UNIT 1 Airports

24 OF SEPTEMBER DE OF 2015 INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE TEHUACÁN

Sistemas de transporte

Name: Carlos Alberto Huerta Alfaro

Subject-matter: Sistemas de transporte

Career: Ingeniería Civil

Group: C

Teacher: Ing. Milton Cuesta Martínez

Schedule: 15:00 – 16:00

Date: 24/09/2015

Semester: August – December 2015

Technological Advances in Airports

In the following essay will talk about the great technological avancez that

are emerging in our time, such as the Green Airport which main objective is

to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and become a neutral facility

in carbon emissions, other equally important issue is the Cascade Project

which seeks a 20% reduction in the energy costs and carbon emissions

through this project.

Well, first we talk about the Green Airport which makes responsible use of

natural resources for its operation, in addition to reducing energy Consumer

goods and makes use of renewable energy to minimize the emición of

greenhouse gases and ordering of good way to waste.

The company Aena (ENAIRE is the public entity in charge of civil air

navigation and civil airports in Spain general interest of the state.) is starting

this project In which will develop several projects in order to reduce energy

and carbon dioxide emissions, Aena is exploring various technological

advances that improve energy efficiency to reduce energy consumption

and promote energy production from renewable sources, after evaluating

these technologies will be impossible to deny that these operations

guarantee operability and airport security.

Improvement actions posed for this Green Airport and thus reduce by 20%

the carbon dioxide emotions can be divided into two: aircraft and

passengers.

Aircraft, is the renewal of mobile ground handling equipment, facilities visual

approach indicators (PAPI) more efficient than allow a saving of between 21

and 48%, reducing the time and distance of aircraft taxiing to and from the

gates using a single engine on those routes for fuel, LED devices facilities in

aeronautical ground lights using its high performance and low cost of

maintenance.

Now, the actions to take on passengers are: efficient climate control and

lighting. With installations of solar panels, wind turbines and geothermal

HVAC systems, using LED luminaires and replacement lamps low

consumption and high efficiency, encouraging the use of spaces that allow

more natural light, Advanced Systems parking management, sensors and

forming signaling lights in order to achieve greater energy savings and

reduced noise and pollution.

Now I speak of Cascade project which I think is a great project which much

is expected, this project is being developed by different researchers from

European countries, it is a software or system with sensors that achieves a

reduction of 20 % in energy costs and the carbon emiciones by integrating

detection and fault diagnosis.

This system will allow a saving of up to 6000 megawatts / hour this leads to a

saving of 840,000 euros per year. The system basically consists of

implementing detection and diagnosis of faults, such as malfunctioning fans,

heating and cooling or control errors, this through a computer program that

analyzes data sent by sensors in the case of detect faults, failure to report

maintenance teams to fix the problem.

In conclusion I can say that although they are very different projects, both

are aimed to help the environment and clearly the economy, and I think this

project Cascade fit perfectly in the green airport as I said before both seek

to help the environment ambient.

Bibliography

http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite/sostenibilidad/es/Page/1237548641863/Aeropu

erto-Verde.html

http://avances-tecnologicos.euroresidentes.com/2014/07/un-nuevo-software-

permitira-reducir-el.html