(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 14 - Finding solutions that demonstrate how an airport can be designed to operate completely without carbon emissions and to provide infrastructures to zero-carbon aircraft is the challenge that Aeroporti di Roma is committed to, in collaboration with the research center German DLR, the Danish Technological Institute, Copenhagen Airport (CPH), IATA, the University of Parma and 10 other European partners.
"An initiative that - underlines Aeroporti di Roma - confirms Adr's strategy increasingly oriented towards excellence in services, sustainability and innovation. The aeronautical industry is experiencing a transition that aims at the complete elimination of carbon emissions from aircraft and airports by 2050. To this end - continues Adr - the European Commission has allocated funds from its Horizon 2020 research and innovation program for the 'SmartAirports' project in which Adr participated by winning the European tender to create the airport of the future. The results of the project will have the intention of inspire the airports of the entire European continent towards a reconversion of all processes in an eco-sustainable key ".
Aeroporti di Roma, together with Copenhagen airport, will study the processes and local logistics of fuels of the future for aircraft, whether biofuels, e-fuels, hydrogen or electricity.
They will also develop the concept of Smart Energy Airport of the future, maximizing the production of energy from renewable sources, energy storage and the use of electricity for vehicular mobility to and from airports ". (ANSA).