In the face of climate change, the aviation industry has also been under increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and now the aviation industry has gone a step further with the successful flight test of a hydrogen-electric engine that reduces carbon emissions. Emissions will be zero.
A 19-seater twin-engine hydrogen-electric alternative fuel plane developed by UK company ZeroAvia has become the world’s first large aircraft after successfully completing a 10-minute test flight. which has completed a successful flight on hydrogen-electric power.
According to an estimate, the global aviation industry accounts for 2.5% of the total carbon emissions and this experiment is part of efforts to reduce carbon emissions to the lowest level while hydrogen is considered an excellent alternative fuel for aircraft. That hydrogen does not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions compared to fossil fuels.
The ZeroAvia flight is part of the UK’s HyFlyer II project, which aims to develop a zero-carbon 600kW powertrain for 9- to 19-seater aircraft with a range of 300 nautical miles.
Since the successful flight of a 6-seater aircraft powered by a 250 kW hydrogen-electric powertrain in 2020, ZeroAvia has completed 30 flights with small engines.
