2014 ASCENT COE Projects

NOI Request Summary as of February 28, 2015

Title Area Funding Selection

1 Alternative Jet Fuel Supply Chain Analysis Alt fuels - 

Analysis $ 1,770,000 

WSU, Purdue, 

U.Illinois, MIT, 

U.Tenn, and PSU

2 Ambient Conditions Corrections for Non-Volatile PM Emissions Measurements Emissions $ 2,300,000 MS&T

3 Noise Impact Health Research Noise $ 200,000 BU

4 Understanding and Estimating Aircraft Noise Transmission Indoors Noise $ 150,000 GT, UW

5 Noise emission and propagation modeling Noise $ 212,000 PSU, PU

6 Rotorcraft Noise Abatement Operating Conditions Modeling Operations / 

Noise

 $ 250,000 PSU

7 Civil, supersonic over flight, sonic boom (noise) standards development Noise $ 100,000 PSU

8 Noise Outreach Noise $ 30,000 PSU

9 Aviation Noise Impact on Children’s Learning Noise $ - None

10 Aircraft Technology Modeling and Assessment Tools $ 550,000 GT, Stanford, Purdue

11 Rapid Fleet-wide Environmental Assessment Capability Tools $ 600,000 GT, MIT

12 Aircraft Design and Performance Assessment Tool Enhancement Tools $ 90,000 Stanford

13 ACCESS 2 Micro Physical Modeling with NASA

Alt Fuels - 

Analysis / 

Emissions

 $ 200,000 Stanford

14 CO2 Standard Technical Analysis Support Emissions $ 720,000 MIT and GT

15 Cruise Altitude and Speed Optimization Operations $ 150,000 MIT

16

Investigation and Support of Integration of Departure Metering Concepts into Surface 

Capabilities Operations $ 170,000 MIT

17 Aviation Noise Impact on Sleep Noise $ 103,000 U. Penn

18 Health Impacts Quantification for Aviation Air Quality Tools Emissions $ 150,000 BU

19

Development of Aviation Air Quality Tools for Airport-Specific Impact Assessment: Air Quality 

Modeling Emissions $ 200,000 UNC

20 Development of NAS wide and Global Rapid Aviation Air Quality Tools Emissions $ 150,000 MIT

21 Improving Climate Policy Analysis Tools 

Alt Fuels - 

Analysis / 

Emissions

 $ 150,000 MIT

22 Evaluation of FAA Climate Tools Emissions $ 150,000 U.Illinois

23 Analytical Approach for Quantifying Noise from Advanced Operational Procedures Operations / 

Noise

 $ 220,000 MIT, PSU

24 Emissions Data Analysis for CLEEN, ACCESS, and Other Recent Tests Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 245,000 PSU, MIT

25 NPCJF Area 1- Chemical Kinetic Combustion Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 330,000 Stanford

26 NPCJF Area2 -Chemical Kinetic Modeling Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 200,000 Stanford

27 NPCJF Area 3 - Advanced Combustion Test Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 470,000 GT, OSU, U.Illinois

28 NPCJF Area 4 - Combustion Modeling Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 450,000 GT, Stanford, UDRI

29 NPCJF Area 5 -Atomization Testing

Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 350,000 Purdue, Stanford

30 NPCJF Area 6 - Referee Swirl Stabilized Combustor Evaluation Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 350,000 UDRI, U.Illinois

31 Alternative Jet Fuel Test and Evaluation Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 400,000 UDRI, WSU

32

Worldwide Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Petroleum Jet 

Fuel

Alt fuels - 

Analysis $ 150,000 MIT

33 Alt jet fuel test data library Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 100,000 UDRI, U. Illinois

34 NJFCP Area 7 - Coordination Alt fuels - 

Testing

 $ 100,000 UDRI, U. Illinois

Total: $ 11,760,000