Aircraft Surface Management Service

飞机地面管理服务

• 批准号: 85134
• 金额: $ 11.92万
• 依托单位: INTERCEDE VENTURES 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=85134
• 关键词: Aircraft; Surface; Management; Service

As reported in the media, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on global transportation, with EU passenger numbers down by 90% in April to June 2020 compared with 2019 figures. This has meant many airlines are reporting large numbers of job losses and some airlines across the world collapsing. The means that cost saving is even more critical to airlines than previously and they are looking to reduce fuel consumption as a means of achieving this.A major producer of carbon emissions, and consequently a contributor to climate change, is global transportation. Encouraged by government legislation and customer pressure, the global aviation sector continues to seek methods to reduce the amount of carbon generated by the industry. Dirt deposits on aircraft exterior surfaces can reduce the ease with which an aircraft can fly through the air and, consequently, increase the amount of fuel the aircraft burns. This may only amount to a few percent, but across multiple aircraft over an extended period the increase in greenhouses gases emitted is significant and the additional costs for an airline can be extremely large.Working with the airline industry, Intercede Ventures Ltd (IVL), supported by a subcontractor, the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE), have invented a new system to help airlines to reduce expenditure associated with fuel consumption due to dirt deposits, and consequently, additionally, enhance an airlines 'eco-credentials'. IVL's Aircraft Surface Management (IASM) system provides a complete solution for airlines to facilitate management of the cleaning of their aircraft. It includes a novel analyser to measure dirt deposits on an aircraft's surface (for ease and safety the measurement is performed from the ground, shining optical beams at the surface to be measured), together with software to calculate a cost associated with the fuel consumption related to the measured dirt deposits, in order to determine if cleaning is required. It will also be validated to evidence the reduced carbon footprints for aircraft using the system, which represents vitally important data for airlines in relation new requirements which come in to force in 2020\.In this project, the surface analyser instrument will be developed and tested on aircraft structures. In addition, algorithms and associated software will be developed to analyse data from the new instrument to indicate when an aircraft should be cleaned. Finally, trials will be performed on working aircraft over a period of 2 months. The trial performed in this project will verify the ability of the IASM service to reduce fuel consumption relative to current standard industry approach, by tailoring cleaning for each aircraft within an airline's fleet.

据媒体报道，2019冠状病毒病对全球交通产生了巨大影响，2020年4月至6月，欧盟乘客人数与2019年相比下降了90%。这意味着许多航空公司正在报告大量裁员，世界各地的一些航空公司正在倒闭。节约成本对航空公司来说比以前更加重要，他们正在寻求减少燃油消耗作为实现这一目标的一种手段。全球交通运输是碳排放的主要来源，因此也是气候变化的一个因素。在政府立法和客户压力的鼓励下，全球航空业继续寻求减少该行业碳排放量的方法。飞机外表面的污垢沉积物会降低飞机在空中飞行的难度，从而增加飞机燃烧的燃料量。这可能只占百分之几，但在很长一段时间内，多架飞机排放的温室气体增加是显著的，航空公司的额外成本可能非常大。Intercede Ventures Ltd （IVL）与航空业合作，在分包商西英格兰布里斯托尔大学（UWE）的支持下，发明了一种新系统，帮助航空公司减少因污垢沉积而导致的燃料消耗相关支出，从而进一步提高航空公司的生态信誉。IVL的飞机表面管理（IASM）系统为航空公司提供了一个完整的解决方案，以方便管理其飞机的清洁。它包括一个新的分析仪，用于测量飞机表面的污垢沉积物（为了方便和安全，测量是从地面进行的，在被测量的表面上照射光束），以及计算与测量的污垢沉积物相关的燃料消耗相关的成本的软件，以确定是否需要清洁。它还将被验证，以证明使用该系统的飞机减少了碳足迹，这对于航空公司来说是与2020年生效的新要求相关的至关重要的数据。在本项目中，表面分析仪将在飞机结构上进行开发和测试。此外，将开发算法和相关软件来分析来自新仪器的数据，以指示何时应该清洁飞机。最后，将在工作飞机上进行为期2个月的试验。该项目的试验将通过为航空公司机队中的每架飞机量身定制清洁，验证IASM服务相对于当前标准行业方法降低燃油消耗的能力。