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DOI	10.1039/d0ee02362k
	Post-combustion emissions control in aero-gas turbine engines
	Prashanth P.; Speth R.L.; Eastham S.D.; Sabnis J.S.; Barrett S.R.H.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	17545692
起始页码	916
结束页码	930
卷号	14 期号:2
英文摘要	Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from aircraft cause air quality degradation and climate change. Efforts to improve the efficiency of aircraft propulsion systems are leading to small, power-dense engine cores with higher overall pressure ratios and combustion temperatures, which can result in higher NOx emissions. The trend towards smaller engine cores with smaller mass flow rates in the core stream, presents new opportunities for emissions control. Specifically, we propose and assess using a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that was previously infeasible when mass flow rates in the core were an order of magnitude larger than heavy-duty diesel engines for road based applications. SCR systems would reduce NOx emissions at the cost of increased aircraft weight and specific fuel consumption due to the pressure drop in the core stream induced by the catalyst. We quantify the effects of these trade-offs in terms of emissions reduction and fuel burn increase using representative engine cycle models provided by a major aero-gas turbine manufacturer. Due to its size, any SCR system will likely need to be housed in the aircraft body, potentially making it most suitable for future hybrid- or turbo-electric aircraft designs. Furthermore, SCR systems require ultra-low sulfur (ULS) fuel to prevent catalytic fouling. We find that employing an ammonia-based SCR results in an approximately 95% reduction in NOx emissions in exchange for a ∼0.5% increase in block fuel burn. The performance of the post-combustion emissions control (PCEC) system is shown to improve for smaller-core engines, such as those proposed in the NASA N + 3 time-line (2030-2035). Using a global chemistry-transport model we estimate that PCEC used with ULS fuel, could avert ∼92% of aviation air pollution related early deaths each year. Using a simplified climate model and accounting for changes in emissions (including life cycle emissions) and radiative forcing we estimate that PCEC with ULS fuel increases climate damages by ∼7.5%. We estimate that the net benefit of using PCEC accounting for air quality and climate impacts is 304 USD (2015) per metric tonne of jet fuel burned, or a reduction of ∼52% in monetized air quality and climate damages. © The Royal Society of Chemistry.
英文关键词	Air quality; Aircraft propulsion; Ammonia; Atmospheric movements; Atmospheric radiation; Climate change; Climate models; Combustion; Economic and social effects; Emission control; Fuel consumption; Fuels; Gas emissions; Gas turbines; Life cycle; Mass transfer; More electric aircraft; NASA; Nitrogen oxides; Selective catalytic reduction; Aero gas turbine engines; Aircraft propulsion systems; Combustion temperatures; Global chemistry transport model; Heavy-duty diesel engine; Overall pressure ratios; Selective catalytic reduction systems; Specific fuel consumption; Jet aircraft; air quality; atmospheric pollution; catalysis; catalyst; climate change; climate modeling; diesel engine; emission; fuel consumption; life cycle analysis; nitric oxide; nitrogen oxides; pressure drop; radiative forcing; wind turbine
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy & Environmental Science
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/190778
作者单位	Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Prashanth P.,Speth R.L.,Eastham S.D.,et al. Post-combustion emissions control in aero-gas turbine engines[J],2021,14(2).
APA	Prashanth P.,Speth R.L.,Eastham S.D.,Sabnis J.S.,&Barrett S.R.H..(2021).Post-combustion emissions control in aero-gas turbine engines.Energy & Environmental Science,14(2).
MLA	Prashanth P.,et al."Post-combustion emissions control in aero-gas turbine engines".Energy & Environmental Science 14.2(2021).