AeroMAPS, a Decision-Making Tool for Air Transportation Transition The Directorate of Research and Educational Resources (DRRP) has a twofold mission: • to provide the Directorate of Education with the necessary skills to design and implement all the courses provided now and in the future by the Institute, and • to develop scientific knowledge and innovation potential for civil society, companies and sovereignty issues in the aerospace and space engineering fields. professors and research engineers order intakes in the research field of 2023 internal and collaborative research projects directly target decarbonisation or are related to the transition to sustainable aerospace. PhD students enrolled at ISAE-SUPAERO projects directly subsidised by the European Commission What is the impact for each air transportation transition strategy? This is the question the AeroMAPS project seeks to answer. AeroMAPS aims to develop open-source tools to explore and assess the sustainability of various transition scenarios for air transport. This includes building an integrated sectoral assessment model that takes account of technological, environmental, economic, and sociological considerations. More specifically, this model will enable the assessment of the impact of transition strategies such as hydrogen aircraft, flight quotas, etc. on CO2 emissions, ticket prices, and usage. This multidisciplinary project is being carried out by the Institute for Sustainable Aviation (ISA). AeroMAPS, the main tool used to simulate prospective scenarios, and AeroSCOPE, the tool used to explore sector emissions per region of the world. In addition to research and training activities, the aim of the project is to provide decision-making support for institutional, industrial, and association decision-makers in the aviation ecosystem. More broadly, AeroMAPS is a way for ISAE-SUPAERO to contribute to the public debate on the place of aviation in our society. The project currently includes two tools: Air Conditioning System for Future Carbon-Free Aircraft: ISAE-SUPAERO and Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse Join Forces Adapting transportation to use carbon-free energy sources requires significant changes in system architecture. On aircraft, many subsystems, such as propellers or air conditioning units, are affected. The turbomachinery involved must bemodified; in the electrification process, the required operating range for turbines and compressors must be increased beyond the current state of the art, while offering very high efficiency. The CASTOR chair aims to achieve this. This is a joint research programme between Liebherr-Aerospace and ISAE-SUPAERO, supported by the ANR. A team of twelve people will lead the scientific programme over a four-year period between the DAEP laboratory and the company. The primary goal is to help meet the electrification requirements of air conditioning systems in aircraft. However, research will also help to develop more efficient fuel cells or heat recovery cycles. In the long term, they are aimed at the emergence of new turbomachinery system architectures, which can be applied to other industrial sectors. Key Value Key Figures As part of their studies of asteroids and small bodies in the solar system, the DEOS SSPA team is interested in the behaviour of granular materials representative of asteroid surface material in lowgravity and vacuum conditions. Understanding how soil behaves on a planetary surface is important for all interactions with these surfaces, such as in the design of tools, instruments, vehicles, and even future human habitats. The ERC GRAVITE project aims at implementing a newmeans of testing—a variable gravity tower from 5 to 8 m high— which will be able to simulate the gravitational force on each individual experiment over three orders of magnitude (1/1000 at 1 g, where ‘g’ is Earth’s gravity). This allows the team to recreate the gravitational environment on the surface of different planetary bodies to directly study the influence of gravity on soil behaviour. The results will help to reduce risk and improve the performance and scientific benefits from future space instruments and missions. For this project, Naomi Murdoch, a professor at the SSPA, received a consolidator grant from the ERC programme in 2023, withthesumof €2.3millionoverfiveyears. This highly selective and internationally renowned grant is awarded to researchers with a PhD and between 7 and 12 years of experience for a subject considered to be particularly promising. 22 23 124 275 22% €12M 8 An ERC Grant for GRAVITE, an Ambitious Project to Prepare for Future Planetary Exploration Naomi Murdoch Physicist and Planetologist at ISAE-SUPAERO Research and Teaching Resources at the Heart of Education ISAE-SUPAERO • ANNUAL REPORT 2023 ISAE-SUPAERO • ANNUAL REPORT 2023
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