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New method to compute the missed approach fuel consumption and its emissions

Part of: Sustainable Aerospace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

A. Murrieta-Mendoza  and
R. M. Botez
A. Murrieta-Mendoza
Affiliation:
Université du Québec – École de Technologie Supérieure – LARCASE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
R. M. Botez*
Affiliation:
Université du Québec – École de Technologie Supérieure – LARCASE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*
Ruxandra.Botez@etsmtl.ca
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Abstract

The aeronautical industry has set for itself important environmental goals, creating the need of improved tools for measuring the polluting emissions generated by fuel burn. This paper describes a new method to estimate the fuel burn and the pollution generated by a landing approach and also for a missed approach procedure. Fuel emission estimations can be used to compare the costs of different routes. The method developed in this paper uses the Emissions Guide Book developed by the European Environment Agency as the needed database for the computations. This method gives estimations of the fuel burn and emissions, including the amounts of CO, NOx, HC, EICO, EINOx and EIHC for a given flight as its output. The flight computation is divided into two sections: one section for the aircraft's travelled distance and a second section for the time an aircraft flies under certain flight modes. Since this method computes the missed approach fuel and emissions contribution, it computes the burn for a given descent approach for a successful landing, as well as for the same descent approach with a missed approach procedure followed by a successful landing. These two landings are verified in a complete flight to study the missed approach contribution for a conventional mid-range flight. The results show that a descent with the missed approach procedure requires 5.7 times more fuel than a normal, successful descent. This extra fuel burn increases the pollution released to the atmosphere and would impact the airlines’ profit margin due to the added fuel costs and longer flight times, as well as any future economic measures imposed on the increased air and noise pollution.

Keywords

Missed approachgo-aroundemissionscalculationFlight Management Systeminterpolationaircraftlanding
Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 120 , Issue 1228 , June 2016 , pp. 910 - 929
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2016 

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