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      <title>Impact of Facial Hair on Pilot Oxygen Mask Efficacy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently lacks modern empirical evidence to determine whether facial hair degrades the performance of contemporary pilot oxygen masks under operational emergency conditions. This creates uncertainty in FAA advisory guidance, operator policies, and potential regulatory decision-making regarding mask use, emergency procedures, and facial hair allowances.

This research will evaluate whether pilot oxygenation (SpO2) is maintained during high altitude airframe decompression events. Human subjects will complete controlled hypobaric hypoxia condition testing in the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) hypobaric chamber while first bearded and subsequently clean-shaven during quick-don oxygen mask use as tethered to a civilian aircraft oxygen system. The results will determine the impacts of facial hair on pilot oxygen mask efficacy with focus upon adequate pilot oxygenation at pressure-altitude (45,000’) that demands positive pressure gas supply and. Additionally, mask seal function will be tested at the normal cruising cabin pressure-altitude of 8,000’ to assess if smoke/fume/odor ingress is present with facial hair with focus upon preservation of oxygen gas rate of usage not to exceed the regulation that requires a minimum 15 minute supply. This research will directly inform potential revisions to 14 CFR §§, 91.211, 121.333, 121.337, 135.89, and AC120-43 as well as Technical Standard Orders TSO-C78, TSO-C89, and TSO-C99, and associated SAE oxygen system standards.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:27:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Roadway Runoff Impacts to Trout Streams Studies for MS4 Permit
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      <description><![CDATA[The objectives are to prepare and implement a study plan that evaluates the impacts of roadway runoff through Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) outfalls to trout streams with the focus on impacts to temperature and DO levels, and to determine if GDOT roadway runoff discharges are impacting trout streams and if so, to determine best management practices (BMPs) that can be used to mitigate these impacts.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:23:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Low Flow Passenger Oxygen Systems</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This research will identify performance-based, physiological metrics for oxygen delivery systems (e.g., continuous flow, pulse delivery, on-demand) and oxygen masks (e.g., passenger and crewmember). Information and analyses from this project will be used to potentially revise 14 CFR 25.1443 oxygen regulation from a prescriptive-based requirement to a performance-based requirement.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:36:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Methods for the Fast Quantifications of Oxygenated Compounds in Alternative Jet Fuels</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This research will conduct a literature review on methods for the quantification of oxygenated compounds in alternative Jet Fuels.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:22:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Determining Airfield Pavement Deicer and Anti-Icer Contributions to Airport Stormwater</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ACRP Project 02-61 identified and ranked research needs related to airport stormwater management. One of the conclusions of this review was that the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permit compliance requirements increasingly include pavement deicer constituents in stormwater discharges. As controls on aircraft deicing runoff have become more widespread and effective, focus on the relative contribution and influence of pavement deicing runoff has increased. Yet airports face significant challenges when attempting to parse out the relative contribution of airfield deicers, because the sources contributing to oxygen demand (i.e., biochemical oxygen demand [BOD] and chemical oxygen demand [COD]) cannot be easily measured. Airports therefore need a method to determine the contribution of pavement deicers and anti-icers to the total oxygen demand in stormwater.
The objective of this research is to develop a method to estimate the contributions of airfield pavement deicers and anti-icers to overall oxygen demand (BOD and COD) in stormwater discharges.
The method should:
(1) Account for sources, fate and transport of airfield pavement deicers and anti-icers;
(2) Identify and quantify airfield pavement deicers and anti-icers contained in discharged waters;
(3) Account for contributions from other non-airfield pavement-related deicers and anti-icing activities;
(4) Be adaptable to background water chemistry, various geographies, airport configurations, soils, topography, climate, weather, and hydrology;
(5) Be scalable to levels of resource availability (e.g., data, time, money, personnel, expertise); and
(6) Produce output expressed as a percentage of overall BOD and COD attributable to airfield pavement deicers and anti-icers with levels of confidence, and identify uncertainties.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:26:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Selective Catalytic Deoxygenation of Carbohydrates</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[No summary provided.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:32:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Selective Catalytic Deoxygenation of Carbohydrates</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[No summary provided.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:01:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Acquisition of a Thermo-Gravimetric Analyzer and Differential Scanning Calorimeter for Characterization of Materials used in Transportation Research</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The primary use of the Analyzer and Calorimeter will be to characterize ceramic membranes and heterogeneous catalysts currently being investigated for viability in the production of alternative fuels. One specific application is the monitoring of oxygen evolution from dense ceramic membranes to characterize oxygen stoichiometry and phase changes at different temperatures on in various oxygen environments. These ceramic membranes have applications in fuel processing reactors, oxygen sensors, and solid oxide fuel cells.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:17:27 GMT</pubDate>
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