Using Computer Simulation to Calculate the CO₂ Emission Generated from the Ground Operation of Royal Jordanian Airlines

The aim of this study is to calculate the Emission of CO<inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> Generated from the Ground Operations of Royal Jordanian Airline, using the SimaPro software package installed at the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. Carbon Dioxide (CO<inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf>) has the most significant effect among other gases generated from the aviation operations. It is the greenhouse gas that leads to a varying in the incoming and outcoming radiation and participates in the global warming effect. Primary improvements have been made in recent years related to the aircraft emissions per passenger-kilometer, such as minimizing the weight of the aircraft which result in a better fuel efficiency, as well as modify the engines of the aircraft to be less pollutant. Thus, all the improvements mentioned lead to reduce CO<inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> emission. The study shows that the calculation of all ground operations including, fuel consumed by the GS equipment, inflight used products, and used detergent and chemicals is around 520,142 ton of CO<inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf>, which needs further actions to minimize this amount of emission.