Local Air Quality
This Group focuses upon the way in which airports and airlines deal with air quality issues, and is led by Professor David Raper. The impact of aircraft emissions on local air quality is becoming a capacity constraint for many airports because of new legislative and regulatory requirements. CATE has expertise in air quality modelling and monitoring and provides advice on how emissions can be managed and reduced. Its research programme includes investigation of some of the fundamental processes that control dispersion of pollutants around airports. Recent EPSRC (UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) grants have
enabled CATE and research partners to measure and model the dispersion of NOx and
particulates as emitted by individual aircraft on and near to the ground. The Group is leading one of the three recently-established Air Quality Panels for the UK Department of Transport, and contributing to another in order to review the impact of airport related emissions on air quality around Heathrow Airport.
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