In Novosibirsk, created a fully aluminum aircraft engine

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The world's first all-aluminum aircraft engine was able to create the designers of the Novosibirsk State Technical University. Even those parts that are subjected to the highest loads are made of aluminum: the crankshaft, sleeves and flywheel.

The use of aluminum instead of steel made it possible to reduce the weight of the engine by 40 – 50% compared to traditional engines of similar power. When equipped, it will weigh at least 200 kg, while the weight of the predecessor, the M-14P engine, will be at least 250 kg.



In Novosibirsk, created a fully aluminum aircraft engine


At the same time, the power of the new engine increased by 40 horsepower - to 400 horsepower, and fuel consumption decreased by about 15%.

Aluminum has already been used in aviation and automotive engines, but high-load parts are still made of steel. Scientists managed to replace them with aluminum ones using a special technology of plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), created at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the SB RAS.

The new engine is planned to be installed on the YAK-52 aircraft, which are used as training aircraft in DOSAAF schools, as well as private and commercial aircraft.

Ground tests of the engine were successfully performed at the Mochishche airfield near Novosibirsk 19 on January 2018. Now the creators will test the declared engine life, which is not less than that of steel motors - 2 000 hours. After that, the engine will be installed on the Yak-52, and its flight tests will begin.

The engine will use regular AI-95 gasoline. Also, it will be installed autonomous heating system. It is assumed that in serial production the engine will be half the price of modern analogues.

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  1. +12
    23 January 2018 17: 35
    This one would be a dvigun, yes to our UAV type Altair ..
    1. +28
      23 January 2018 19: 14
      Yeah. The predecessor weighed 250 kg, and aluminum - 200, which is 40-50% lighter. belay
      1. +11
        23 January 2018 19: 15
        Quote: siberalt
        Yeah. The predecessor weighed 250 kg, and aluminum - 200, which is 40-50% lighter. belay

        Journalists, what can I say ... lol
        1. AUL
          +8
          23 January 2018 21: 03
          At AriHmetika journalism - not a specialized subject! So they can.
      2. 0
        23 January 2018 22: 36
        Quote: siberalt
        Yeah. The predecessor weighed 250 kg, and aluminum - 200, which is 40-50% lighter.

        In running order, whatever that means. For such devices, as in the photo, the engine is a single power unit along with fuel, perhaps, but maybe I'm wrong.
      3. +1
        24 January 2018 07: 56
        Yeah. The predecessor weighed 250 kg, and aluminum - 200, which is 40-50% lighter. belay

        Interest and kilograms beguiled laughing zhurnalyugi their mother am
      4. 0
        24 January 2018 08: 09
        Here's the keyword: Fully equipped. That is, seasoned with butter and antifreeze.
    2. Maz
      +8
      23 January 2018 21: 04
      Akademgorodok, thank God, is alive and working. And scientists and scouts.
      1. +3
        24 January 2018 07: 19
        NSTU is not an academic campus like BE))) this is the former NETI at the student hi
        1. 0
          24 January 2018 16: 45
          Quote: dik-nsk
          NSTU is not an academic campus like BE))) this is the former NETI at the student hi
          Scientists managed to replace them with aluminum using a special technology of plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), created at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the SB RAS.
          The Institute of Inorganics is located in the academic town, on Lavrentiev Avenue. hi
  2. +5
    23 January 2018 17: 36
    For light-weight aviation, this is necessary. Moreover, we put everything imported on small planes.
  3. +6
    23 January 2018 17: 39
    On the Yak-52? This is already history. We will not see it now.
    1. +23
      23 January 2018 17: 46
      In Russia, this “story” is still worth several hundred aircraft at flying clubs. Many with exhausted engines, and there are no new engines and there is nothing to replace. The plane itself is very good. I flew such a flying club at the end of the 80's. At our old airdrome, the air club is located now, there are airplanes, and the resource has been exhausted. It’s easier to buy a new engine than a full airplane. hi
      1. +9
        23 January 2018 18: 15
        Major 71 hi "But the worst thing is that many field airfields were given to companies for development, and their entire fleet was destroyed! The planes were simply dismantled for scrap! Now there is no that Soviet romance, now business is paramount! Profit at all costs! am We have lost a lot in sports aviation! !!
        1. +2
          23 January 2018 19: 44
          Quote: Herkulesich
          But the worst thing is that many field airfields have been given to companies for development, and their entire fleet has been destroyed!

