friendly aircraft cabin environment

Air Quality in Passenger Aircraft 16/17 October 2003

FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT CABIN ENVIRONMENT

findings relating to passenger comfort

Antonio Paonessa, FACE Co-ordinator [Alenia Aeronautica]


– Presenter: Antonio Paonessa

– Date: October 16/17 , 2003

– Event: Air Quality in Passenger aircraft

(International Aviation Conference)

– Location: London

– Company: ALENIA Aeronautica S.p.A.


FACE Technology Platform Research

� It is a Project funded by the CEC under the 5th Framework Programme, key action 4, promoting:

Competitive and Sustainable Growth� It focuses on passengers’ and crew’s

environmental comfort by exploring and validating improvements in turbofan civil aircraft.

� Web-site: http://face.aeronautica.alenia.it


Co-ordination staff

• CEC Scientific officer:

– Marco Brusati, Per Kruppa

• Programme co-ordination

– Antonio Paonessa (Alenia) Programme Co-ordinator

– Martin Dechow (Airbus-D) Air_Quality Tech. Manager

– Daniela Melluso (Alenia) Noise &Vibration Tech. Manager

– Pierre Noel (Thales) Multimedia Tech. Manager

– Benoit Berton (Dassault) Exploitation Manager


FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT CABIN ENVIRONMENTFRIENDLY AIRCRAFT CABIN ENVIRONMENT

Project No. GRD1-2001-40205

Contract No. G4RD-CT2002-00764

TOTAL COST: 34,717 KEuro

EU FUNDING: 17,995 KEuro (51.8%)

START UPSTART UP 01-04-2002

DURATIONDURATION 48 months


AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1)

Aims to provide advanced understanding of the mainenvironmental behaviours linked to:

Noise & VibrationAir Quality ControlComfort impact on Multimedia utilisation

for application in European civil turbofan aircraft Cabinprojects in the near future


AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (2)

Reduce broadband noise component focalising onnew composite fuselage structures for commercialaircraft application.

Improvements of cabin air quality, by reducingthe level of pollutants and by improvinghygrothermal comfort parameters.

Assessment of the environmental comfortparameter impact on multimedia use in the aircraftcabin and of the reverse effect of such use on thepassengers’ comfort.


SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL INNOVATIONSIntegrate and validate optimised comfort control measures to support the development of “New civil turbofan Aircraft” accounting for comfort impacts.Understanding of “New composite fuselage structure” acoustic behaviour to provide design guidelines to save benefits of weight and cost reduction as much as possible.

Integrate equipment developed within the air qualitybranch improving overall comfort levels.

Assess the cabin environment impacts on Multimedia Improve the perceived global environmental comfortby the passengers as well as by the crew members.

Air Quality in Passenger Aircraft 16/17 October 2003IND REC HES OTH

UN.NA KTHTWE

UNOL

CIRA

FhG/IBP

ONERA

NLR

VTT

BRE

HCSA

CTT

PALL

VIBRATECBIOCLEAR

ALENIAINASCO

B & KAIRBUS-D

AUXITROL

LLISPEDA

EC-SAS

ECD

EADS-GEADS-F

TAVLABINAL

LMSLTS NOVO

PARTNERSHIP - GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION


WORK PLAN - PROJECT ACTIVITY FLOW

WP1 General Aircraft Comfort Requirements [Alenia]

WP2Environmental

Comfort

Index[BRE]

WP4Air Quality

Requirements[Airbus D]

WP3Noise & Vibration

RequirementsIncluding Multimedia

[EADS-CRC G]

WP5Environmental

Comfort

Procedure[NLR]

WP6Noise & Vibration

IntegrationIncluding Multimedia

[Dassault]

WP8 Technology Platform Integration [Alenia]

WP9 Assessment & Exploitation of Results [Alenia]

WP7Air Quality

Integration[Airbus D]


PLATFORMSPLATFORMS

Pressure

Air quality

Noise

Multimedia

Vibration


INTEGRATION CONCEPTUAL STRUCTUREINTEGRATION CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE

CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES

FUBACOMPWT8.2

Pressure

CASIV/TIBSWT8.3

Multimedia

Noise

Vibration

Air quality

input:

