Energy in Aviation

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Energy in Aviation

• View from an Aerospace company

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What do we include in aviation

• Civil commercial
• Passenger travel
• Freight
• Civil government agency
• Search and rescue
• Police
• Medical
• Military
• Training
• Refugee relief
• warfare

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Effects of aviation on society

• Good
• Air travel
• Business
• Holidays
• Freight movements
• Safety rescue
• Aerospace/aviation industry jobs exports wealth
  in economy

• Bad
• Green-house gas emissions
• Noise
• Land-use
• Crashes/danger

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Aircraft effects on the environment

• Aircraft fuel combustion gases
• CO2 NOX O3 hydrocarbons
• Contrails cirrus formation
• Aircraft noise
• Aircraft manufacturing processes
• Aircraft servicing processes

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Related impacts

• Land use for airports
• Ground transportation to airports eg car travel
• Freight transport to airports

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Industry/SBAC actions

• Impact of aviation is important
• Industry and SBAC seeking solutions
• Established working committees and action groups
• Reports programmes commitments for action and
  change

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Focus for this discussion

1. Energy use for flying aircraft
2. Land use for an airport

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Energy use for aircraft

• Greenhouse gas production from aircraft
• CO2 NOX O3 hydrocarbons
• About 36 million tonnes of CO2 are produced by
  aircraft in the skies over the UK
• This represents about 5 of the CO2 generated in
  the UK
• Growth rate of about 6 per annum

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Mechanisms for energy/CO2 reduction

• New engine technology
• Better aerodynamic design
• Larger aircraft
• better air traffic control
• Bio-fuels
• Carbon offsets
• Carbon trading
• Fuel tax

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Or.

• FLY LESS

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Progress on CO2 reduction

• 1960 1990 70 reduction in fuel per RTK
• 1990 2004 24 reduction in fuel RTK
• RTK revenue tonne kilometre

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ACARE emission targets

• 50 improvement in fuel efficiency per seat
  kilometre
• 80 reduction in NOX generated
• By 2020 on new aircraft of 2020 vs aircraft of
  2000

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Land use for Cambridge airport

• Cambridge Airport covers about 730 acres of land
  within the Cambridge City green-belt
• Has a 1965 metre Category 1 runway
• About 130 aircraft movements a day (on average)

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Change of zoning

• Cambridge Airport has been in the green-belt
  and therefore not eligible for housing
  development
• There has been a local campaign to stop flying
  from Cambridge Airport
• The UK government wants to see an increase in
  housing in the South East, eg Cambridge
• Current plans are to remove Cambridge Airport
  from the green-belt and re-zone it for housing

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Status

• These plans are under development and have not
  been confirmed
• Marshall Aerospace would move to another
  location possibly Alconbury, Wyton or Mildenhall
• Other locations are all pleased to have Marshall
  re-locate

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Environmental issues

• Marshall Aerospace has an environmental team to
  ensure compliance with all relevant legislation
• In addition, there is an Environmental Committee
  that aims to identify changes that will reduce
  environmental impact

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Summary aviation

• The aviation industry is a major contributor to
  the UK economy
• Air travel holidays business trips
• New aerospace products
• Businesses and jobs
• Wealth in the economy
• Air travel is here to stay we need
• New technologies to reduce impact
• A sustainable growth rate

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Summary Marshall

• Focus on higher value-add products and service
  lines
• Introduce energy saving and environmental savings
  wherever possible
• Work with aircraft manufacturers to make aircraft
  more environmentally sustainable