GE Aviation will create an Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research & amp Development Center (EPISCENTER) near Dayton, Ohio. The center will be directed at several markets including on- and off-highway hybrid and electric vehicles, more electric aircraft and marine applications.
The exact location of the center is expected to be announced by the end of 2010 following site research, analysis and final business reviews. GE expects EPISCENTER operations to begin in 2012.
GE’s EPISCENTER will focus on advanced energy management involving electric power systems research and development including electric power generation, control, distribution and management, conversion and energy storage equipment. This center of excellence will be used to design optimized systems that deliver electric power efficiently and robustly for our military and commercial customers.
Electrification in transportation is a growth area. This center will yield system-level benefits so that our customers can more rapidly benefit from this trend in energy management, climate control, radars and sensors, silicon carbide based power conversion and electric actuation, to name a few.
—Vic Bonneau, president of Electric Power for GE Aviation Systems
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission is providing a capital grant for up to $7.6 million in support of the center. The fiscal agent for the Ohio Third Frontier grant will be the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI). The UDRI researchers will work with GE to develop and deploy advanced computer modeling, simulation and analysis of advanced, dynamic electric power systems design and controls.
The center will work on advanced electrical power systems research and development in support of hybrid electric ground vehicles, the electrification of naval surface ships and especially in the aviation industry’s More Electric Aircraft (MEA) technology.
GE’s electrical power technology path supports coming generations of commercial air transports, business and regional jets, and strategic and tactical future programs such as the ground combat vehicle, the joint light tactical vehicle, numerous public and proprietary unmanned air vehicles, and the miniaturization effort of electrical power on naval vessels.
Proximity to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) was an additional consideration in GE’s decision to locate in the Dayton region, Bonneau said.
Source: Green Car Congress
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