Improving the calculation module for estimating pollutant emission from conventional and hybrid regional aircraft

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2024.302793

Keywords:

pollutant emission, flight trajectory simulation, hybrid power plant

Abstract

For the aviation sector, it is extremely important to devise revolutionary solutions in the field of technology to restrain the potential impact of civil aviation on the environment to the level of the established strategic goals of ACARE (FlightPath2050). The introduction of innovative technologies (improvement of the combustion chamber, the introduction of electric hybrid power plants on airplanes, and the use of alternative aviation fuel) will ensure the sustainable growth of air transportation.

To assess the effectiveness of advanced technologies, it is extremely important to have a model for calculating global/local emissions that takes into account the parameters of the flight path of conventional and hybrid aircraft, operational characteristics of the aircraft engine and hybrid powerplant, and the features of sustainable fuel.

The improved module for calculating emission indices by combining the module for calculating the parameters of the flight path and the results of calculating the thermogas-dynamic calculation of the aircraft engine makes it possible to detect the influence of fuel consumption (engine thrust) on the values of the emission indices. This feature is representative for evaluating the efficiency of hybrid powerplants because the electrification of the aircraft fleet is primarily aimed at reducing fuel consumption.

The analysis of simulation results reveals that the fuel consumption and EINOx are significantly reduced (for the climb stage – 25 %; for the descent stage – 30 %) for the hybrid AN26 compared to the conventional AN26. The specified operational measure, in the part of the low-pitch descend, significantly reduces EICO for the hybrid AN26 by an average of 50 % compared to the descend stage for the conventional trajectory.

The results of calculations for the entire flight path demonstrate that the use of a hybrid power plant for An26 contributes to an average reduction of fuel consumption by 10 %, NOx emissions by 25 %, water vapor emissions by 10 %, and CO2 by 10 %.

Author Biographies

Kateryna Synylo, National Aviation University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department Civil and Industrial Safety

Vitalii Makarenko, National Aviation University

PhD

Scientific Research Department

Andrii Krupko, National Aviation University

Postgraduate Student

Department Civil and Industrial Safety

Vadim Tokarev, National Aviation University

Doctor of Technical Sciences

Scientific Research Department

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Improving the calculation module for estimating pollutant emission from conventional and hybrid regional aircraft

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2024-04-30

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Synylo, K., Makarenko, V., Krupko, A., & Tokarev, V. (2024). Improving the calculation module for estimating pollutant emission from conventional and hybrid regional aircraft. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 2(10 (128), 34–44. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2024.302793