand for clean and renewable fuels is ever increasing. Since the aviation industry in Sweden is responsible for the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the motor traffic, a change to a non-polluting energy source for flying vehicles would be considerable progress. Therefore, this project has designed a hybrid system of a battery and a fuel cell and investigated how different combinations of battery and fuel cell. As batteries possess a high specific power but are heavy, the fuel cells with high specific energy complement them with a sustained and lightweight power supply, which makes the hybrid perfect for aviation.

Keywords: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Propulsion, Hybrid, Series, Parallel.