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The current trend of developing aircraft turbine engines that consume less fuel increases the cooling requirements from the lubrication systems due to higher speeds, loads and temperatures in engines as well as the integration of high-power gearboxes (allowing high by-pass ratio) and high-power starter-generators. For manufacturers there is significant pressure for developing new lubrication system architectures that are able to meet the new cooling and lubricating requirements without negatively impacting the mass of the systems or the operational and maintenance costs of engines.

Current lubrication systems in turbine engines are based on architectures and technologies that have not significantly evolved over the last thirty years. Despite improvements and advances made on components of these systems, the technological limit is being reached. In other words, new technologies are required to face the challenge of the future engine requirements (higher cooling, higher thermal efficiency, lower Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC) impact, unchanged high-level of reliability, improved mass).

ELUBSYS will remove this barrier by designing and validating innovative technologies and architectures for the lubrication systems with the view of increasing their efficiency, reducing their cost and, more importantly, reducing engine SFC.