Boulfani, Fériel, Gendre, Xavier, Ruiz-Gazen, Anne and Salvignol, Martina (2021) A statistical approach for sizing an aircraft electrical generator using extreme value theory. TSE Working Paper, n. 21-1274, Toulouse, France

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Abstract

The sizing of aircraft electrical generators mainly depends on the electrical loads installed in the aircraft. Currently, the generator capacity is estimated by summing the critical loads, but this method tends to overestimate the genera-tor capacity. A new method to challenge this approach is to use the electrical consumption recorded during flights and study the distribution of operational ratios between the actual consumption and the theoretical maximum consump-tion then size the future aircraft generators by applying a ratio to the theoretical value. This paper focuses on the application of extreme value theory on these operational ratios to estimate the maximal capacity utilization of a generator. A real data example is provided to illustrate the approach and estimate extreme quantiles and the right endpoint of the distribution of the ratios together with their approximate confidence interval in the nominal configuration. In all situ-ations the right endpoint is proven to be finite and does not depend on the use procedures. This approach shows that ELA overestimates the maximal perma-nent consumption by 20% with error level of 10−3 in the nominal configuration.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: December 2021
Place of Publication: Toulouse, France
Uncontrolled Keywords: Electrical load analysis, Aeronautic electrical system, Generalized Pareto distribution, Quantile estimation, Endpoint estimation, Diagnostics for threshold selection
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 14 Dec 2021 11:36
Last Modified: 14 Dec 2021 11:36
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:126233
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/44034
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