SAMARA, September 21 A special software package developed by Samara scientists will help domestic aviation switch to environmentally friendly fuels, reports the press service of Samara University.
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“We take any aircraft existing on the domestic market and with the help of this program we look at how, when using a certain biofuel, its characteristics will change, for example, the speed and duration of the flight, the takeoff and landing cycle, and harmful emissions into the atmosphere. If you enter the necessary up-to-date data, the program will be able to show the economic feasibility of using biofuel on a given aircraft. Of course, now biofuel is still quite expensive, but every year its production is becoming cheaper, and the global trend is that environmentally friendly fuel in aviation will gradually replace traditional kerosene,” the press service quotes the director of the Engineering Center, Ivan Zubrilin.
< br />According to the scientist, in 2027, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), as part of the CORSIA program, will introduce a number of mandatory measures to stimulate the use of carbon-neutral fuels. Airlines will have to pay special compensation payments for flights without the use of environmentally friendly fuels. According to open sources, for Russian airlines the volume of these payments could amount to about 1.5-2 billion euros in 2027.
The development of the software package is carried out by scientists on the basis of the ASTRA automated system created earlier at the university, intended for the conceptual design of gas turbine engines.
«At the first stage of program development, fuels from bio-based materials are considered as promising components. We plan to complete the first stage of program development in 2024. In the future, it is planned to include synthetic fuels in the base of the program complex fuels from recycled materials, as well as aviation condensed fuel (ACF),” Zubrilin said.
According to the university, scientists work in close cooperation with other research organizations, such as Tomsk Polytechnic University, the laboratory of the Novokuibyshev Oil Refinery, the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering, Perm Polytechnic University.