Mitigating climate change by reducing particulate matter pollution from aircraft

加拿大的目标是成为可持续技术的领导者。在减少环境足迹方面，航空业已经落后于许多其他行业。商业航空占全球人为温室气体排放（GHG）的2-3%。此外，随着商业航空旅行以惊人的速度增长，航空对气候变化的影响也在迅速加剧。在过去的20年里，总客运量增长了两倍多，全球航空货运量在过去的15年里增长了约50%。商用航空是温室气体、烟尘和氮氧化物排放增长最快的来源。为了地球的健康，工程师和研究人员必须努力减轻这些影响。加拿大多伦多城市大学（TMU）和土耳其中东技术大学（METU）之间拟议的研究合作将探索燃气涡轮发动机的减排战略。在东大进行的几个详细的发动机污染物测量实验将产生实验数据，这些数据将用于验证东大开发的污染物模型。这项研究的结果将提高污染物模型的稳健性和技术成熟度，以便将其应用到发动机开发计划中。

Canada is aiming to be a leader in sustainable technologies. The aviation industry has fallen behind many other industries in terms of reducing its environmental footprint. Commercial aviation is responsible for 2-3% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Moreover, the contribution of aviation to climate change has been rapidly escalating as commercial air travel has been growing at an astounding rate. The total passenger traffic has more than tripled over the last 20 years and worldwide air cargo traffic has grown by about 50% in the last 15 years. Commercial aviation represents the fastest-growing source of GHG, soot, and NOX emissions. It is imperative for the health of our planet that engineers and researchers work to mitigate these effects.The proposed research collaboration between Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in Canada and Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey will explore emissions reduction strategies in gas turbine engines. Several detailed experiments to measure engine pollutants performed at TMU will generate experimental data which will be used to validate pollutant models developed at METU. The findings of this research will increase the robustness and technological readiness of pollutant models so they can be implemented into engine development programs.