Green Aircraft Technology Imperatives for Environmental Sustainability

Commercial aviation is experiencing the fast growth exceeding automotive travel; the latter is well known for contributing to air pollution. Commercial aviation impacts climate by two main avenues: the emission of greenhouse gases and cloud effects. While the former impact is similar to other activi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inApplied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 815; pp. 273 - 281
Main Author Djojodihardjo, Harijono
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Zurich Trans Tech Publications Ltd 30.11.2015
Subjects
Aerodynamics
Air pollution
Aircraft
Aviation
Civil aviation
Climate change
Commercial aircraft
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Human influences
Sustainability
Trailing vortices
Contrails
Climate Change
Cirrus Cloud
Aircraft Trailing Vortices
Green Aircraft Technology
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Commercial aviation is experiencing the fast growth exceeding automotive travel; the latter is well known for contributing to air pollution. Commercial aviation impacts climate by two main avenues: the emission of greenhouse gases and cloud effects. While the former impact is similar to other activities that contribute to anthropogenic climate change, the latter is unique to aviation. Anthropogenic solutions that can be offered by Aerospace Technology to address anthropogenic environmental changes, known as green technology initiatives, may only provide partial or temporary solutions. In the efforts to intervene such process and thus maintaining the sustainability of the earth’s environment, some scientific and technological guidelines to comprehend the natural phenomena and global changes are reviewed and discussed. Selected efforts devoted to aircraft technology and aviation, for maintaining the sustainability of the earth’s environment are elaborated. Particular considerations are given to fuel burn affecting greenhouse gases and cloud effects due to trailing vortices and hence contrail.
Bibliography:Selected, peer reviewed papers from the Electronic and Green Materials International Conference (EGM 2015), the Engineering Technology International Conference (ET 2015), the Green Design and Manufacture International Conference (GDM 2015), July 31 - August 1, 2015, Surabaya, Indonesia
ISBN:303835676X
9783038356769
ISSN:1660-9336
1662-7482
1662-7482
DOI:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.815.273