LCA Conference

Lille, November 3rd & 4th 2011

LifeCycle Assessment of Materials and Processes in Aeronautics

Prepared by Clean Sky Eco-Design ITD (EDA) members

Presented by V. Selmin, Clean Sky Project Officer

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Clean Sky Programme

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• Focused on Greening of Aeronautics

• Europe’s largest Aeronautics Research Programme ever

• €1.6B value, split 50/50 between the Commission (cash) and Industry (in kind)

• Start February 2008; running up to 2017

• €650 m invested to date (September 2011)

• A new way of delivering R&T

• Integrated, ‘thematic’ set-up

• Large scale and complex testing, evaluation and demonstration (up to TRL6)

• Open Calls for engaging partners in delivering the roadmap

• Industry founders and Commission working as equity partners

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Clean Sky Programme

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6x2 ITD leaders

Up to 50%

74 associates

Up to 25%

• MEMBERS (leaders+ associates) are

committed for the full duration of CSJU

• PARTNERS are committed for the

duration of their topic(s)

> 500 partners (*) through calls

No less than25%

(*) ~400 today:

40% SME, 25%

Universities

Funding Breakdown

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Clean Sky Objectives – Eco-Design ITD

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GENERAL ACARE OBJECTIVES

• 80% cut in NOx emissions

• Halving perceived aircraft noise

• 50% cut in CO2 emissions per pass-Km by drastic fuel consumption reduction

• A green design, manufacturing, maintenance and disposal product life cycle

• 80% cut in NOx emissions

• Halving perceived aircraft noise

• 50% cut in CO2 emissions per pass-Km by drastic fuel consumption reduction

• A green design, manufacturing, maintenance and disposal product life cycle

ECO-

DESIGN ITD

(Airframe part)

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• Development of A/C technologies to reduce environmental

impacts during out of operation phases of the A/C lifecycle

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Eco-Design for Airframe (EDA) Objectives

Reduction of

inputs and

outputs

Technology

areas along

the lifecycle

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TECHNOLOGY SoA

Scoping

Selection for development

Selection for

demonstration

Development maturation

DEMONSTRATION Demo. Def.

Demonstration

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

SYSTEM Reqts

Eco-Statement - LCA Final Eco-St. - LCA

Guidelines

Evaluation tools - LCA to TE

EDA Overall Logic

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State of the art 235 technologies

Technology selection and development

“Clustering” and

downsizing 157 Remaining

technologies

Trade-off based

on a scoring

Scoping Technology Development

2010 2011–2012–2013

129 selected

technologies

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Examples of green technologies

Incremental sheet forming

Replacement of chemical

machining by mechanical

machining

Press Forming of TS

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23 A/C Reference parts

Bill of Materials & Processes

A/C Material &

Process cakes

Overall LCA Logic

LCA on Reference

parts

Technologies Eco-Statement (current & innovative)

Combination for A/C

extrapolation

A/C Level Eco-Statement

(current & innovative)

Material & Process Technologies

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A global approach to assess environmental Impacts:

All stages of the product life cycle

Several impact categories

Several actors

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Fabrication

•Process

•Materials Acquisition

Assembly

•Processing

•Manufacturing

Use

•Flight

•Reuse

•Maintenance

End Of Life

•Dismantling

•Recycling

•Disposal

Energy/ Raw Materials /Water..

Air Emissions/Land Use / WaterEffluents/…

2 Multi-criteria

Results:

Identify Environmental burdens

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What is LCA?

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Direct + Indirect Energy Consumtion - kWh

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

RAW MATERIAL MANUFACTURING EOL

ASSY

CLIP

STRINGER

FRAME

SKIN

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Example of LCA: airliner fuselage panel

Direct & indirect energy consumption (kWh) versus life phase Endpoint impact for materials and processes

General aggregated results

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Human health Ecosystem

quality

Climate change Resources

Assembly

Primer

CAA

Processes

Aluminium

Metallic fuselage panel Fuselage panel material mix

Fuselage panel LCA model

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Databases 14

EDA LCA Platform

Commercial Aerospace

(CS EDA developed)

Tools Expert

GABI ATALYS

(Airbus)

Interface WRAPPER

Graphical User friendly Interface (GUI)

visually communicative (JAVA)

Non-expert

ARCHITECTURE

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EDA Overall Eco-statement Planning

WP 3.1.1 LCA tools

T0+54

WP 3.1.2 Current Eco-Statement

T0+72

WP 3.1.3 Final Eco-Statement

T0+84

Reference A/C

Coming from vehicle ITDs

Conceptual A/C

Coming from vehicle ITDs

Eco-assessment of current /

innovative technologies to be

carried out on a regular basis

Conceptual A/C Reference A/C

2015 2014 2013

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© 2011 by the CleanSky Leading Partners: Airbus,

AgustaWestland, Alenia Aeronautica, Dassault Aviation,

EADS-CASA, Eurocopter, Fraunhofer Institute, Liebherr

Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, Saab AB, Safran Thales and the

European Commission.

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