          ... I can’t say for everyone, but to this day, Devau, to this day an airfield of the 2nd class, fly, jump ... although for a long time in the city of Kaliningrad ...
          Quote: Herkulesich
          Now there is no that Soviet romance, now business is paramount! Profit at all costs! We have lost a lot in sports aviation! !!

          ... Soviet romance ended with the collapse of the Communists - the USSR! ... you do not press the Red flag? ...
          1. 0
            23 January 2018 20: 21
            Quote: Inok10

            ... Soviet romance ended with the collapse of the Communists - the USSR! ... you do not press the Red flag? ...


            It’s as if the commies aren’t in power now ... hehe laughing And it is precisely those now in power who destroyed the USSR !!! Come and you were in the pioneers, the Komsomol? Ali was young green yet?
            1. +3
              23 January 2018 20: 27
              Quote: Nasr
              As if the commies weren’t in power now ... hehe Pody and you were in the pioneers, the Komsomol? Ali was young green yet?

              ... essentially have something to say ?! ... at 91 I was sitting on the barracks at the headquarters of the Military Military District ... bother to speak on the topic, not by identity ... since they’re “hooked” on part of my comment ... tongue
              1. +1
                23 January 2018 20: 31
                when you say:
                Quote: Inok10
                ... you do not press the Red flag? ...


                and then:

                Quote: Inok10
                ... bother to talk on the topic, not on the person ...



                It looks dissonant ... tongue
                1. +1
                  23 January 2018 20: 34
                  Quote: Nasr
                  It looks dissonant ...

                  ... I do not feed such ... laughing
                  1. +1
                    23 January 2018 20: 35
                    Clearly, "merged" on the facts ... good evening! hi
                    1. +1
                      23 January 2018 20: 43
                      Quote: Nasr
                      Clearly "merged" on the facts

                      ... laughing laughing laughing ... at least you would have looked at my registration on the resource ... since January 2014 ... your Personnel has not been a Secret or News for me for a long time ... Come out ... laughing
                      1. +1
                        23 January 2018 20: 46
                        I look more at a person than at elegant shoulder straps !! wassat
                        PS
                        Yes, and ... why, when not saying anything - go to rudeness and rudeness, even the honored smart generals? winked
                      2. 0
                        24 January 2018 03: 18
                        Quote: Nasr
                        I look more at a person than at elegant shoulder straps !!

                        ... come on ?! ... then my age was of interest, quote:
                        Quote: Nasr
                        Come and you were in the pioneers, the Komsomol? Ali was young green yet?

                        ... "Non-standard" or what? ... laughing
                        ... and got to the bottom of the epaulette, Enviously? ... Behave yourself ... wassat
                        Quote: Nasr
                        pass to rudeness and rudeness, even the honored smart generals?

                        ... definitely Custom ... bully
        2. +9
          23 January 2018 21: 00
          Herculesic

          Do you know anything about sports aviation and DOSAAF ??
        3. Maz
          0
          23 January 2018 21: 06
          Where normal leadership everything works. What did you want to live under capitalism by Soviet standards? It's not gonna go
      2. +3
        23 January 2018 19: 10
        Yes, we don’t have any spare parts! At least today we will put the AN-2 on the wing. There are no pistons and percale. We killed us. We are spinning as we can. For the 17th year, 12 cars have been installed on the wing. Today, the mustache! Denyushki-yok! The rest 22 cars, probably in disassembly.
      3. +9
        23 January 2018 21: 08
        major071

        All of course cool ... Engine and all the main ....
        But you are talking nonsense ...
        Do not mislead members of the forum ///
    2. +4
      23 January 2018 18: 58
      Quote: VERESK
      On the Yak-52? This is already history. We will not see it now.

