NASA Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC) Project Phase 1

The HyTEC Project is part of an overall subsonic transport technology strategy that focuses on the development and demonstration of high-power density, small core gas turbine engine technologies. HyTEC’s focus on these small core technologies will provide direct benefits to the next single-aisle class aircraft in terms of thermal efficiency, as well as integrate with other technologies, through increased hybridization, as they mature to provide substantial continuous fuel burn reductions during the aircraft lifecycle. HyTEC’s first phase will focus on the development of these individual technologies through subsystem or component tests. These efforts will accelerate and mature the needed technologies to Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) of 4-5. The second phase intends to integrate TRL 4-5 technologies into a full engine core to demonstrate a functional high power-density small core at TRL 6 no later than 2026. The project is part of the NASA Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP)