Aircraft-engine particulate matter emissions from conventional and sustainable aviation fuel combustion: comparison of measurement techniques for mass, number, and size

Corbin, Joel C.; Schripp, Tobias; Anderson, Bruce E.; Smallwood, Greg J.; LeClercq, Patrick; Crosbie, Ewan C.; Achterberg, Steven; Whitefield, Philip D.; Miake-Lye, Richard C.; Yu, Zhenhong; Freedman, Andrew; Trueblood, Max; Satterfield, David; Liu, Wenyan; Oßwald, Patrick; Robinson, Claire; Shook, Michael A.; Moore, Richard H.; Lobo, Prem

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3223-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 3223–3242, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3223-2022

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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 3223–3242, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3223-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Research article

30 May 2022

Research article | 30 May 2022

Aircraft-engine particulate matter emissions from conventional and sustainable aviation fuel combustion: comparison of measurement techniques for mass, number, and size

Joel C. Corbin et al.

Data sets

NDMAX/ECLIF2 ground measurements data Joel Corbin, Tobias Schripp, Bruce E. Anderson, Greg J. Smallwood, Patrick LeClercq, Ewan C. Crosbie, Steven Achterberg, Philip D. Whitefield, Richard C. Miake-Lye, Zhenhong Yu, Andrew Freedman, David Satterfield, Wenyan Liu, Patrick Osswald, Max Trueblood, Claire Robinson, Michael A. Shook, Richard H. Moore, and Prem Lobo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5504098

Short summary

The combustion of sustainable aviation fuels in aircraft engines produces particulate matter (PM) emissions with different properties than conventional fuels due to changes in fuel composition. Consequently, the response of various diagnostic instruments to PM emissions may be impacted. We found no significant instrument biases in terms of particle mass, number, and size measurements for conventional and sustainable aviation fuel blends despite large differences in the magnitude of emissions.