      Yeah, it is, we will not see:
      "In September 2015, Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Yuri Borisov announced that the airborne forces intend to acquire 150 Yak-152, developed in the Yakovlev Design Bureau for the initial training of pilots."
      1. 0
        23 January 2018 19: 29
        Quote: Moore
        "In September 2015, Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Yuri Borisov announced that the airborne forces intend to acquire 150 Yak-152, developed in the Yakovlev Design Bureau for the initial training of pilots."

        ... and, further on the SR-10 tests ... "specialization" on the Yak-130, which can already simulate the piloting of various aircraft from the light MiG-29 to the heavy Su-35S ... hi
      2. +1
        23 January 2018 19: 35
        152,130! I'm talking about the cars that make everyone in the aerobatics competition in light cars. Su? The long-forgotten beast.
    3. +3
      23 January 2018 19: 30
      winked An interesting comment by someone who was unable to fly on an advanced technique, but only on the Yak-52, I would like to ask, what is the advancement then, if the technique is not capable of flying in such weather and what is the backwardness of the Yak?
  4. 0
    23 January 2018 17: 39
    It is high time! And this rubbish Red A03 designed by Mr. Reikhlin and his friends from Audi - RETURN TO THE SENDER!
  5. +2
    23 January 2018 17: 39
    This is good news. I understand that the technology is patented?
    I will answer myself, I found domestic patents on this topic
    1. +8
      23 January 2018 17: 46
      No need. You cannot even reproduce the patented technology of plasma-electrolytic oxidation on the knee. Even in the USA. This is not a replica of the AK-47.
      1. +10
        23 January 2018 17: 58
        That's right. Mostly patented are designs and methods. But technology is much less common. In the patent, everything should be set forth in detail, it is clear to the specialist. And to track in this case a patent infringement is much more difficult than in the case of design theft.
        In the world there are few who want to put their know-how on sale. Better to trade in finished products.
    2. +2
      23 January 2018 17: 57
      In fact, the liners in piston engines have been made of aluminum with titanium nitride coatings for about 10 years. Rods are as old as powder, aluminum, steel alloys, titanium. Knee shafts I know for sure from titanium. I don’t understand what now. cimus news ????? a feeling that before that no one had thought of us before. wassat
      1. +14
        23 January 2018 18: 14
        Quote: Korax71
        In fact, the liners in piston engines are already 10 years old as they are made of aluminum with a coating of titanium nitride

        Never make aluminum sleeves laughing , and even more so do not cover with titanium nitride. The cylinder is completely cast, together with cooling fins, the place where the sleeve should be is either covered with a layer of chromium, or ion-plasma remelting is done in an atmosphere of special gases, obtaining a very hard surface.
        The only motor is a BMW, where sleeves of high-strength aluminum ALLOY are cast together with a magnesium alloy cylinder.
        The connecting rods are made of titanium, crankshafts - once, titanium has a vile characteristic of permanent deformation and extremely poor friction coefficients, it is necessary to constantly wrap it with antifriction materials.
        1. +1
          24 January 2018 12: 27
          I didn’t put it right. The walls of the monoblock are covered with a nikosiloy spraying. I’m not quite a chemist and technologist, I won’t tell you the formula. There’s the same technology, in my own words I’ll say that you don’t touch only ceramic spraying with a coating thickness of other 50 microns. And the crankshaft is again a little wrong put it, from titanium alloys, well, something like BT18 (y) .In principle, you can pick up the necessary characteristics. The only thing is that its resource will definitely be less than a knee made of cast iron or steel. Well, in addition to BMW, there is also an Audi, a Porsche, a jaguar. Suzuki makes some motorcycles. 15 strong boat Mercury. and the first block with aluminum sleeves was put by Americans in 1971 on the Chevrolet Vega. but this is not the most successful engine.
        2. +1
          24 January 2018 12: 29
          Lied a little feel titanium nitride as a coating of the walls of the monoblock cylinders while current experiments. There are no serial production so far.
      2. +1
        23 January 2018 18: 18
        There is such an alloy based on aluminum - silumin! So it is used for decades! And on the news, you read, something really revolutionary was created!
      3. 0
        23 January 2018 20: 58
        And in the Russian Federation began to do?
  6. +2
    23 January 2018 17: 44
    Weight "not less than 200 kg," or "not more than 200 kg"? recourse I would like more precise numbers, if possible! hi
    1. +7
      23 January 2018 17: 56
      Quote: Herkulesich
      Weight "not less than 200kg," or "not more than 200kg"? I would like more precise numbers, if possible!

