Descripción del proyecto
Tecnologías innovadoras de aviación y propulsión para mejorar la calidad del aire cerca de los aeropuertos
La aviación contribuye de forma significativa a las elevadas emisiones de contaminantes y al ruido en las inmediaciones de los aeropuertos locales. A fin de abordar esta cuestión, se necesita una nueva hoja de ruta para el desarrollo de tecnologías revolucionarias y conceptos de operaciones. Para ello será necesaria una combinación de intervenciones tanto en las aeronaves como en el propio aeropuerto. El equipo del proyecto INDIGO, financiado con fondos europeos, unirá al mundo académico, los centros de investigación y los aeropuertos con el fin de identificar los márgenes de mejora de la calidad del aire local y la reducción del ruido resultante de una nueva aeronave de medio alcance no convencional. Dispone de propulsión distribuida basada en un tren motriz de combustible híbrido eléctrico/sostenible y convencional y alas con un gran alargamiento que permiten un vuelo silencioso con emisiones bajas o nulas a bajas altitudes cerca de los aeropuertos. El combustible convencional solo se utiliza cuando es necesario.
Objetivo
Achieving the goals of climate neutrality by reducing the impact of aviation is a task that requires a carefully drafted roadmap for the development of disruptive technologies and concepts of operations. With particular attention to the emissions of pollutants and noise in airport local airport areas, a synergetic approach is needed that combines together interventions on the aircraft side and on the airport side. This calls for coordinated efforts in developing technologies that not only provide benefits during cruise conditions but also are capable of improving the local air quality and noise in airport areas where the impact of pollutants and annoyance to local communities has been demonstrated to be quite large in terms of morbidity and mortality. INDIGO is a collaborative project between academia, research centres and airports that aims at identifying the margins of improvement in airport local air quality and noise resulting from the introduction of a new non-conventional mid-range aircraft featuring distributed propulsion based on hybrid electric/sustainable and conventional fuel powertrain and large aspect-ratio wings capable to fly quietly and in zero-to-low-emission mode (i.e. electric and SAF) at low altitudes near airports and resort to conventional aviation fuel only when required, e.g. at higher altitudes or to recharge batteries during cruise. INDIGO will explore a new paradigm for the next-generation of silent and clean mid-range aircraft and for the way such a new aircraft will allow transforming the operations “at and near” airports. It will introduce improved methods for the analysis of future aviation environmental impact that, under the filter of uncertainty, will be able to account for non-conventional aircraft performance and future airport scenarios.
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- social sciencessociologydemographymortality
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringtransportation engineeringairport engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
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