Safran Aircraft Engines, a leading French engine manufacturer, is set to coordinate the demonstration of new Open Fan engine technologies in partnership with 26 industry European key players as part of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking project OFELIA. The consortium, which includes industry giants such as Airbus, Avio Aero, and GKN Aerospace, as well as research labs and academics from several countries across Europe, is set to receive €100 million in European funding from Clean Aviation.
OFELIA’s objective is to showcase the benefits of an open fan architecture in terms of efficiency to address the needs of future generations of Short & Medium Range (SMR) Aircraft by 2035, on the path towards the industry’s target of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Open Fan aims to save 20% of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions compared to today’s narrow-body engines.