GMU Masters Project- Spring 2013

Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department

Course Professors: Dr. Andrew Loerch and Dr. Philip Barry

Project Sponsor: Dr. Lance Sherry 

An Analysis of Alternative Jet Fuel Supply for Manassas Airport

 

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AAR.  2012.  The Cost Effectiveness of America’s Freight Railroads.  June 2012.  Association of American Railroads (AAR).  Retrieved from https://www.aar.org/keyissues/Documents/Background-Papers/The-Cost-Effectiveness-of-Freight.pdf.

 

ACRP.  2012.  ACRP Report 60 – Guidelines for Integrating Alternative Jet Fuel into the Airport Setting.     Airport Cooperative Research Program.  Transportation Research Board.  Washington, DC.

 

Akaike, H. (1974).A new look at the statistical model identification, IEEE Transactions on Automatic.         

control AC-19: 716-723.

 

AirNav.  2013.  Aviation Fuel.  AirNav, LLC.  Retrieved from http://airnav.com/fuel/.

 

Allabaugh, Richard. Manassas Regional Airport.  Personal Communication on 2013 February 21.

 

Alpert, Emily.  2012 August 31.  Corn, soybean prices at all-time high worldwide, World Bank says.  Los Angeles Times.  Retrieved from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/08/the-cost-of-corn-and-soybeans-soared-to-all-time-heights-in-july-pushing-global-food-prices-upwards-and-pushing-budgets-to.html.

 

ARPA-E.  2013.  Advanced Energy Research Project Grant.  U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency.  Retrieved from http://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=faq.

 

ASTM.  2011 July 1.  ASTM Aviation Fuel Standard Now Specifies Bio-derived Components.  ASTM Release #8908.  Retrieved from http://www.astmnewsroom.org/default.aspx?pageid=2524.

 

AviationDB.  2012.  Fuel as a Percentage of Operating Expense by Carrier Report.  Retrieved from http://www.aviationdb.com/Aviation/FuelExpenseByCarrier.shtm.

 

Berry, Jolene.  Manassas Regional Airport.  Personal Communication on 2013 February 15.

 

Bureau of Labor Statistics.  2013.  Consumer Price Index.  U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Division of Consumer Prices and Price Indexes.  Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.toc.htm.

 

Byogy Renewables.  2009.  Byogy Renewables, Inc.  San Jose, CA.  Retrieved from http://www.byogy.com/abt/index.html.

 

C2ES.  2013.  Transportation Overview – U.S. Emissions.  Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.  Retrieved from http://www.c2es.org/energy/use/transportation.

 

CAAFI.  2013.  Glossary.  Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative.  Retrieved from http://www.caafi.org/resources/glossary.html.

 

Carroll, Joe.  2013 March 8.  Exxon At Least 25 Years Away From Making Fuel From Algae.  Bloomberg.  Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-08/exxon-at-least-25-years-away-from-making-fuel-from-algae.html.

 

Center for Sustainability.  2011.  National Biodiesel Day honors America’s advanced biofuel.  Retrieved from http://www.centerforsustainability.org/pdfs/pubs/April_2011.htm

 

Chisti, Yusuf.  2007 February 13.  Biodiesel from Microalgae.  Biotechnology Advances 25 (2007) 294 – 306.  Retrieved from http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ychisti/Biodiesel.pdf.

 

City of Manassas.  2012.  City of Manassas Zoning Map.  IT/Enterprise GIS Group.  2012 April 19.  Retrieved from http://www.manassascity.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/4084.

 

DEQ.  2012.  Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.  National Environmental Policy Act document reviews.  July 2012.  Retrieved from http://www.deq.state.va.us/Programs/EnvironmentalImpactReview/NEPADocumentReviews.aspx.

 

DOE.  2013.  Alternative Fuels Data Center.  U.S. Department of Energy.  Retrieved from http://www.afdc.energy.gov/.

 

EAA.  2013.  Jet Fuel D-1655 Specifications.  Experimental Aircraft Association.  Retrieved from http://www.eaa.org/autofuel/jetfuel/d1655_specs.asp.

 

EIA.  2012.  Biofuels Issues and Trends.  October 2012.  U.S. Energy Information Agency.  Retrieved from http://www.eia.gov/biofuels/issuestrends/pdf/bit.pdf.

 

EPA.  2013.  Renewable Fuel Standard.  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/renewablefuels/index.htm.

 

FAA.  2007.  Environmental Desk Reference for Airport Actions.  U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Airports.  Retrieved from http://www.faa.gov/airports/environmental/environmental_desk_ref/media/desk_ref_chap1.pdf.

 

FAA.  2011.  Fact Sheet – FAA Forecast Fact Sheet – Fiscal Years 2011-31.  Retrieved from http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=12440.

 

 

FAA.  2012.  Navigation Programs - Lighting Systems – MALSR.  U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization.  2012 August 24.  Retrieved from http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/techops/navservices/lsg/malsr/.

