Workshop EUCASS / EASN / VKI

Hydrogen in Aviation and Space: Opportunities and Challenges

12 -13 March 2025

Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium (near Brussels)

Hydrogen in Aviation and Space: Opportunities and Challenges

About

The objectives of the workshop are summarized as follows:

  • Aerospace enables knowledge and experience transfer of hydrogen to Aeronautics 
  • Aeronautics drives the cost reduction for Aerospace by providing new investments to hydrogen-critical materials, technologies and procedures 
  • The Workshop investigates Synergies between Aerospace & Aeronautics, common and different objectives, lessons learned 

The workshop will be preceded by a visit to the VKI laboratories in the morning of the first day (12th of March). Please register for the workshop first. You will then be asked by email if you would like to visit the laboratories.

LS Address

Waterloosesteenweg, 72, 1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium (near Brussels)

Agenda

Wednesday 12 March 2025 


10:30 - 11:00 Registration for the visit of the VKI laboratories

11:00 - 12:30 Visit of the VKI laboratories (first register for the workshop, then you will receive an email to register for the visit of the laboratories)

12:30 -13:30 Lunch (for participants of the lab visit)

13:00 Registration for those not attending the lab tour (no lunch)

13:30 - 14:00 Introduction (VKI, EUCASS, EASN)

Focus Area 1 - Handling & Logistics

14:00 - 14:30 Keynote: Hydrogen energy: A journey underway at Air Liquide to meet the challenges of hydrogen for aviation and space, Jean-Pierre Planckaert, Air Liquide

14:30 - 14:50 Decarbonization at Brussels airport in the stargate project
Charlotte Verreydt, Brussels airport

14:50- 15:10 Technology Transfer from Space - System Design, Testing and Operation of Liquid Hydrogen Systems
Daniela Lindner, DLR Lampoldhausen

15:10 - 15:30:20 LH2 implementation at the Guiana Space Center
Patrick Burdaszewski , CNES

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Focus Area 2 - On-board integration 1 (Storage)

16:00 - 16:30 Keynote: Overcoming the Cold Facts: LH2 Storage Solutions for Space Exploration, Gustavo Moreno, Ariane Group

16:30 - 16:50 Aviation hydrogen tanks: design – integration – challenges
George Lampeas , University of Patras

16:50 - 17:10 Assessing the sensitivity of hydrogen storage design parameters on aircraft level
Tim Burschyk, DLR Hamburg

17:10 - 17:30 Sloshing and thermodynamic response of a LH2 tank
Jean-Baptiste Gouriet, VKI

17:30 End of day 1

19:00 Social Event: Walking dinner at Restaurant "La Sucrerie", Hotel Van Der Valk, Waterloo 

Thursday 13 March 2025


9:00 -  09:15 Introduction

Focus Area 3 - On board integration 2  (Support Equipment)

09:15- 09:30 LH2 devlopment at NLR
Frank Wokke (TBC), NLR

09:45 - 10:05 How to use H2 on space launcher applications
Lilian Prevost, CNES

10:05 - 10:25 Multiphase and microgravity aspects related to hydrogen applications in space
Johan Steelant, ESA

10:25 - 10:45 TBD

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

Focus Area 4 - Enabling technologies

11:15 - 11:45 Kerynote: Overview of the funded research on hydrogen under Clean Aviation, Janik Fernandez, Clean aviation

11:45 - 12:05 TBD

12:05 - 12:25 Digital twins on hydrogen propulsion
Pacôme Magnin, Siemens

12:25 - 12:45 Robust Sustainability Assessment of Liquid Hydrogen Aircraft Tanks
Konstantinos Tserpes, University of Patras

12:45 - 13:00 Concluding remarks

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Concluding session

14:30 - 15:00   Special Keynote (TBD)

15:00 - 16:00   Roundtable and exchanges on challenges

16:00  End of the workshop

Fee and Registration

The registration fee of 150 € includes coffee breaks, lunches and the walking dinner.

Accommodation

The walking dinner will take place at the restaurant "Le Sucrerie" in Waterloo (near VKI). We therefore recommend that you book a hotel in Waterloo. A direct public bus will take you from Waterloo to the VKI in less than 15 minutes. The bus stops in front of the VKI.
The recommended hotels are listed below

Social Activity

The walking dinner on 12 March will take place at the restaurant "Le Sucrerie" in Waterloo (near VKI).


La Sucrerie

Chaussée de Tervuren 198
1410 Waterloo
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