{"id":312,"date":"2023-12-14T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/?p=312"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:53:09","slug":"hydrogen-powered-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/2023\/12\/14\/hydrogen-powered-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"How to develop hydrogen-powered aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the aviation industry works to become more sustainable, it&#8217;s crucial to develop new ways to power aircraft to reduce carbon emissions. While there are a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/2023\/05\/01\/blog-aerospace-defense-sustainable-aviation-fuels\/?ref=blog_hydrogen_fuel_cell_parmonic\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/2023\/05\/01\/blog-aerospace-defense-sustainable-aviation-fuels\/?ref=blog_hydrogen_fuel_cell_parmonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sustainable aviation fuels<\/a> under consideration, hydrogen is a key possibility. The two main routes for designing hydrogen-powered aircraft are to either use a hydrogen fuel cell or direct combustion in a gas turbine. Keep reading to learn more about each of these options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hydrogen fuel cell propulsion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In our recent webinar on <a href=\"https:\/\/webinars.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/aerospace-defense-simulation-hydrogen-fuel-cell-propulsion-system\/?ref=blog_hydrogen_fuel_cell_parmonic\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/webinars.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/aerospace-defense-simulation-hydrogen-fuel-cell-propulsion-system\/?ref=blog_hydrogen_fuel_cell_parmonic\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hydrogen fuel cell propulsion<\/a>, St\u00e9phane Mouvand, aerospace business development manager for Simcenter system simulation at Siemens Digital Industries Software, compared these two architectures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- START: Parmonic embed-code for video -->\n<div data-v-id=\"moment\/147086\" class=\"parmonic-widget\" data-layout=\"single\"><\/div>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/js.static.parmonic.ai\/v5\/aw-single.js\"><\/script>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/js.static.parmonic.ai\/v5\/aw-init.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- END: Parmonic embed-code for video -->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hydrogen combustion engine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In that same webinar, Mouvand also talked through the hydrogen combustion concept. Watch the clip below to learn more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- START: Parmonic embed-code for video -->\n<div data-v-id=\"moment\/147089\" class=\"parmonic-widget\" data-layout=\"single\"><\/div>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/js.static.parmonic.ai\/v5\/aw-single.js\"><\/script>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/js.static.parmonic.ai\/v5\/aw-init.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- END: Parmonic embed-code for video -->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using simulation to develop a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Tom Stokes, project engineer for analysis and simulation at Ricardo Ltd., shared how the team at Ricardo uses simulation to develop a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system. The clip below gives a preview of Stokes&#8217;s presentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- START: Parmonic embed-code for video -->\n<div data-v-id=\"moment\/147090\" class=\"parmonic-widget\" data-layout=\"single\"><\/div>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/js.static.parmonic.ai\/v5\/aw-single.js\"><\/script>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/js.static.parmonic.ai\/v5\/aw-init.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- END: Parmonic embed-code for video -->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Developing hydrogen-powered aircraft<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hydrogen is showing great promise as a sustainable fuel alternative for aviation. <a href=\"https:\/\/webinars.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/aerospace-defense-simulation-hydrogen-fuel-cell-propulsion-system\/?ref=blog_hydrogen_fuel_cell_parmonic\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/webinars.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/aerospace-defense-simulation-hydrogen-fuel-cell-propulsion-system\/?ref=blog_hydrogen_fuel_cell_parmonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the full webinar<\/a> to learn more about developing hydrogen-fueled aircraft with the help of simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/webinars.sw.siemens.com\/en-US\/aerospace-defense-simulation-hydrogen-fuel-cell-propulsion-system\/?ref=blog_hydrogen_fuel_cell_parmonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the webinar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the aviation industry works to become more sustainable, it&#8217;s crucial to develop new ways to power aircraft to reduce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79496,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[441,438,439],"industry":[13],"product":[],"coauthors":[436],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webinar","tag-hydrogen-aircraft","tag-simulation","tag-sustainable-aviation","industry-aerospace-defense"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2023\/12\/Hydrogen-fueled-aircraft-1280x720-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/aerospace-defense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}