Improving Emissions Modeling for Future Air Transport Systems

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• Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:30-14:00
• West 1, West Hub, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge.

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viation is presently responsible for 2-3% of global carbon emissions. The majority of these comes from long-distance routes, on which only liquid fuels are viable due to their high energy density. Therefore, more energy efficient aircraft powered by non-fossil fuels are currently under development.

In order to assess the economic, technical and environmental viability of these future aircraft-fuel-combinations, accurate life-cycle assessment models are required. Presently, such models poorly capture the underlying physics of aircraft. In order to accurately prediction future emissions, models must consider physical limits in both aircraft efficiency and fuel production pathways. Michael Weinold, a doctoral student at ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute is working on such models to improve the accuracy and precision of life-cycle assessment forecasts of future air transport systems. He will present recent progress in dis-aggregating aircraft energy efficiency, limits for future efficiency and hybrid approaches to life-cycle assessment of non-fossil fuels.

Timings 1:30 – 2:30pm Seminar 2:30 – 3:00pm Informal conversations

The Energy IRC is pleased to be jointly hosting this seminar with the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance in the Department of Land Economy.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Energy Seminars series.

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