 

FAA.  2013a.  Air Traffic Activity Data System.  U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Operations and Performance Data.  Retrieved from http://aspm.faa.gov/opsnet/sys/Main.asp.

 

FAA.  2013b.  Manassas Regional Airport ILS or LOC RWY 16L.  May 02, 2013 to May 30, 2013.  Retrieved from http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1305/05326IL16L.PDF.

 

FAA Order 1050.1E.  2006.  U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Order 1050.1E, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures.  Effective March 20, 2006.  Retrieved from http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/order/energy_orders/1050-1E.pdf.

 

Gary, J. H., Handwerk, G. E.  Petroleum Refining Technology and Economics.  Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 4th edition, 2001.

 

Goldenberg, Suzanne.  2010 February 13.  Algae to solve the Pentagon’s jet fuel problem.  The Guardian.  Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/13/algae-solve-pentagon-fuel-problem.

 

Google Maps.  2013.  Retrieved from https://maps.google.com/.

 

Hurvich CM, Tsai CL. Regression and time series model selection in small

        samples. Biometrika.1989;76:297–307.

 

IATA.  2013.  Financial Forecast – March 2013.  International Air Transport Association  Retrieved from http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/Documents/economics/Industry-Outlook-Financial-Forecast-March-2013.pdf

 

Index Mundi.  2013.  IndexMundi Web site.  Retrieved from http://www.indexmundi.com.

 

McDill, Stuart.  2009 February 10.  Can algae save the world – again?  Thomson Reuters.  Retrieved from http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/10/us-biofuels-algae-idUSTRE5196HB20090210?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0.

 

Miller, Bruno.  Biofuels expert.  Personal Communication on 2013 April 18.

 

Murphy’s Machines.  2013.  ASTM D6751 Biodiesel Quality Testing.  Retrieved from http://www.murphysmachines.com/astmtest.html.

 

NIFA.  2011.  Biomass Research and Development Initiative.  U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture.  Retrieved from http://www.biomassboard.gov/pdfs/2011_brdi_foa.pdf.

 

Pacific Biodiesel.  2013.  History of Biodiesel Fuel.  Retrieved from http://www.biodiesel.com/index.php/biodiesel/history_of_biodiesel_fuel

 

PARTNER.  2009.  Near-Term Feasibility of Alternative Jet Fuels.  Project 17 – Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction.  Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/partner/reports/proj17/altfuelfeasrpt.pdf.

 

PARTNER.  2010.  Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Alternative Jet Fuels.  Project 28 – Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction.  Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/partner/reports/proj28/partner-proj28-2010-001.pdf.

 

Pearlson, M. N. (2011).  A Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Hydroprocessed Renewable Distillate Fuels.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

 

Perdue Agribusiness.  2013.  Perdue AgriBusiness Oilseeds Processing.  Retrieved from https://www.perdueagribusiness.com/.

 

PWCA.  2013.  The Occoquan Reservoir.  Prince William Conservation Alliance.  Retrieved from http://www.pwconserve.org/issues/occoquan/.

 

Redden, Quinn.  2013a.  APP Jet Center.  Personal Communication on 2013 February 15.

 

Redden, Quinn.  2013b. APP Jet Center.  Personal Communication on 2013 March 12.

 

Redfin.  2013.  Land Property for Sale near Manassas Regional Airport on April 1, 2013.  Retrieved from http://www.redfin.com/.

 

Renewable Energy Institute.  2005. ASTM D 6751.  Retrieved from http://www.astmd6751.com/.

 

Renewable Jet Fuels.  2013.  Key Acronyms and Terms.  Renewable Jet Fuels.  Retrieved from http://renewablejetfuels.org/what-we-do/the-basics#terminology. 

 

Schwartz, H. (1978).Estimating the dimension of a model, Ann. Of Statist., (1978), pp. 461-464 

 

Shapiro, S. S. & Wilk, M. B. (1965). An analysis of variance test for normality (complete

samples). Biometrika, 52, 591-611.

 

 

Shummway, Robert H., and David S. StofferTime Series Analysis and Its Applications. New York:

Springer-Verlag, 2000.

 

 

Solazyme.  2011.  Solazyme Announces First U.S. Commercial Passenger Flight on Advanced Biofuel.  Press release on 2011 November 7.  Retrieved from http://solazyme.com/media/2011-11-07.

 

USDA.  2013.  Natural Resources Conservation Service.  PLANTS.  Alternative Crops.  Retrieved from http://plants.usda.gov/alt_crops.html.

 

United Nations.  2013.  Kyoto Protocol.  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.  Retrieved from http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php.

 

Wagner, Steve.  2011.  Renewable Identification Numbers (RINS).  Merrick & Company.  Retrieved from http://www.merrick.com/merrickandcompany/media/Resources/Energy/Presentation/Renewable-Indentification-Numbers-Merrick-Wagner.pdf.