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TRACECA ETS Seminar
ENVISA organised the Aviation ETS and Climate Change Policy Seminar for TRACECA project on December 14-15 in Istanbul. Read more...
Clean Sky SGO ITD
ENVISA is on track to take part to joint research projects for the Clean Sky SGO (Systems for Green Operations) ITD starting early 2010. More details soon...
EUROCONTROL's INVENTAIR
ENVISA was mandated by EUROCONTROL to create a website dedicated to global aircraft emissions. The site will allow registered users to download and visualise worldwide emission grids based on WISDOM flight movement database.
Airport Local Air Quality Studies - ALAQS
Dates: 2004 - 2007
Partners: EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre, M&P Consulting, Janicke Consulting, Brunel University, Technische Universität München, Bucharest Henri Coanda Airport, Lyon Saint Exupery Airport, Warsaw F. Chopin Airport, Zurich Airport (UNIQUE)
Links: ALAQS EUROCONTROL website, ALAQS-AV Model Description
The objectives of the ALAQS consortium were to promote best-practices to estimate airport related emissions and concentrations. The ALAQS project involved developing the ALAQS-AV tool, an aircraft movement driven air quality model for airports considering all the types of emissions sources: runways, taxiways, roadways, gate equipment, stationary sources, etc.
ENVISA’s main tasks were to:
- develop and test ALAQS-AV
- integrate the outputs of emission inventories into various dispersion models (Gaussian, Lagrangian)
- provide training and support to users
- assemble emission inventories at airports
- run emission and concentration studies (including sensitivity tests)
- present the project's results at various conferences worldwide.