Airport surface congestion results in significant increases in taxi times, fuel burn and emissions at major airports. This paper describes the field tests of a congestion control strategy at Boston Logan International Airport. The approach determines a suggested rate to meter pushbacks from the gate, in order to prevent the airport surface from entering congested states and to reduce the time t...

London Heathrow is an extremely popular airport, where efficient take-off sequencing is important for ensuring a high runway throughput. Aircraft are usually released from the stands as soon as possible, providing the maximum pool of aircraft at the runway from which to choose from when sequencing. This paper considers the task of predicting the delay that aircraft will experience, so that some...

Temperature compensating materials were investigated for a resistive oxygen sensor using Ce(0.9)Zr(0.1)O(2) as a sensor material for lean-burn engines. The temperature dependence of a temperature compensating material should be the same as the sensor material; therefore, the Y concentration in CeO(2)-Y(2)O(3) was optimized. The resistance of Ce(0.5)Y(0.5)O(2-δ) was independent of the air-to-fue...

The emission control of NOx in exhaust gases is one of the greatest engineering challenges to extend the practical and commercial application of diesel and lean burn engines. One solution is selective NOx reduction using hydrocarbons in an oxidizing atmosphere. We mainly focused on catalytic reactions under temperature excursion because of the resemblance to conditions prevailing in real automo...

Abstract Combustion in aircraft engines results the formation of nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), among other species. NO impacts air quality is an indirect contributor to radiative forcing, while CO a long-lived greenhouse gas. The International Civil Aviation Organization sets limits on emissions from commercial aircraft, where for with rated thrust greater than 89 kN allow...

Since the introduction of large jet-powered transport aircraft, the majority of these vehicles have been designed by placing thrust-generating engines either under the wings or on the fuselage to minimize aerodynamic interactions on the vehicle operation. However, advances in computational and experimental tools along with new technologies in materials, structures, and aircraft controls, etc. a...

in this research the degree to which search abilities have been inserted into the search engines of persian and non-persian e-journals has been investigated. 97 persian e-journals (pej) and 30 non-persian, in this case english, e-journals (eej) represent the research population. the required data were gathered through designing a checklist, which was filled out for each pej and eej. the results...

The spark timing plays a significant role in the combustion process and in deciding the engine parameters of SI engine. This paper aims at demonstrating the effect of advanced and retarded spark timing on the burn fraction variation versus crank angle, cumulative heat release rate versus the crank angle and the pressure variation as a function of crank angle with the help of MATLAB programs. Fo...