Green Aviation -

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Résumé :
This book comprehensively covers the relevant issues in green aviation. Environmental impacts, technology advances, public policy and economics are intricately linked to the pace of development that will be realized in the coming decades. Experts from NASA, industry and academia?review current technology development in green aviation that w...

Biographie:

Emily S. Nelson is a research engineer at the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) specializing in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of fluid mechanics and heat transport, materials science, biology and/or human physiology. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (1983)...

Sommaire:

Part I. Environmental Impacts of Aviation
1. Noise Emissions from Commercial Aircraft
2. Aircraft Emissions: Gaseous and Particulate
3. Impact of Fuel Burn on Greenhouse Gases

Part II. Technologies To Mitigate Environmental Impacts
4. Noise Mitigation Strategies
5: Lightweight Materials for Airframe and Propulsion Systems
6: Clean Combustion and Emission Control
7: Air Space Systems Technologies

Part III - Alternative Fuels
8: Introduction to Alternative Fuels
9: Fuel Life Cycle Analysis and Carbon Footprint
10: Current Biomass Options for Alternative Fuels
11: Near-Term Alternative Fuels
12: Future Biofuels
13: Biomass Refining for Manufacture of Aviation Fuel
14: Certification of Biofuels

Part IV - Societal Impacts of Green Aviation
15: The Role of Public Policy in the Development of Green Aviation
16: Economics of Alternative Fuels
17: Perspectives on the Future of Green Aviation