      I have another question
      The use of aluminum instead of steel allowed reduce engine weight by 40 – 50% Compared to traditional engines of similar power. In running order he will weigh at least 200 kg, whereas the weight of the predecessor, the M-14P engine, is not less than 250kg.
      Do I have problems with math or the author? recourse
      1. +3
        23 January 2018 19: 38
        It is more powerful at 40 hp. Therefore, they compare it with a MORE powerful motor ...
      2. +1
        24 January 2018 15: 26
        Quote: Horst78
        M-14P

        Dry weight, kg: 252
        http://авиару.рф/aviamuseum/dvigateli-i-vooruzhen
        ie / aviamotorostroenie / aviamotory-sssr / porshnevye-
        i-dizelnye / porshnevoj-aviatsionnyj-dvigatel-m-14-
        ai-14-m-9 /
        1. 0
          24 January 2018 18: 38
          Quote: sogdy
          Dry weight, kg: 252

          Quote: sogdy
          Quote: Herkulesich
          Weight "not less than 200kg," or "not more than 200kg"? I would like more precise numbers, if possible!
          I have another question
          The use of aluminum instead of steel made it possible to reduce the engine weight by 40 – 50% compared to traditional engines of similar power. When equipped, it will weigh at least 200 kg, while the weight of its predecessor, the M-14P engine, will be at least 250kg.
          Do I have problems with math or the author?

          Quote: sogdy
          Quote: Herkulesich
          Weight "not less than 200kg," or "not more than 200kg"? I would like more precise numbers, if possible!
          I have another question
          The use of aluminum instead of steel made it possible to reduce the engine weight by 40 – 50% compared to traditional engines of similar power. When equipped, it will weigh at least 200 kg, while the weight of its predecessor, the M-14P engine, will be at least 250kg.
          Do I have problems with math or the author?

          Quote: sogdy
          Quote: Herkulesich
          Weight "not less than 200kg," or "not more than 200kg"? I would like more precise numbers, if possible!
          I have another question
          The use of aluminum instead of steel made it possible to reduce the engine weight by 40 – 50% compared to traditional engines of similar power. When equipped, it will weigh at least 200 kg, while the weight of its predecessor, the M-14P engine, will be at least 250kg.
          Do I have problems with math or the author?

          Not% but kg. then it converges hi laughing
          1. +1
            25 January 2018 07: 29
            Quote: Horst78
            Not% but kg. then it converges

            Do you know the difference between "equipped" and "dry"? Why are you clever ?!
            Follow the link, there are all the parameters - saving up to 130 kg of weight. (325-200)
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  8. +1
    23 January 2018 17: 47
    With light-engine aviation, it’s not autumn, if not better, but this dvigun draws prospects for development. Under this dvigun, they can design and create something new and necessary.
  9. +4
    23 January 2018 17: 50
    Aluminum shaft? Bearings, I hope not aluminum?
  10. +2
    23 January 2018 17: 57
    The engine will use regular AI-95 gasoline.
    I'm afraid gasoline will rise in price again amid such news laughing
  11. +3
    23 January 2018 17: 57
    Something with math as usual. Reduced weight by 50% from 250kg to 200 ...
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  12. 0
    23 January 2018 18: 22
    An aluminum engine is, of course, good, but the idea of ​​the internal combustion engine itself is somewhat ill-conceived. It is necessary to replace the thermodynamic cycle and the motion converter, then it is possible to significantly increase the specific power, and this is pampering.
    1. +3
      23 January 2018 18: 38
      Of course, the developers do not know anything about it.
      Expectedly spread all-trolls.
      1. 0
        23 January 2018 21: 24
        Quote: Mestny
        Of course, the developers do not know anything about it.

