As Organisations and people all over the globe started to calculate their carbon footprints, the apparent incorporations are transport, home heating, power – and afterward, worldwide travel. It’s arguably one of the best supporters of greenhouse gas emissions, yet likewise, one of the hardest emitters to calculate accurately.
The flight emission calculator quantifies the direct and indirect CO2-equivalent emissions per passenger for a given flight distance. The estimated emissions represent an average value for the distance between a given pair of origin and destination airports. The quantification is based on the most recent international statistics on passenger and cargo loads and aircraft type usage. The estimated emissions per passenger represent the amount of CO2 equivalents to be reduced in climate-carbon offset projects.
The following factors were used to calculate Flight Co2 Emission:
- Flight Distance
- Fuel consumption per aircraft per kilometer
- Co2 emissions and fuel pre-production
- Allocation to the cargo load
- Co2 emissions per passenger
- Cabin class weighting scheme
- Accounting for non-Co2 effects of aviation
- Aircraft and infrastructure emissions
We calculated emissions for both long and short-haul flights using the above factors. The following formula is used to calculate the total CO2-equivalent emissions:
𝑬 =𝒂��𝟐 +𝒃𝒙+𝒄∗(𝟏−𝑪𝑭)∗ 𝑪𝑾∗(𝑬𝑭∗𝑴+𝑷)+𝐀𝐅∗𝐱+𝐀 𝑺∗𝑷𝑳𝑭
with
E: CO2-eq emissions per passenger [kg]
x: Flight Distance [km] which is defined as the sum of GCD, the great circle distance, and DC, a distance correction for detours and holding patterns, and inefficiencies in the air traffic control systems [km]
S: Average number of seats (total across all cabin classes)
PLF: Passenger load factor
CF: Cargo factor
CW: Cabin class weighting factor
EF: CO2 emission factor for jet fuel combustion (kerosene)
M: Multiplier accounting for potential non-CO2 effects
P: CO2e emission factor for preproduction jet fuel, kerosene
AF: Aircraft factor
A: Airport infrastructure emissions
The part ax2 + bx + c is a nonlinear approximation of f(x) + LTO
LTO: Fuel consumption during landing and takeoff cycle, including taxi [kg]
Short-haul has defined as x<1500km and long-haul as x>2500km. In between, a linear interpolation is used.
Many significant aircraft have developed carbon calculators to give travelers an expected individual carbon attribution before booking their flight.
Aviation at present accounts for 2.4% of all global CO2 emissions. Different Organizations/ industries, however, are starting to lessen their reliance on petroleum or fuel products, with renewable sources becoming progressively accessible and more cost-effective. As flying is an industry that can’t yet execute the change to additional renewable sources, it risks accounting for a steadily developing portion of global CO2 emissions.
To calculate the fuel burn of flight, Four parameters can be used:
- The model of Plane
- Engine models that are installed on that plane,
- Great-circle distance of the flight,
- Airport from where the plane took off and destination airport
If the flight connecting (i.e., a combination of flights) has more than one flight, we use all the above parameters for each flight.
Currently, there are no globally adopted systems for estimating flight emissions. Until a global standard comes, associations must use their formulas and techniques to estimate flight carbon emissions. Because of the basic suppositions in separate carbon computation procedures, no two carbon calculators will deliver a similar outcome.
At AHDUS TECHNOLOGY, we are glad to reveal our carbon flight emission estimation procedures, as illustrated in this article. With informed information, we can all influence decreasing our ecological impact.
