[2] A pressure-node based dynamic model for simulation and control of aircraft air-conditioning systems. Energy (2023). [3] Simulation of an aircraft environmental control system .

Air-con systems are supposed to last 18 months but dirt levels have cut it down to four months . Airlines may not have seen the last of the ash cloud crisis, experts said on Sunday.

“On hot and relatively humid days, cold air from the aircraft’s air conditioning system mixes with the warmer, humid cabin air and lowers it to the dew point, creating fog,” a Federal ...