Technical Paper
Dual Expansion Energy Recovery (DEER) Environmental Control System
2003-07-07
2003-01-2399
A balance of mission capability, agility, survivability, affordability and mission range is a key to the advanced fighter aircraft design. The advanced fighter aircraft is equipped with high power and density electronic equipment to achieve a superior level of mission capability. Electrical power supplied to this equipment is generated by engine powered generator. The heat generated by this equipment typically is cooled by an onboard environmental control system (ECS) operated by high-pressure pneumatic air from the engine compressor. Both the supplied power and power generating the cooling source are a power extraction from the engine. As fuel is the sole energy resource in the aircraft, this power presents a penalty of the use of fuel and results in reduction in the mission range. The challenge to ECS designer is to maximize the cooling capacity with the minimum energy consumption.