Descrizione del progetto
Tecnologie innovative di propulsione e per aeromobili volte a migliorare la qualità dell’aria nei pressi degli aeroporti
L’aviazione contribuisce in modo significativo alle elevate emissioni di inquinanti e al rumore nelle vicinanze degli aeroporti locali. Per ovviare a questo problema è necessaria una nuova tabella di marcia per lo sviluppo di rivoluzionarie tecnologie e progettazioni delle operazioni. Ciò richiederà una combinazione di interventi sia sugli aeromobili che sull’aeroporto stesso. Il progetto INDIGO, finanziato dall’UE, aggregherà università, centri di ricerca e aeroporti nell’ottica di migliorare la qualità dell’aria a livello locale e ridurre il rumore grazie a un nuovo aereo non convenzionale a medio raggio. Ha una propulsione distribuita basata su un motore ibrido elettrico/sostenibile e a combustibile convenzionale e ali di ampie proporzioni che consentono un volo silenzioso con emissioni da zero a basse per le altitudini in prossimità degli aeroporti. Il combustibile convenzionale viene utilizzato solo quando necessario.
Obiettivo
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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