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TU Delft Impact Contest
Vertical Take-Off and Landing UAV
We are planning on making a VTOL aircraft that can carry a payload. What we currently have in mind is having a tilt rotor, which allows for vertical lift off and then a propeller plane-like efficiency (for example, V22 Osprey). But the problem with them is that they tend to be very unstable in the transition phase, with pilot-induced oscillations being a major issue. Also, there is an extra aerodynamic complexity with rotors affecting the flow over the wing. Having to carry an extra payload will imply strong rotors and, hence, more structural complexity.
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IonVe - Electrochemical Reactors
Electrochemical energy systems, especially redox-flow batteries for stationary energy storage and electrolyzers, face a scalability bottleneck driven by complex, costly, and poorly optimized reactor (stack) architectures. Despite major investment and advances in chemistry, many designs remain direct scale-ups of laboratory hardware, relying on graphite/metal parts and multi-component assemblies that constrain design freedom, increase cost, and hinder manufacturability and rapid iteration. As a result, performance and reliability fall short of their true potential, delaying industrial adoption and large-scale deployment of energy-storage and conversion technologies.
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SAFRON
We are addressing the problem of short-range strikedrones that have transformed the way modern wars are fought. These strikedrones cause roughly 80% of the casualties in the war in Ukraine.
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