The second workshop will be hosted by Airbus. Save the date in your calendar... more
Special Issue on "Combustion Dynamics and Heat Transfer for Alternative Fuels in Gas Turbines," which will be published in the journal "Advances in Mechanical Engineering" in May 2010. more
The 1st Internal Workshop and the 1st Alfa-Bird General Assembly took place in Stuttgart from 7-8 July, 2009. more
The Aerofuel Symposium at the Baltimore Convention Center, MD, USA is running in conjunction with the Aero & Defense Test Exhibition. more
Theme of the IASH 2009 Conference is Challenges for the Use of New Fuels for the 21st Century
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Welcome to ALFA-BIRD project
PROJECT SUMMARY
ALFA-BIRD aims at developing the use of alternative fuels in aeronautics. In a context where the price of oil is increasing and with impact of fossil fuels on climate change, the sustainable growth of the civil aviation is conditioned by the respect of the environment.
In this context using biofuels and alternative fuels in aeronautics is a great challenge, since the operational constrains (e.g. flight in very cold conditions) are very strict, and due to the long lifetime of current civil aircraft (almost 50 years). To address this challenge, ALFA-BIRD gathers a multi-disciplinary consortium with key industrial partners from aeronautics (engine manufacturer, aircraft manufacturer) and fuel industy, and research organization covering a large spectrum of expertise in fields of biochemistry, combustion as well as industrial safety.Bringing together their knowledge, the consortium will develop the whole chain for clean alternative fuels for aviation. The most promising solutions will be examined during the project, from classical ones (plant oils, synthetic fuels) to the most innovative, such as new organic molecules. Based on a first selection of the most relevant alternative fuels, a detailed analysis of up to 5 new fuels will be performed with tests in realistic conditions.
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R&D initiatives and networks
The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) - goal is to promote the development of alternative fuel options that offer equivalent levels of safety and compare favorably with petroleum based jet fuel on cost and environmental bases, with the specific goal of enhancing security of energy supply www.caafi.org
The Network of Excellence ECATS is an expert group contributing to
environmentally compatible air transport. With initial funding from the
European Commission ECATS' scope is to contribute to the environmental
goals of the Vision 2020 for Aeronautics and the Strategic Research
Agenda (SRA) www.ecats-network.eu
Omega is a publicly funded partnership that offers impartial,
innovative and topical insights into the environmental effects of the
air transport industry and sustainability solutions www.omega.mmu.ac.uk
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