A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Updates to SAE E31 in Winterthur – 27.06.2022 ZAV successfully hosted this year’s SAE E31 committee’s summer meeting from June 20 – 24 in Winterthur, Switzerland. This meeting was the first one taking place in person since January 2020. As usual, the meeting primarily focused on discussing the progress and plans for various standardized methods […]
“Achieving sustainability in commercial aviation is difficult, but not impossible. Naturally, engineers try not to create new problems, yet it is important for them to be aware about all factors and influences and not just to focus on solving one issue.” – By D. Romang and C. Waltenspül. As part of their project in AV.PM4, […]
By: Saskia Drossart van Dusseldorp (Saskia.drossaartvandusseldorp@zhaw.ch) Driven by our intrinsic motivation to carry our passion into the world, we are always eager to explore new ways of reaching out. By using a multitude of channels and platforms, we manage to address a diverse audience – at least in theory. In practice however, our audience tends […]
Written by: Thomas Rötger Every three years in February, the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) holds the plenary meeting of its Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP). Normally, this meeting gathers about 200 aviation experts representing the States and international organisations at the ICAO Headquarters for two weeks in snowy Montréal. Not surprisingly, the […]
Schlagwörter: fun
Right after Christmas 2018, our group was approached by a foreign aircraft engine manufacturer who requested us to perform various nvPM measurements in 2019. For 2019, our group originally planned to run engine emissions tests at our home base at SR Technics at Zurich airport, but due to their demanding test cell overhaul, we could […]
TOOLS: Emission/immission Meteorology Computing Emissions and air quality measurements SMARTEMIS The Swiss Mobile Aircraft Emissions Measurement System (SMARTEMIS) is a state-of-the-art sampling and measurement system for gaseous pollutants and particulate matter in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards and recommended practices. It is one of three reference measurement systems worldwide for non-volatile […]
AGEAIR RAPTOR ACACIA AGEAIR II (Emissions of AGEing AIRcraft engines, part II) Objectives: Expanding competence in emissions measurements on various engine types Continued investigation of emission characteristics (non-volatile particles and gaseous pollutants) of large aircraft turbofan engines and the effect of engine age on their emissions Research & development for the improvements of the ICAO […]
Urban climate Urban air quality Urban Climate Urban climate simulation of “Zurich West” Urban heat network Back up Urban air quality SLED: Spatio-temporal LDSA model development CLEANAIR COVIDAIR Back up Schlagwörter: climate modelling, emission downscaling, emission inventory, emission modelling, immision downscaling, immision measurement
