{"id":504548,"date":"2022-07-11T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504548"},"modified":"2022-07-11T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:02:55","slug":"doubling-fuel-efficiency-aircraft-of-future-will-have-open-engines-with-large-fan-blades-says-safran-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/doubling-fuel-efficiency-aircraft-of-future-will-have-open-engines-with-large-fan-blades-says-safran-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubling fuel efficiency: \u2018Aircraft of future will have open engines with large fan blades,\u2019 says Safran CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With fan blades twice as large as they are today and open fan engines fixed on upper wings or back of airframe, commercial aircraft in the not so distant future will look radically different in their pursuit for fuel efficiency and lower emissions. While the current generation of aircraft engines are 15% more fuel efficient then their predecessors, the world\u2019s largest aerospace engine manufacturer \u2014 French MNC Safran \u2014 is aiming at doubling the same to 30% through new age engines that will require airframe changes.<br \/>\n\u201cAt four metres, the blades (of the next gen engines) would be double the two-metre diametre of the current LEAP engines and be open fan. This engine will require a new plane. That will be the decision of airframes, Airbus and Boeing. May be the next gen plane will require an upper wing or engine may be behind. We believe the airframe can bring an additional 10%. A combination of the two (20% engine tech and 10% airframe design) could lead to 30% fuel saving,\u201d Safran Global CEO and director Olivier Andri\u00e8s, 60, told TOI while giving a glimpse into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With fan blades twice as large as they are today and open fan engines fixed on upper wings or back of airframe, commercial aircraft in the not so distant future will look radically different in their pursuit for fuel efficiency and lower emissions. While the current generation of aircraft engines are 15% more fuel efficient then their predecessors, the world\u2019s largest aerospace engine manufacturer \u2014 French MNC Safran \u2014 is aiming at doubling the same to 30% through new age engines that will require airframe changes. \u201cAt four metres, the blades (of the next gen engines) would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}