AirOpt - optimisation of airspace to save 2MT CO2 a year

AirOpt - 优化空域每年减少 2 公吨二氧化碳

• 批准号: 77982
• 金额: $ 28.29万
• 依托单位: AIRSPACE UNLIMITED SCOTLAND LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=77982
• 关键词: AirOpt; optimisation; airspace; save; 2MT

Airspace Unlimited has been established to innovate in how airspace is shared between military and civil users. Increasingly this is managed through a concept of the 'flexible use of airspace'. The more flexibility that can be achieved, the more we can reduce fuel burn and greenhouse gas emissions.Our aim is to reduce aviation greenhouse gas emissions through a daily 'big data' optimisation of multiple flight trajectories and multiple military airspace reservations. This will enable airlines to optimise their routes on a daily basis, potentially saving 2Mt of CO2 a year in Europe. We have already developed a tool to do this, 'AirOpt', which was funded by a DfT T-TRIG grant, and have been working with the University of Stirling to improve the computational efficiency.Throughout most of the world airspace is shared between civil and military users. Airlines fly between airports typically several hundred miles apart, whereas the military conduct training exercises in predominantly fixed airspace volumes that are close to military airfields. For civil users, the military airspace is something that must be avoided, for obvious safety reasons.In recent years, civil and military authorities have increasingly worked together to optimise the use of the airspace, under the principles of the 'Flexible Use of Airspace' (FUA), which is defined as strategic, pre-tactical and tactical. Tactical denotes the day of operation, pre-tactical up to three days before while strategic is anything more than that. Military airspace use is generally determined at the pre-tactical level so that airlines can subsequently flight-plan with knowledge of what airspace is available. The processes that support this system are currently being modernised, with the adoption of digital tools and electronic communication. This modernisation presents an opportunity to introduce data analytics and gain small but significant improvements in fuel consumption.Eurocontrol (Sep 2019) estimates that air traffic management can influence ~6% of aviation emissions in Europe and improvements are underway: 'Free route airspace', which has saved 2.6Mt CO2 over 5 years (2014-19); and 'Continuous climb and descent' operations, estimated to save 1.1Mt CO2 per year. Conservatively, our concept has the prospect to reduce aviation fuel burn by 1%, equivalent to 2Mt CO2 per year across Europe.Not only do these gains add value in their own right, they act as multipliers for decarbonisation. This is because operational improvements are very low cost compared to the costs of carbon capture (~€24 per tCO2) and Synthetic Aviation Fuels (~€120 per tCO2). Sustainable aviation fuels will not solve the problem before 2050, therefore near term operational improvements are essential over the next 30-50 years.In 2019 we commercialised the work and vested our IP in 'Airspace Unlimited Scotland' Ltd. With this 'static' model we are now embedded in two projects in the Middle East and have three commercial proposals in our pipeline. We have been operating in stealth mode since our developments began in 2018 under a DFT T-TRIG project. We are about to submit a patent application.

已经建立了空域无限的，以使军事用户和民用使用者之间如何共享领空。越来越多地通过“灵活使用空域”的概念来管理。可以实现的灵活性越多，我们就越能减少燃油燃烧和温室气体的排放。我们的目的是通过每天对多个飞行轨迹和多个军事领空预订的“大数据”优化减少航空温室气体排放。这将使航空公司每天都能优化其路线，从而有可能在欧洲节省每年2mt的二氧化碳。我们已经开发了一种工具来做到这一点，即由DFT T-Trig赠款资助的“ Airopt”，并一直在与Stirling大学合作以提高计算效率。在世界大部分领空中，公民用户和军事用户之间的大部分空间都共享。航空公司在机场之间飞行，通常相距几百英里，而军事行为训练练习则以固定的空域数量靠近军事机场。对于民用使用者而言，出于明显的安全原因，必须避免军事领空。在近年来，根据“灵活地使用空域”（FUA）的原则，民事和军事当局已经增加了共同努力，以优化空域的使用，这被定义为战略性，预性和战术。战术代表运作的日子，在三天前长达三天之前，战略不仅仅是这样。军事领域的使用通常在当时的级别上确定，因此航空公司随后可以使用什么空域可用的飞行计划。通过采用数字工具和电子通信，目前支持该系统的过程正在现代化。这种现代化为引入数据分析并获得了少量但显着改善的机会。欧洲控制（2019年9月）估计，空中交通管理可能会影响欧洲的约6％的航空排放量，并且正在进行改进：“自由航线航空空间”，在5年内节省了2.6mt CO2（2014-19）（2014-19）；和“连续攀登和下降”操作，估计每年节省1.1mt CO2。保守地，我们的概念有望将航空燃料燃烧减少1％，相当于欧洲每年2MT CO2。这些收益不仅会自行增加价值，还可以充当脱碳的乘数。这是因为与碳捕获的成本相比，运营改善的成本非常低（每TCO2约24欧元）和合成航空燃料（每TCO2约120欧元）。可持续的航空燃料不会在2050年之前解决该问题，因此在接下来的30 - 50年中，近期的运营改进至关重要。在2019年，我们将其商业化并归属于“空域无限苏格兰无限苏格兰有限公司”中的IP。使用这种“静态”模型，我们现在在中东地区的两个项目中嵌入了三个商业建议中，并在我们的管道中嵌入了三个商业建议。自2018年DFT T-Trig项目的发展以来，我们一直处于隐形模式。我们即将提交专利申请。