Hydrogen aircraft
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki KUSUMOTO
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AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki KUSUMOTO
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A hydrogen aircraft including a gas turbine engine including a combustion gas space where a combustion gas flows and a non-combustion gas space radially adjacent to the combustion gas space; a fuel tank storing hydrogen fuel in a liquid phase; a fuel supply passage connecting the fuel tank to the gas turbine engine; a heat exchanger in the fuel supply passage and located in the combustion gas space; a heat shield movable between a first position and a second position, the first position being where the heat shield projects from the non-combustion gas space to the combustion gas space to cover at least a part of an upstream side of the heat exchanger, the second position where the heat shield is retracted from the combustion gas space to the non-combustion gas space; and an actuator moving the heat shield between the first position and the second position.
A hydrogen aircraft comprising:
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