This project involved coordination between dozens of researchers and stakeholders from several different countries relating to the influence of jet fuel variation on sprays and combustion operability including ignition and lean blowout, and the models required to anticipate combustor performance. The models included chemical kinetic models of the c
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The twofold goals for this study were to determine an optimum choice for ribonucleic acid sequencing (RNA-Seq) alignment software and to determine which differential expression software packages produced consistent and accurate results. RNA was extracted from blood and pooled to produce homogenous sample material to ensure that any differential exp
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute. Aerospace Medical Education Division
2023-01-01
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Aeromedical Safety Brochures are prepared for general aviation pilots, commercial pilots and physicians. The brochures acquaint the aviation community with the physiological challenges of the aviation environment and relevant safety concerns.
Ribonucleic acid sequencing (RNA-Seq) is a valuable and commonly used technique to quantify the number of individual RNA transcripts within a sample. RNA-Seq typically requires a small amount of pure and concentrated RNA, which can necessitate additional concentration or purification of previously isolated RNA samples. Magnetic beads and silica-bas
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As part of a larger project aimed at gaining a better understanding of factors that affect the quality of test results using Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs), the FAA tested the effects of long-term static ATD pelvis loading during storage. Testing simulated two types of ATD pelvis storage methods of the 50th percentile Hybrid III ATD for one ye
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The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control organization (ATO) encompasses a variety of facilities that include towers, terminal radar approach control facilities (TRACONs), and air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs). Well trained air traffic controllers using effective automation can exploit alarms, alerts and warnings (collectiv
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Background: Studies of the association between aircraft noise and hypertension are complicated by inadequate control for potential confounders and a lack of longitudinal assessments, and existing evidence is inconclusive. Objectives: We evaluated the association between long-term aircraft noise exposure and risk of hypertension among post-menopausa
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Six hundred and seventy-five measurements of dynamic viscosity and density have been used to assess the prediction error of the Arrhenius blending rule for kinematic viscosity of hydrocarbon mixtures. Major trends within the data show that mixture complexity–binary to hundreds of components—and temperature are more important determinants of predict
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All the viscosity and density data measured in support of this manuscript are provided within the “data” tab of the attached document called HEAT_LAB_ViscosityData_2022 (XLSX). Expanded versions of Tables 1, 2 are provided in the other tab, “Material_list”. A definition of important terms used throughout the theory section is provided in Viscosity_
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment
2022-12-01
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This report covers the period October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021. The Center was established by the authority of FAA solicitation 13-C-AJFE-Solicitation. During that time the ASCENT team launched a new website, which can be viewed at ascent.aero. The next meeting will be held April 5-7, 2022, in Alexandria, VA.
United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment
2022-12-01
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This report covers the period October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021. The Center was established by the authority of FAA solicitation 13-C-AJFE-Solicitation. During that time the ASCENT team launched a new website, which can be viewed at ascent.aero. The next meeting will be held April 5-7, 2022, in Alexandria, VA.
The impact of airport operations on air quality is a key public health concern for the population surrounding an airport. Air pollution regulations require the assessment of this impact using dispersion models. Modeling dispersion of aircraft-related sources poses challenges because of the large number and variety of airport sources, which include
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This study outlines an effort to report on the physicochemical variability of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), leveraging data from the FAA Alternative Jet Fuels Test Database (AJFTD). The AJFTD, containing fuel sample records of conventional and sustainable aviation fuels to date, was developed by the PIs through the FAA Center of Excellence (ASC
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This study examines the behavior of secondary sonic booms on United States (U.S.) coastlines to have a more complete understanding of the impact of supersonic travel on communities. Secondary sonic booms occur when the atmospheric conditions are such that the atmospheric refraction causes the sound that would ordinarily not reach the ground to bend
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As society progresses towards increased automation in aviation—such as with Advanced Air Mobility and Unmanned Aircraft Systems—it is important to have a common understanding and perspective about automation among the many stakeholders, including aviation system designers, operators, maintainers, and regulatory authorities. Unfortunately, the disco
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Mobility reductions following the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States were higher, and sustained longer, for aviation than ground transportation activity. We evaluate changes in ultrafine particle (UFP, Dp < 100 nm, a marker of fuel combustion emissions) concentrations at a site near Logan Airport (Boston, Massachusetts) in relation to mobility
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This research explores an advanced method of fuel composition determination and builds upon typical hydrocarbon group type analyses performed with two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC). In this study, structural information of individual species within Virent’s Synthetic Aromatic Kerosene (SAK) is identified by vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectro
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The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control organization (ATO) encompasses a variety of facilities that include towers, terminal radar approach control facilities (TRACONs), and air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs). Well trained air traffic controllers using effective automation can exploit alarms, alerts and warnings (collectiv
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The University of Tennessee’s (UT) Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics models supply chains for both liquid and electricity generating technologies currently in use and/or forthcoming for the bio/renewable energy industry using the input–output model IMPLAN®. The approach for ethanol, biodiesel, and other liquid fuels includes the est
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