[064] MONITORING BREATHING AIR QUALITY OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFT VIA A REAL-TIME AIR QUALITY SENSOR SUITE DURING FLIGHT

摘要

INTRODUCTION: Air quality data are not currently available on the quality of the breathing air supplied to the pilot. This work targets this capability gap by presenting a real-time air quality sensor (RTAQS) suite package for oxygen, carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and hydrocarbon volatiles, with environmental sensors for temperature, pressure, and humidity. A removable sampling media cartridge was included to provide a capability for more comprehensive contaminant testing using laboratory based gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for each sortie. The results reflect follow-on work from our initial laboratory-based testing of RTAQS to validate whether the sensor package will perform adequately under the extreme conditions encountered in the aerospace environment and to identify areas for improvement in future design iterations.