SUBJECTIVETEST

ECI Definition

Models Models validationvalidation

&&theoretical theoretical optimisationoptimisation

ECI ECI Validation Validation including including

multimediamultimedia

TANGOWT8.1

WT8.4

MULTIMEDIA

INTEGRATEDINTEGRATEDAIRAIR--QUALITY CONCEPTSQUALITY CONCEPTS

INTEGRATEDINTEGRATEDSTRUCTURAL CONCEPTSSTRUCTURAL CONCEPTS

INTEGRATED INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA SETMULTIMEDIA SET--UPUP

ECI VALIDATIONWT8.5


ACE Facility


ACE Facility features/performance

• control of the main cabin environmental parameters• install and operate multimedia systems inside • reproduce/control different aircraft cabin

environmental configurations

• evaluate environmental parameter’s effects on passenger comfort

• evaluate different combination of cabin parameters• assess “Comfort Index” validity


Interactions with other Technology Platform

Low-Weight Low-Cost Structure

Power Optimisation

Environmental Impact Comfort

TANGO POA

SILENCER

Low-Weight Low-Cost Structure

Environmental Impact

Power Optimisation

Comfort


CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER PROJECTS - 1CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER PROJECTS - 1

HEACEHEACE: a co-operation agreement has been approved, it include:

hexchange of technical information and experimental results

huse of common test facility

TANGOTANGO: a preliminary co-operation agreement has been agreed, it include:

hutilization of the TANGO composite fuselage barrel for acoustic testing

hexchange of technical information to simulate the structural noise and vibration response of the fuselage composite structure



FUBACOMPFUBACOMP: a co-operation agreement has been defined, it include:

hutilization of the FUBACOMP composite fuselage barrel for acoustic testing

hexchange of technical information to simulate the structural noise and vibration response of the fuselage composite structure

POAPOA: exchange of information on equipment noise components trough Partners involved in both Projects



SILENCE(R)SILENCE(R): exchange of information on engine noise components trough Partners involved in both Projects.

ASICA:ASICA:exchange of information on status of the art and general system description etc. trough Partners involved in both Projects.

CABINAIR:CABINAIR:exchange of information on status of the art and general system description etc. trough Partners involved in both Projects.


FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -1FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -1� Contribution to Air Quality branch is given by:

– Aircraft Manufacturer – Systems/Equipment suppliers– Research Centres

– Regulation Authority (through CabinAir collaboration)

� The following main input are taken into account.– Standards– Regulations – Recommendations

[e.g. WHO, OSHA, TWA, ASHRAE, JAR, FAR, US EPA ]

� Large link to CabinAir occurs, in particular:


FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -2FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -2Humidity Concept (FACE WP 4.1/7.1):♦ Active Humidification

♦ Active & Passive De-Humidification

♦ Humidification Measurements Technologies

LINK to CabinAir:♦ CabinAir envisages evaluation of range of technologies including

increasing recirculation (e.g. by pollutant adsorption) to enhance cost effectiveness. Increased recirculation would raise overall humidity levels and thus require de-humidification of certain areas (e.g. crown area)


Thermal Concept (FACE WP 4.2/7.2):♦ Individual Seat Climatisation

♦ Special Compartment Heating & Cooling

LINK to CabinAir:♦ CabinAir's “Measurement in the Sky” campaign addresses the

perception of overall thermal comfort . FACE supplements this approach with an evaluation of the capabilities of individual climatisation

♦ CabinAir investigates draft in the general cabin area. FACE further investigate this issue with detailed simulation of special areas (galleys, rest compartments etc.)

FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -3FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -3


FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -4FACE AIR QUALITY BRANCH -4

Air Purification (FACE WP 4.3/7.3):♦ Removal of gaseous contaminants from recirculated air

♦ Removal of gaseous & particles from outside air

♦ Development of appropriate measurement technology (e.g. ozone sensor)

LINK to CabinAir:♦ CabinAir's approach to evaluate increased recirculation calls for

advanced air purification technologies


CONCLUSIONS� Collaboration among different research teams is running

with reciprocal satisfaction.

� Current available results, as well as others achievable in the future, could be used by all teams according to the agreed shear of information to improve the European know how in the field.

� Further collaborations aimed to use results of these projects and leading to increase cabin comfort are in preparation and will be proposed during the 6th Framework calls.

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