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Contrail Avoidance Project Summary
Technical Paper
2007-01-3808
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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As aviation is one of the fastest growing industrial sector world wide, air-traffic emissions are projected to increase their stake in the contribution to global warming. According to recent studies, both CO2 and contrails will be the principal air-traffic pollutants. Since the environmental impact of contrails is potentially larger, their avoidance is becoming discussed in the aeronautical community. Work on this topic has been carried out at Cranfield University in form of a PhD project. A project summary is given in this paper where contrail avoidance strategies and the different aspects of contrail avoidance are highlighted. The first section provides an overview on the formation principles of contrails based on a literature review. Different technologies are given in the second part, and their introduction is discussed in the last section.
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Noppel, F. and Singh, R., "Contrail Avoidance Project Summary," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-3808, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-3808.Also In
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