Descripción del proyecto
Hacia unos vuelos más ecológicos
Las emisiones de gases de escape y vapor de agua que crean estelas son los principales contribuidores del calentamiento global. Por lo tanto, es fundamental reducir las emisiones de la aviación, pero de una forma que preserve la movilidad. Los cambios en el diseño de las trayectorias de los vuelos y las operaciones de control del tráfico aéreo son una forma adecuada de reducir las emisiones a corto y medio plazo. Con esto en mente, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos GREAT tiene como objetivo disminuir el consumo de combustible y las emisiones de gases durante las fases de vuelo de puerta a puerta, lo que logrará desarrollando y evaluando un concepto operativo de gestión del tráfico aéreo ecológico, además de diseños aeroespaciales adaptados y tecnologías de optimización de trayectorias ecológicas, así como respaldando sistemas de aviónica. El proyecto demostrará que la aviación podría reducir de forma significativa su impacto sobre el cambio climático siguiendo este enfoque.
Objetivo
The perception of environmental problems especially global warming is more than ever an issue, especially in this day and age when reaching agreements on today's climate targets is a challenge and a topic of concern among European citizens of all ages. Associated effects of global warming, like extreme weather events, are driven primarily by the emission of exhaust gases (especially CO2, nitrogen oxides and methane) and water vapour creating contrails. Hence, reducing emissions to preserve the environment, while keeping the mobility is a central society need now and in the future. To reduce the emissions in short and medium term, changes in flight trajectory design and ATC operations are an appropriate means. Thereby, the flight trajectories are influenced on one hand by environmental and aircraft parameters, and on the other by ATC driven parameters, like route length or usable altitudes. During flight execution, re-planning on board of an aircraft using the flight management system enables to consider dynamic effects on the tactical level, like changes in the weather situation. For the efficiency of such a greener trajectory, it is necessary that the trajectory can be flown in the planned way, even under the actual traffic situation controlled by ATC, which today is often not the case. The overall objective of the cooperation of Chinese and European partners in GreAT is to reduce the fuel consumption and gas emissions during “gate-to-gate” flight phases through developing and assessing environment-friendly air traffic operational concept, adaptive airspace and green trajectory optimization technologies, and supporting avionic systems. Evaluation campaigns between the European partners and in combination with the Chinese partners through cross evaluations are planned to validate the proposed concept and show a potential significant reduction of the aviation’s impact on climate change.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social sciencessocial geographytransporttransport planningair traffic management
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-MG-2019-SingleStage-INEA
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
51147 Koln
Alemania