This presentation explores how advanced solar airfield lighting solutions enable airports to lower energy consumption, reduce maintenance demands, and accelerates toward net zero goals, while maintaining the reliability and compliance required for safe, continuous operations.
In this session, Isha Moharir shares how AeroDelft, a student team based at TU Delft, is contributing to the race to Net Zero aviation by integrating, testing and qualifying hydrogen-electric propulsion in a real aircraft environment. By translating research into practical aircraft systems and collaborating closely with industry partners, AeroDelft supports the progression of hydrogen toward safe and scalable aviation use.
The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) is a global leader in atmospheric research and innovation. We fulfil our purpose as a partner of the Natural Environment Research Council and UK Research and Innovation, alongside British Antarctic Survey, British Geological Survey, National Centre for Earth Observation, National Oceanography Centre, and UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Since 2002, we have played a leading role in addressing global environmental challenges. We work to understand our atmosphere by examining the past, observing the present, and forecasting the future.
From a sustainable skies perspective we have been working with industry and regulators on aviation emissions, specialising in particle and gas phase measurements. We are capable of both ground and inflight measurements and recently conducted the first UK “chase” experiment, a pioneering project investigated how sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) could reduce aircraft emissions of soot and volatile particles, and a range of gases including nitrogen oxides.
This presentation introduces PySAF’s next generation biomass biocrude platform, which converts agricultural and forestry residues into refinery ready intermediates for sustainable aviation fuel, marine fuels, chemicals and advanced materials. By integrating with existing refining and petrochemical infrastructure, the platform is designed to scale rapidly and lower the cost and carbon intensity of drop in products compared with fossil feedstocks. The session will share TRL 4 results, key process innovations and the roadmap to commercial deployment in collaboration with global industry and academic partners.
A session to discuss the potential of eVTOLs and Zero Emission aircraft within the South West region at the end of this decade, how they can bolster the public transport network and what is required to enable their introduction before 2030.
The world of intellectual property (IP) can be a confusing one. In this session we take you through the benefits of IP in terms of obtaining investment, the different IP rights and how they can apply to an example aerospace product, a general IP strategy and some actions you can take now to get yourself investment ready.
In this session, we will speak about the Resilience and Emergency Services Coordination Using Enabled-drones (RESCUE) project, which is designed to deliver a Somerset-based environmental monitoring and resilience service using drones.