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Títol: Evolution-estimation and tendency of the future power resources of aviation

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Director/a: ALTMEYER, SEBASTIÁN ANDREAS

Departament: FIS

Títol: Evolution-estimation and tendency of the future power resources of aviation

Data inici oferta: 14-01-2025     Data finalització oferta: 14-09-2025


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIS TELECOMUN
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
    GR ENG TELEMÀTICA
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Hybdrogen, High-Efficiency Batteries, Energy Recovery
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
Nowadays the global aviation has an important role when talking about contamination. Thus, it's intended to research for a new era of power supply by substituting the actual
fossil fuel by other emerging methods like electric or hydrogen powered aircrafts.
These new power resources would be feasible for regional flights and small aircrafts due to battery and volume of hydrogen space limitations in principle

This TFG devotes to study these two main power resources or even another that can be introduced or the combination of them are possible to substitute the actual fuel in order to reduce the fuel emissions regarding aviation, or even a combination with the fuel to reduce emissions in ground operations for example.

The current "state-of-the-art" situation in the aviation industry will be analyzed and based on recent developments in battery capacity and hydrogen propulsion estimated prediction will be made for the close to mid-term future.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This report primarily aims to estimate when and what type of resource is going to be the principal type of resource in charge of decarbonizing the aviation industry. Forced by the huge increase in operations experienced in the last 30 years, severely impacting the planet, making this situation unsustainable and prompting it to look for more renewable resources.


Based on analysis, studies, and estimations of several parts of the industry, like regulators, manufacturers, and airlines, a compilation of them shows a probable way of development for the industry to invest among others to create new types of energies to power the aircraft. The estimation also relies on the technological advancements made so far as well as the expected ones in the near future to be implemented in the industry, while also considering the economic viability of the transition.


The results show that a clearway wasn't defined for development a few years ago, looking for really radical changes in the industry like the implementation of electric and hydrogen-powered aircraft. Nevertheless, once the first tests were done using these resources, irrefutable and undeniable conclusions appeared, like the lack of technology available able to power commercial operations mainly because of range restrictions caused by the weight and occupancy of them inside the aircraft, limiting those solutions to very short-range flights, leaving them for further years like 2045 to be implemented. Once the industry realized that a small step was needed in the middle, collaboration from all parts, including support policies became essential for the implementation of SAF, taking advantage of the similarities to conventional fuels, making them a drop in solution for the reduction of emissions with the goal to be fully stabilized on operations by 2030, and 'only' needing to increase the rate of blending until arriving to a 100% and finding less harmful ways to produce them, making them the first-placed resource intended to reach the decarbonization goal in 2050.

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