In Washington D.C, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued more than $16 million in grants to 14 universities across the country for research to reduce aviation emissions and noise. The university teams are members of the Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT), part of the FAA’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment.
“The awards we are making today will fund research at universities across the country for a more sustainable American aviation system,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
The FAA awarded a total of 43 grants to the university research teams. Projects focus on sustainable aviation fuel, alternative jet fuel supply chains, electrification, noise reduction, noise exposure, hydrogen propulsion, engine technology, supersonic operations and environmental measurement.
Some of the initiatives will seek to identify new methods and procedures to produce sustainable aviation fuels with reduced life cycle emissions and costs.
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