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AEROSPACE
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/aerospace8110331
Keywords
supersonic aviation; pollutant and GHG emissions; sustainable aviation fuels; revised fuel flow method
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This paper presents a new algorithm for estimating the environmental impact and fuel flow of future supersonic aircraft, with a focus on biofuels and blends. The algorithm has been validated and includes corrective factors for the latest developed biofuels.
This paper discloses a new algorithm, called sustainable supersonic fuel flow method, to complement the conceptual design of future supersonic aircraft with pollutant and greenhouse gases emissions estimation. Starting from already existing algorithms currently used to assess the environmental impact of already developed and operating aircraft, the authors suggest revisions to improve the formulations, thus extending their application. Specifically, this paper has two objectives: to support the design of future supersonic aircraft and to evaluate the impact of the exploitation of more sustainable aviation fuels, with special focus on biofuels and biofuel blends, since the conceptual design stage. The core of the algorithm developed to predict in-flight emissions of a supersonic aircraft has been validated with public data of Concorde flight experiments. In addition, corrective factors accounting for the most recently developed and certified biofuels have been included in the formulation.
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