        They know, maybe they know, at least they think well, but to solve this problem, a different construction is needed, and mathematics alone is not enough for this. Already there are even single-cycle engines, so let them dig into patent databases.
    2. 0
      23 January 2018 18: 57
      It is better to refute Thomson's postulate, then thermodynamic cycles will not be needed.
  13. 0
    23 January 2018 18: 40
    Where did DOSAAF come from?
    1. +3
      23 January 2018 19: 02
      The time machine handicraftsmen gathered on his knee! lol According to the results of operation, an industrial design has been created! good Now restore the USSR! !!! drinks
    2. 0
      23 January 2018 20: 40
      Quote: zenion
      Where did DOSAAF come from?

      They restore everything quietly ... by the way, they also fly and parachute jump
  14. 0
    23 January 2018 18: 51
    While the breakthrough is not particularly clear. An aluminum engine stands on Solyanka and gives 200 thousand kilometers and scrap. There are no shells, the walls are thin, they can’t be bored. Can’t this be a similar situation?
    1. +2
      23 January 2018 20: 08
      What is Solyanka?
  15. +3
    23 January 2018 19: 15

    In 1979, American Matti Holzberg founded the company Polimotor, whose main task was to create an engine with as many plastic parts as possible.
    The first polymer engine was a copy of the Ford Pinto 2,3-liter four-cylinder engine. It is he who is depicted on the cover of the journal "Popular Science" for 1982.
    The cylinder block, pistons, connecting rods, crankcase and most of the cylinder head were made of plastic. For the manufacture of the piston head and liners of the combustion chamber (liner), aluminum and steel were used. The crankshaft and valves are also made of metal. The engine power of plastic was brought to 300 liters. with., and the mass is reduced to 69 kg (the original engine gave 88 liters. from. with a mass of 188 kg).
    In the 1980s, cars with plastic motors took part in car racing, where they showed their reliability, but they could not interest large automakers, the cost of producing special composites that could withstand significant mechanical and thermal loads was too high at that time.
    Now similar work is being done by the NAS Fraunhofer group NAS.
    1. +1
      24 January 2018 04: 00
      And they did not try to experiment with a tree?
      1. +1
        24 January 2018 08: 18
        We tried with a tree! Garage52 on YouTube take a look. There, the engine was washed with dishwashing liquid, and the wheels were pumped with mounting foam ...
  16. +2
    23 January 2018 20: 06
    How could this happen ?!
  17. 0
    23 January 2018 20: 08
    Well done students! And our "deserved" designer from the UEC will still not bring the PD-14 to mind!
    1. +2
      23 January 2018 23: 03
      Quote: senima56
      Well done students! And our "deserved" designer .....

      Do you think that if students are at the institute? smile
  18. +4
    23 January 2018 20: 09
    Glad for fellow countrymen! Well done!
  19. +5
    23 January 2018 20: 33
    Quote: siberalt
    Yeah. The predecessor weighed 250 kg, and aluminum - 200, which is 40-50% lighter. belay

    Those were iron pounds, and these are aluminum!
  20. 0
    23 January 2018 21: 27
    Great news. NSTU designed and manufactured ICEs, just great news.
  21. 0
    24 January 2018 02: 49
    reduced engine weight by 40–50% compared to traditional engines of similar power. When equipped, it will weigh at least 200 kg, while the weight of its predecessor, the M-14P engine, will be at least 250 kg. [Quote] [/ quote] Something bad with math ...
  22. 0
    24 January 2018 03: 57
    He will be placed in the museum and safely forgotten, that's all. You think optimists will launch mass production.
  23. 0
    24 January 2018 08: 22
    Experimental sample, I think! Aluminum alloy crankshaft won't work! Alternating loads are too large. Cranks too. The liners have long been made from silumin with a nickel coating.
  24. 0
    24 January 2018 09: 01
    I have seen so many times the news of domestic piston engines for ALS at exhibitions, that I have no doubt that there will be no competition in our market for Laicamings and Rotexes for a long time. And enthusiasts like flying on auto conversions of all sorts of Subaru will fly.
  25. 0
    24 January 2018 09: 56
    And what resource does such an engine have ?!
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  27. 0
    24 January 2018 16: 41
    Quote: dik-nsk
    NSTU is not an academic campus like BE))) this is the former NETI at the student

    Scientists managed to replace them with aluminum using a special technology of plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), created in Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS.
    The Institute of Inorganics is located on the Lavrentyev Avenue on the academic campus

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