The 2nd Internal Workshop and the 2nd Alfa-Bird General Assembly took place in Toulouse on 6-8 July, 2010.

Around 40 participants have attended three days Workshop. On these three days partners have presented progress on their tasks and the main results.
Presentations from the Internal Workshop, Open workshop and General Assembly are available on the website. To download the presentations click here.

Alfa-Bird, through the Workpackage 1.2 (IFP, DLR, SHELL, SASOL), submitted an article to the IASH Newsletter (The International Association for Stability, Handling and Use of Liquid Fuels).

To download the final article, click here.

The 18th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition took place in Lyon (France) on 3-7 May.

During  this event, Marina Braun-Unkhoff (DLR) gave an overview on the possible use of alternative aviation fuels, and mentioned the work in Alfa-Bird. She concluded that for alternative jet fuels, algae, waste, and ligno-cellulosic biomass are the most important fuels to be researched at the moment.

You can read the full bulletin dated May 7, 2010 and find here the other daily bulletins.

To access at the presentations of the congress "World Biofuels Market 2010" took place in Amsterdam on 15-17 March, click here.

Alfa-Bird has reached an important milestone with the selection of 4 alternative fuels for the tests which will be performed during the second phase of the project.

To download the note justifying the choice of the 4 alternative fuels, click here.

Preliminary Agenda:

	July 6, 2010	July 7, 2010	July 8, 2010
Morning	Travel to Toulouse Optional SC meeting	Technical review meeting with Daniel Chiron (part 2) Discussion on the future needs / new ideas / preparation of the next call	Open Workshop with external participants: -      Overview of ALFA-BIRD (2-3 speakers from the consortium) -      SWAFEA (P. Novelli) -      CAAFI (R. Altman) -      DREAM (P. Baude) -      Institute of Aviation - PL -      Petrobras - BR
Afternoon	Technical review meeting with Daniel Chiron (part 1)	2nd General Assembly: -      Review of the progress and actions needed -      Amendments to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement -      Agreement on the communication related to the communication of the results	Visit of the A380 assembly line

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. You can find the Call for Papers for this Special Issue at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ame/si/cdht.html and the deadline for submission is November 1st, 2009.

The Info-Day on the 29th September will provide an overview of the 3rd FP7 AAT call for proposals planned to be launched on the 30th July 2009. Within the 3rd call budget of approx 100 million Euro (less than in 2007 and 2008) a more targeted approach is being taken.  It will focus on certain Level 1 Topics and some Coordination and Support Actions.  Full details will be in the Work Programme to be published in CORDIS at the end of July ( http://cordis.europa.eu/ )

For further information on the FP7 AAT 3rd call Info-Day and registration please visit this website  http://ec.europa.eu/research/tid

Due to space limitations, please note that there should be a maximum of two people per organisation and that places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Further information and registration is via the above web sites only.

Around 40 participants have attended two days Workshop. On these two days task leaders from the SP1 and SP2 have presented progress on their tasks and the main results.
Presentations from the Internal Workshop are available on the website. To download the presentations click here.
Also, under Gallery tab, some pictures from the Workshop are availible.

The Workshop was followed by 1st Alfa-Bird General Assembly. During the General Assembly project beneficiaries were discussing the possibilities for collaboration with other initiatives and provision of the fuel matricies for future tests
Minutes from the General Assembly will be availible on the website in due time.

The Aerofuel Symposium taking place on 29/30th September 2009 at the Baltimore Convention Center, MD, USA running in conjunction with the Aero & Defense Test Exhibition.

AeroFuel will address the status of the most prominent international alternative fuel projects including CAAFI - Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative, CALIN & Alfa-Bird -Alternative Fuels And Biofuels for Aircraft Development.
N.Jeuland (IFP) will present the Alfa-Bird project at this meeting.
Research results will highlight which of these fuels offer the greatest potential as a realistic alternative to current fossil fuels for the aviation industry – Bio-Aviation Fuels, Butanol, Methanol And Ethanol, Hydrogen, Coal-To-Liquids (CTL), Fischer-Tropsch Aviation Fuel, Gas-To-Liquids, Hydrogenation-Derived Renewable Aviation Fuel.

New innovative fuel cell technologies will also be featured, with results highlighted from laboratory research and, in some cases, actual flight operations.

The Symposium Draft Program is in development.
 
For more information about Aerofuel Symposium go to http://www.aerodefencetest.com/aerofuel

For more information about Aero & Defense Test Exhibition go to http://www.aerodefencetest.com/

At the IASH 2009 International Conference, a wide range of technologies relating to the stability and distribution of liquid fuels from the point of manufacture to end-use will be discussed.

