Advanced Emission Model Tool

The Advanced Emission Model (AEM3) is a standalone system used to estimate aviation emissions (CO2, H2O, SOx, NOx, HC, CO, Benzene, VOC , TOG , PM) and fuel burn. It analyzes flight profile data on a flight-by-flight base for air traffic scenarios of almost any scope, from local studies around airports to global emissions from air traffic.

Airport Local Air Quality Studies

The ALAQS toolset is a ESRI arcView GIS (Geographical Information System) based application for modeling airport emissions and concentrations. ALAQS can be used to estimate emissions (CO, HC, NOx, SOx, PM10) related to all airport emissions sources (aircraft & APU, ground handling, road vehicles, infrastructure sources). ALAQS allows the airport emissions specialist to calculate emission inventories which can then form the basis of dispersion studies, aiming at the estimation of airport’s related emissions concentrations. It also contains features to visualize on detailed maps both emissions and concentrations. The toolset is used to assess local air pollution concentration for flexible user-defined scenarios (current or future) on an hourly to yearly time scale.

The ALAQS toolset also allows users to investigate 'off-line' the likely impact of using a different emissions inventory and dispersion methods or parameters at a particular airport.

The program provides a layered view of the emissions inventory results and allows different dispersion models to be used to calculate concentrations. The system is supplied with default values for most of the emissions sources to ease the important job of data acquisition and preparation.

Please note that the Tool Support should start the last week of January 2010.