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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ECO GAM 2018 (Eco-Design Transverse Activity GAM 2018)

Teaser

Summary

The aviation industry is a strong force for economic growth. New aircraft concepts will play an important role for air transportation for the future. Industry and politics need to know which environmental impacts and what amount of impacts occur in which life cycle stage. The EC and the aviation industry have identified this challenge and launched the CLEAN SKY INITIATIVE with its continuation in the Clean Sky 2 Work Programme. In Clean Sky 2 ecoDESIGN is a Transverse Activity. This offers the possibility for an optimal implementation of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) through every ITD and IADP.

The ecoDESIGN Transverse Activity (TA) delivers a Design for Environment 2020 guidance (DfE 2020+) for the European Aviation industry to help its global competitiveness. Based on experience and progress of Clean Sky 1, this will employ a modern developed Life Cycle Impact Analysis for the integrated Clean Sky 2 portfolio of technologies and their inventories along eight defined eco-themes including eco-statements and socio-economic statements on a micro-economic build-up.

The ecoDESIGN Transverse Activity takes an integrated perspective of the holistic lifecycle across the products and technologies under development in Clean Sky 2. This means evaluating the eco aspects associated with every stage of the life-cycle, minding the consumption of resources (energy, materials, land and water); emissions into air, water, and the ground that are relevant for general environment and human health, inclusively in the workshop (dust, tool vibration, chemical contact etc). Waste, especially hazardous waste, prominently addressed in environmental legislation is accounted for as well. The assessment picture is being upgraded and newly balanced in view of a grown product umbrella. Implicitly, supply chain opportunities/ factors for equipment and process options have to be logistically considered in aviation material flows.

The ecoDESIGN Transverse Activity Life Cycle Impact Analysis (LCIA) of the technology inventory rises on the CS2 level to three Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- The Re-Use Recycle Quota;
- The Ground Pollution Potential improvement (including indicators to equivalent global warming, chemical and energy loads, bio diversity and resource depletion risks) and thirdly
- Eco-Statements with Socio-Economic Derivative.

Key measuring point along the way of the development is the Design for Environment 2020 guidance milestone (DfE2020). The ecoDESIGN sustainable development goals are measured against a 2014 status quo. The deliverables will take care to ensure the cross-over between the uptake of advanced technology and state of the art conventional means (work effort units and machining) and reflecting on job sensitivities.

Work performed

To ensure a proper interaction with all IADPs and ITDs of the CS2 Programme an ecoDESIGN Coordination Committee has been established. It is assisted by a set of values and merit to drive particular activities of CS2 ecoDESIGN excellence. Building on Clean Sky 1 and looking forward the VEES (Vehicle Ecological Economic Synergy) and EDAS (ecoDESIGN Analysis) backbone is a part of organizing a structured stewardship between analysis objectives and technological exercises which is inherited by the Life Cycle Inventory.

A Continuous technology screening and mapping processes have been installed and conducted to grasp the CS2 technology portfolio and provide oversight. Eight eco themes and a simplified aircraft and industry model were applied for structuring and identification of relevant content for ecoDESIGN analysis.

The inventory has to be accrued to a useful coverage by exploiting the unique Clean Sky stakeholdership. In view of abridging a strong outcomes short-list it is also important to organize major cohorts and utilities in the Clean Sky 2 demonstrators which stand out presently to be :
- Multi Functional Fuselage & Human Centered Cabin
- Advanced Wing Design
- Major Systems Treatments & Equipment Integration
- Engine Components
- Future Connected Factory

In the course of two initiatives and based on a pre-evaluation several activities have been launched on excellence level to provide Life Cycle Inventories for ecoDESIGN analysis (e.g. in the areas of hazardous material / REACh compliance, composites, recycling, end of life, additive manufacturing, machining, storage, transmission, supply, etc.). All of the activities were provided with a strong guidance to deliver particular Life Cycle Inventories to the ecoDESIGN analysis and database. Additional activities are to follow by oncoming initiatives.

Three Technology Benchmark Examples have been carried out for orientation and to ensure a minimum standard level for all additional activities to come.

A gap analysis approach has been derived and applied to the LCA results of a CS1 Demonstrator indicating a potential for further improvement with regard to circular economy and the vision of closed material systems.

To further activate transversal synergies within the CS2 Programme a series of special, sector-overarching workshops has been initiated on materials, processes and ressources such as: additive manufacturing, digital materials, on water, free production optimization, REACh compliance, recycling etc.

Dissemination and Communication on the activity have been carried out through conferences, publications, expositions and workshops.

Final results

Future developments will see an elevated context of Design for Environment 2020+ by ensuring sustainable inventory management through enhanced digital expedience, and by helping the acceleration of resource efficient European production innovations, securing skilled jobs of the future in a global industry.

Each vehicle platform demonstration constitutes a vibrant micro economic test field that in sum are committed in a macro CS2 programming scale. In return for component and flight performance testing, green manufacturing solutions may be built into the next future factory, skills and culture of design, extended to more profitable product service life.

An associated ecoDESIGN guidance indicator framework shall answer to such matters and be commensurate to social impacts, partnering European aviation sector competitiveness and services capacity of the future.

The ecoDESIGN Database, one side from the industries & distribution networks, the other complimented from the assimilated aeronautics materials/processes, through Clean Sky directly and indirectly, takes on a mighty challenge.

And apart from the exploitation of the tremendous Clean Sky 1 LCA engagement, new societal and CS2 programme dimensions have led to a hybrid caretaking and enrichment of new outside impulses, dictating that a new definition of evolution and purpose-CIT(communication information technology) for the past and next programme stages is on its way. This will be counted for by the eco hybrid platform delivery.