Author(s)

SUDEEPA RYAL SHARMA, HAROLD BARBEY, REMI JULIO, KEVIN COCQ, JEREMY CURE, ARNAUD GLARIA, VALERIE LAVASTE

Abstract

The world has witnessed a significant growth in air traffic over the past 50 years. While this may be a good thing for a country’s economy, increase in pollution and rise in temperature, due to the growth of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are worrying factors. Thus the methods to track pollutants emitted by flights, in order to mitigate the pollution, have become of utmost importance. ACEMIS (AirCraft EMISsion), presented in this paper, is a tool developed for the calculation of emissions based on fuel consumption of flights. The input data is one of the most important factors to create a realistic simulation and this paper explains how several influencing factors and actual flight data are considered for computation. It also explains the computational methodology to calculate the fuel consumption of a flight and simulate realistic emissions of not only carbon dioxide CO₂ but other gaseous emissions such as nitric oxides/nitrogen dioxide NO_x, water H₂O, carbon monoxide CO, hydrocarbons HC, and sulfur dioxide SO₂. This novel tool enables the user to simulate chemical emissions of a flight or a fleet between two or more airports, then displays and analyzes the simulation results. Finally, this calculation method is encoded using Python programming language to create a graphical friendly user interface.

Keywords

environment, aircraft, aeronautics, Python, greenhouse gas emission, GHG, pollution, carbon dioxide