Theme of the IASH 2009 Conference is Challenges for the Use of New Fuels for the 21st Century  and the following topics will be discussed:
 
•    Synthetic & Alternative Fuels
•    Fuel Filtration & Cleanliness
•    Challenges in Fuel Distribution & Storage
•    Biofuels
•    Middle Distillate Fuels and Heavy Oils  
•    Additives & Additive Related Properties
•    Analytical Methodology
•    Microbiological Contamination
•    Aviation Fuel
 

REGISTRATION & PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ARE AVAILABLE AT www.IASH.net



Additional information about this event you can download here.

Nicolas Jeuland (IFP) and Olivier Salvi (EU-VRi/INERIS) presented the project ALFA-BIRD during the summit.
Conclusions of the summit are available at : http://www.enviro.aero/blog/index-summit.html

The report from the ALFA-BIRD partners will be posted in the event page in the Member Area.

 

1st Advisory Group Meeting took a place in Stuttgart, in Steinbeis Stiftung Officies, on 13th January, 2009.

Members of the Advisory Group who attended the meeting were:

Airbus UK : Lonnie Richards, UK

AVIO : Fabio Turrini, IT

Dassault Aviation: Gilles Zalamansky, FR

MTU : Stefan Hohmann, DE

Rolls-Royce : Chris Lewis, UK

IATA : Thomas Roetger, CH

Volkswagen: Eckart Heinl, DE

Also, the Members of the Steering Committee attended the meeting :

Airbus France, FR: Philippe Costes (member)

DLR, DE : Marina Braun-Unkhoff (member), Patrick Le Clercq (deputy)

ONERA, FR : Pierre Berthomieu (member), Olivier Rouzaud (deputy)

EU-VRi, DE : Olivier Salvi (member), Visnja Mihajlovic (deputy)

IFP, FR : Nicolas Jeuland (member), Laurie Starck (deputy

If you want to download the agenda of the meeting, please click here.

9th Steering Committee Meeting took a place in Stuttgart , in Hause der Wirtscaft, on January 12th.

Members of the Steering who attended the meeting were:

• Airbus France, FR: Philippe Costes (member)
  
• DLR, DE : Marina Braun-Unkhoff (member), Patrick Le Clercq (deputy)
  
• ONERA, FR : Pierre Berthomieu (member), Olivier Rouzaud (deputy)
  
• EU-VRi, DE : Olivier Salvi (member), Visnja Mihajlovic (deputy)
  
• IFP, FR : Nicolas Jeuland (member), Laurie Starck (deputy)

 

Agenda of the meeting is available here.

The leaflet and slides presents the main partners of the project, as well as the basic idea, objectives, structure and its planned achievements.

Both documents are in pdf format.

Leaflet 

Slides

Grant Agreement has been signed by the European Commission on 20 November 2008.

In order to finish the Grant  Agreement  process, and sign  the contract with European Comission, all beneficiaries of the project have to provide A forms for Accession to Grant Agreement.
EU-VRi as a coordinator signed the Grant Agreement with EC on the day of Kick-off meeting in Brussels.

All beneficiaries have to send 3 copies of A form until July, 22.
You can download the document on 
http://www.alfa-bird.eu-vri.eu/filedown.aspx?file=885

These copies have to be sent to the following address:

Mr. Olivier Salvi
EU-VRi
(C/O Steinbeis STW R-Tech)
Haus der Wirtshaft
Will- Bleicher Strasse 19
70174 Stuttgart
Germany

If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact us at alfabird@eu-vri.eu

ALFA-BIRD KICK-OFF MEETING, 7 July 2008 in Brussels

The Kick-Off Meeting of ALFA-BIRD project will take place on 7 July 2008 in Brussels.
It is organised by EU-VRi and hosted by DLR.

Venue:
DLR
Rue du Trone 98
B-1050 Brussels
Tel: 00.32.2.5000.841

Time:
Start: 10:30
End: 17:30

List of hotels and directions are available on the website (My documents), at the following links:
Hotels  (http://www.alfa-bird.eu-vri.eu/filedown.aspx?file=852)
Directions (http://www.alfa-bird.eu-vri.eu/filedown.aspx?file=851)

The detailed agenda is available here.
(or copy / paste to your browser http://www.alfa-bird.eu-vri.eu/filedown.aspx?file=881)

For the good organisation of the meeting and due to the capacity of the room (40 pers.), a maxmum of 2 persons by organisation will be authorised.

Registration to the event has to be made before July 3rd, 2008 using the website.
To register, click here.