Synergies
UNIC - Understanding non-CO2 impact on aviation emissions
Aviation contributes about 2.5 % of global human-made CO2 emissions. However, its climate impact also includes non-CO2 effects such as contrails and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which are not yet fully understood. The EU-funded UNIC project aims to better understand the impact of non-CO2 aviation emissions from combustors and oil lubrication vents. Aligned with Horizon Europe, the project will enhance the measurement of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter across all flight phases and assess the effects of alternative fuels, such as sustainable aviation fuel and hydrogen, on these emissions. It will refine aerosol-cloud interaction models to inform future aviation policies and use advanced modelling techniques to simulate the interaction of emissions with clouds. (source: CORDIS)
Climavtech - Climate Friendly Aviation Technologies
ClimAvTech joins forces of fourteen EU-funded research initiatives to form the Climate Friendly Aviation Technologies (ClimAvTech) Cluster, a collaborative network focused on advancing climate-friendly aviation technologies.
Through this alliance, the participating projects will promote scientific collaboration, share knowledge, and implement coordinated dissemination activities. The aim is to enhance the visibility and accessibility of research outcomes, support innovation uptake, and contribute to the transformation of the aviation sector towards greater environmental performance.
PACIFIC - Particle emissions, Air Quality and Climate Impact related to Fuel Composition and Engine Cycle
PACIFIC seeks to bridge the gap in understanding aviation’s non-CO2 emissions by testing an unprecedented range of fuels under controlled conditions. The project will ensure consistency in combustion parameters and hardware similarity from lab-scale experiments at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to full aircraft engine tests at Airbus Toulouse.
BeCoM - Better Contrails Mitigation
BeCoM is a European research project that aims to better predict persistent contrails with the strong support of the enhanced routine humidity measurements at the cruise level, enabling reliable mitigation of aviation’s climate impact driven by climate-based policy and regulations. BeCoM will develop and assess measures to largely reduce (>50%) or eliminate the global mean contrail radiative forcing, hence a substantial re-duction of aviation’s share of global warming to be achievable on a short time horizon.
These measures include a reliable forecast of persistent contrails, reduced weather-dependent individual contrail radiative effects, and successful avoidance of strongly warming contrails via trajectory optimization.
