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Projecte llegit

Títol: Anàlisi de l'eficiencia de vol i l'impacte medioambiental a partir de la modelització de la distància de vol

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: FORNÉS MARTÍNEZ, HECTOR

Departament: FIS

Títol: Anàlisi de l'eficiencia de vol i l'impacte medioambiental a partir de la modelització de la distància de vol

Data inici oferta: 20-07-2023     Data finalització oferta: 20-03-2024


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Flight, distance, efficiency, consumption, emissions, path
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
L'objectiu del projecte és implantar un model capaç d'analitzar
les eficiencies de vol i d'estudiar el consum de combustible i
les emisions a partir del càlcul de la distància real de vol. El
model preten utilitzar dades de vols de rutes europees i estudiar
la viabilitat de tècniques de vol modernes com el 'free flow" en
termes d'estalvi de combustible i reducció d'emisions.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
Most reports studying the environmental impact of aviation use the Great-Circle Distance (GCD) to calculate the fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of flights. However, these figures are often far from reality and should be corrected.
The main objective of this project is to study flight path, horizontal and vertical flight efficiency, consumption and emissions in order to assess the sustainability of the aviation sector. The samples analysed correspond to European short and medium-haul commercial flights operated from 2015 to 2021 with Barcelona as origin airport to a set of 32 destinations. The information has been provided by Eurocontrol and includes the actual data captured by the ADS-B systems and those from the last filed flight plan.
After collecting and processing the data using Matlab software, an analytical model has been created which estimates the flight distance based on the GCD and identifies the factors involved such as airport capacity, departure and approach procedures, sectorisation and assumable airspace traffic levels. In addition, the strategies used by the airlines to operate each of the selected routes have been analysed according to their operational policy.
Then, the flight distance and maximum flight level (FL) are compared with the GCD and the reference altitude values respectively to calculate the horizontal (HFE) and vertical (VFE) flight efficiencies.
Finally, a study of the fuel consumption and the corresponding gas emissions is developed to check the relationship with the flight efficiencies as well as the improvement offered by the solutions proposed by air traffic management (ATM).
Therefore, by knowing the GCD between selected city pair, the actual flight distance can be computed to estimate the results of fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, thanks to the data from the last filed flight plan, fuel savings and pollution reduction can be checked against the actual values provided by current ATM techniques.

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