3.8.1 Guest Interview with Prof. Yu Zhang

Now we would like to invite you to the last video of this week – an interview with Prof. Yu Zhang (from the University of South Florida) who will share more about the behind the scenes efforts to decarbonize aviation.

Key takeaways:

  1. Continuous descent approach is a new method of landing to reduce energy consumption of an aircraft by allowing it to perform an optimized smooth descending
  2. Airport Collaborative Decision Making (ACDM) can be a useful approach to reduce taxiing delay from the active moving area to the gate and reduce air fuel consumption
  3. There are numerous on-board and external systems that can reduce an aircraft’s energy consumption during ground movement
  4. Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy fuel for aircrafts, yet numerous challenges have to be resolved to make it a feasible option
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