Ice accretion on the inner surface of a fuel tube can fall off and potentially block filters small orifices, which thereby restricts flow to engines during long flying aircraft in cold conditions. This might cause shut down pose catastrophic safety threat. In this pursuit, present study evaluates effects temperature, entrained water concentration, duration ice flowing super-saturated RP-3 aviat...

Trajectory optimisation has shown good potential to reduce environmental impact in aviation. However, a recurring problem is the loss in airspace capacity that fuel optimal procedures pose, usually overcome with speed, altitude or heading advisories that lead to more costly trajectories. This paper aims at the quantification in terms of fuel and time consumption of implementing suboptimal traje...

The global aviation industry is facing complex and unpredictable market conditions with fluctuating oil prices and the adverse environmental impact of aircraft operations. Since the regulatory approval for biofuels, the first biojet fuel flight test in 2007, using a blend fuel, was a remarkable step towards having more test and schedule flights up to the year of 2014. The purpose of this paper ...

During the last few years, the fast and accurate exchange of information between players in various domains has become increasingly critical. This is especially true in transportation, where the rapid and correct decisions based on high-quality timely data would have not only financial implications (e.g. saving cost of fuel) but it could primarily relate to the safety of people. Messages are na...

Objective This paper presents a review, classification schemes, critique, a simple meta-analysis and future research implication of fuel consumption optimization (FCO) literature in the air transport sector. This review is based on 277 articles published in various publication outlets between 1973 and 2014. Methodology A review of 277 articles related to the FCO in air transport was carried out...

The aviation sector is one the modern innovations in recent times. According to the Federal Aviation Authority (2005, p. 1) in 1903 the world population was estimated to be 1.6 billion, while presently the same number of people use aviation industry as mode of travel. The industry also provides around 28 million jobs and carries 40% of world carriage. But with growing concerns on environmental ...