Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic fuel tankering
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Application No.: US17400645Application Date: 2021-08-12
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Publication No.: US11674837B2Publication Date: 2023-06-13
- Inventor: Jose Fregnani , Italo Romani de Oliveira , Glaucia Balvedi
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: G01F22/00
- IPC: G01F22/00 ; G06F17/12 ; G06Q50/06 ; G06Q10/0631 ; G01F9/00

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamically calculating a total fuel uplift quantity for an aircraft scheduled to fly a flight route. In one aspect, a method comprises: (a) polling a plurality of sources to receive data indicative of: (i) real-time weather conditions in remaining flight sectors in the flight route, and (ii) delay information in the remaining sectors; (b) calculating for the remaining sectors a respective fuel consumption factor; (c) based on (i) respective fuel quotations in the remaining sectors, (ii) the real-time weather conditions, and (iii) the delay information, generating a linear model for calculating a respective fuel uplift quantity at arrival stations in the remaining sectors; (d) calculating using the linear model the respective fuel uplift quantity at the arrival stations; and (e) periodically performing operations (a)-(d) to update a calculation of the respective fuel uplift quantities to account for changing factors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210372839A1 DYNAMIC FUEL TANKERING Public/Granted day:2021-12-02
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