01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated System (Basics and Theory)
ANALYZING THE IMPACTS OF SUSTAINABLE POWERTRAINS FOR SHORT-HAUL COMMUTER AIRLINES
F. Salucci¹, N. Prabhakar¹, D. Karbowski¹; ¹Argonne National Laboratory, United States
We retrofitted an AVGAS-fueled 9-pax small commuter aircraft with three powertrains: electric, hybrid-electric, fuel cell hybrid-electric. The retrofitted aircraft will be employed to perform routes currently flown with the conventional version of the aircraft. For each fleet, we will estimate the amount of fuel, electric energy to recharge the batteries, and resulting well-to-wake CO2 emissions.