Oxsensis Limited

With the civil aviation sector continuing to grow year-on-year, an ever increasing number of routine in-situ gas turbine inspections are undertaken by both gas turbine providers and their customers. Whilst these are critical for ensuring a high-level of aeroengine safety, they are time intensive, vary between inspectors, and offer limited data capture and...

Future civil aerospace technology advancement and improvement is going to be increasingly based on the use of real-time aircraft and engine data to predict performance, adapt control and manage maintenance. E2EEHM (End-to-End Equipment Health Management) is a four year project that will develop and link together future Equipment Health Management (EHM) te...

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Optical instrumentation technology is now maturing and is being adopted in turbomachinery, aerospace, and Oil and Gas sectors. Optical temperature sensing at discrete locations , 'point sensing' is relatively early in exploitation, and so far it is restricted to niche applications. Oxsensis is involved in aircraft brake temperature temperature sensing tec...

MORPHEUS will develop novel optical sensors for aircraft fuel system monitoring and control. The consortium will seek to leverage current trends in aircraft system architectures towards optical technologies and the clear advantages they bring in developing replacements for electrical sensors for use in explosive environments. With increasing use of compos...

AUSTIN will address the need for an Aerospace 'Universal Interrogator' to permit the interfacing of different types of Photonic Sensors within a common Avionics box. This will provide the central element in any optically instrumented Aircraft. It will take known techniques, e.g. the Fibre Bragg Gratings and Fabry Perot, which are yet to be implemented in ...

Oxsensis has developed high temperature optical pressure sensors using single crystal sapphire. ASREEPS aims to expand the operating envelope of optical sensors by identifying a volume manufacturing process in a low cost ceramic as a replacement for sapphire. A successful completion of ASREEPS will allow for use of low cost ceramic as the build material f...

MOFSA will produce a concept demonstrator of a multi-function optical sensor capable of simultaneous measurements of pressure, temperature, liquid level and refractive index for aviation fuel measurement. The arrival of composite wings makes it desirable to remove electrical sensors from aircraft wing fuel tanks due to the increased costs of providing pro...

SOHAPS aims to deliver a high accuracy multi-parameter optical sensor for measurement of pressure and temperature within aircraft fuel systems. Optical based sensors are expected to enable the design of a next generation aircraft fuel gauging system. Specifically, the inherent EMI immunity of optical sensors is advantageous, considering the industry’s mov...

There is a need in the Oil & Gas industry for a reliable method for accurate measurement of pressure and temperature (P&T) down the length of an oil well. The device must be robust enough to withstand the harsh environment with low drift over time. The consortium will develop a sensor head and optical interrogator suitable for downhole measurement of P&T....

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FRETSGATE will develop a novel optical temperature and pressure sensor with the potential to reduce CO2 emissions from UK power generation by >1 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) through efficiency gains. Gas Turbines (GTs) for power generation produce >40% of UK electricity and 81mtpa of CO2. Combustion control is key to radically improving GT efficiency a...