RMIT的创造良好的团队设计了一个生物LNG航空答案

一队皇家墨尔本理工大学（RMIT）为首的法国航空航天工程专业的学生，使其后的最后五个国际空中客车公司的竞争。（CLIMA低温液态甲烷飞机的）团队是由经验丰富的工程师，从2013年的超过618份意见书选择五位决赛选手之一的全球性大学的挑战飞你的想法。联合国教科文组织支持的竞争，鼓励学生开拓思路，一个更可持续的航空业。

CLIMA队，将被空运到图卢兹面板6月12日空中客车公司和业内专家，以及来自巴西，印度，意大利和马来西亚其他入围展示他们的项目。

航天工程的学生 - 卢克SPITERI，马克史必达，马丁伯斯顿，凯瑟琳GRIGORIOU和詹姆斯Herringer - 团队交付的飞机燃料的可持续生产生物沼气液化和液化天然气的混合发展的提案。生物液化天然气将被存储在翼式坦克绝缘保持低温诱导液体状态。

该方法解决了经济成本高目前的喷气燃料，LNG一般约20％的成本，同时也产生更少的排放。据欧洲委员会气候行动报告，航空帐户直接排放，欧盟的温室气体排放总量的3％左右，约13％的全球运输排放。这些排放量的大部分来自国际航班。

航空二氧化碳排放量预计将每年增长约3-4％。到2020年，全球国际航空排放预计比2005年高出70％左右，即使燃油效率每年提高2％。国际民用航空组织（ICAO）预测，到2050年可能增长进一步300-700％（源）。

“这肯定是一个基于项目的方法，工程教育学院的航空航天，机械制造工程及行业准备的学生，我们生产的巨大价值证明，说：”亚历山大·苏比克教授，学院院长。“祝贺格雷厄姆位于Dorrington，创造良好的学术主管，谁是至关重要的，有助于培养他们的创新项目提交的特别注释，”他补充说。

球队的学术导师，位于Dorrington，格雷厄姆博士说：“空中客车可以找到没有过错的概念和技术上，我们认为这是可以做到的。”

一等奖的团队将赢得40,000美元的主办权创新周上运行他们的大学校园由空中客车公司的专家。亚军将获得20,000美元。总而言之，约58,000美元的奖金已经搭起空中客车公司。

得奖者将于6月14日在巴黎宣布，在教科文组织总部举行的仪式。

第二的皇家墨尔本理工大学的团队，价格实惠的液态甲烷飞机（ALMA），被选定为飞你的想法2013视频大赛的最后一轮。直到6月3日，市民可以投票为自己喜爱的在线视频，挑选赢家的最后五个参赛视频之一。

Spiteri的卢克说的气候和新华社的建议可以帮助催化的主要航空转型之中，将取代传统的喷气燃料便宜得多的液态甲烷。

A team of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) aerospace engineering students is headed to France after making it to the final five of an international Airbus competition. The Cryogenic Liquid Methane Aircraft (CLiMA) team is one of five finalists selected by experienced Airbus engineers from more than 618 submissions in the 2013 Fly Your Ideas global university challenge. The UNESCO-backed competition encourages students to develop ideas for a more sustainable aviation industry.

Team CLiMA will be flown to Toulouse to present their projects to a panel of Airbus and industry experts on 12 June, alongside the other finalists from Brazil, India, Italy and Malaysia.

The team of aerospace engineering students – Luke Spiteri, Mark Spiteri, Martin Burston, Katherine Grigoriou and James Herringer – delivered a proposal for the development of aircraft fuelled by a blend of sustainably-produced liquefied biomethane and liquefied natural gas. The Bio-LNG will be stored in wing-mounted tanks insulated to preserve the cryogenic-induced liquid state.

The approach addresses the high economic cost of current jet fuel, with LNG generally being about 20% of the cost, while also producing fewer emissions. According to a European Commission Climate Action report, direct emissions from aviation account for about 3% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions and about 13% of transport emissions globally. The large majority of these emissions comes from international flights.

The amount of CO2 emissions from aviation is expected to grow around 3-4 per cent per year. By 2020, global international aviation emissions are projected to be around 70% higher than in 2005 even if fuel efficiency improves by 2% per year. International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) forecasts that by 2050 they could grow by a further 300-700% (source).

“This recognition is a testament to the great value of the project-based approach to engineering education of the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the industry-ready students that we produce,” said Professor Aleksandar Subic, Dean of the School. “A special note of congratulations to Graham Dorrington, CLiMA’s academic supervisor, who was vital in helping develop their innovative project submission,” he added.

The team’s academic supervisor, Dr Graham Dorrington, said “Airbus can find no fault with the concept and technically we think it can be done.”

The first prize team will win $40,000 and the right to host an innovation week on their university campus run by Airbus experts. The runner-up will receive $20,000. Altogether, approximately $58,000 in prize money has been put up by Airbus.

Winners will be announced in Paris on 14 June, at a ceremony at UNESCO’s headquarters.

A second RMIT team, Affordable Liquid Methane Aircraft (ALMA), was selected for the final round of the Fly Your Ideas 2013 Video Competition. Members of the public can vote for their favourite video online until 3 June, with the winner picked from one of the final five video entries.

Luke Spiteri said the CLiMA and ALMA proposals could help catalyse a major aviation transformation in which conventional jet fuel would be replaced by much cheaper liquid methane.