Sustainable Aviation for Reducing Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emission in Canadian Skies

加拿大政府制定了2050年净零排放的目标，但加拿大对交通选择的研究中没有电动航空(EA)选项，而它在气候条件与加拿大相似的欧洲国家引起了极大的兴趣。拟议的研究重点是对加拿大的EA系统进行大气监测/建模和社会经济分析，并使用电动飞机(e-飞机)和机场微电网提供可靠和经济的解决方案来减少相关排放。E飞机进入加拿大的关键市场是飞行学校(1400架飞机)，飞行员在那里接受小型双座飞机的培训，并将接触到这种未来的技术。第二个主要市场是区域旅行，小型飞机(10,000架飞机)在沿海和偏远社区的旅行持续时间不到三个小时。这包括许多依靠空运获得保健服务和高价值商品的土著社区，以及日益促进可持续旅游业和需要低碳交通工具的目的地。滑铁卢-惠灵顿飞行中心(WWFC)已经与滑铁卢大学合作，研究电子飞机用于飞行训练的潜力。联盟的这项提案将通过支持有关电动飞机电池在加拿大气候条件下运行的研究，以及对加拿大飞行中心电力分配系统的基础设施改革，来补充其他已授予的赠款，这些赠款已被用于购买一架将在世界自然资源中心使用的电动飞机。这项研究提案的总体目标是测试电子飞机的生存能力，包括分析加拿大环境条件下的电池系统性能，包括大范围的温度和延长的寒冷季节，并为机场微电网的优化设计提供建议，以保持电池的高健康状态，同时利用电子飞机进行飞行训练。在新技术的操作测试方面取得进展，使加拿大能够加入其他电子飞机技术的早期采用者的行列，并在未来的航空运输中保持优势。

The Government of Canada has a 2050 target of net-zero emissions, yet the electric aviation (EA) option is missing from Canadian studies of transportation choices, while it has attracted significant interest in European countries with climate conditions similar to that of Canada. The proposed research focuses on atmospheric monitoring/modeling and socio-economic analysis of the EA systems in Canada and provides reliable and economical solutions to reduce associated emissions, using electric planes (e-planes) and airport microgrids. The critical market for the entry of e-planes in Canada is flight schools (1400 aircrafts) where pilots are trained in small two-seat aircraft and will be exposed to this future technology. A second key market is regional travel where small planes (10,000 aircraft) make trips under three hours in duration, such as coastal and remote communities. This includes many Indigenous communities that rely on air access for health services and high value goods, and destinations that increasingly promote sustainable tourism and need a low carbon means of transport. Waterloo-Wellington Flight Center (WWFC) has already partnered with UWaterloo to study the potentials of e-planes for flight training. This Alliance proposal will complement the other awarded grants, which have been utilized to purchase an e-plane to be in WWFC, by supporting research on the operation of the e-plane battery in Canadian climate conditions and proposing infrastructural changes in the electric distribution systems of Canadian flight Centers. The over-arching goals of this research proposal are to test e-plane viability, including analysis of battery system performance under Canadian environmental conditions, including a wide range in temperatures and extended cold season, and provide recommendations for optimal design of airport microgrids to maintain high state-of-health for batteries, while utilizing the e-planes for flight training. Making advances in operational testing of the new technology allows Canada to join other early adopters of e-plane technology and keep an edge in the future of air transportation.