In 2004, the FAA's Office of Regulation and Certification established a National Center of Excellence (COE) for Airliner Cabin Environment Research, which in 2007 was broadened and renamed to the National Air Transportation COE for Research in the Intermodal Transport Environment (ACERite). The ACERite COE brought together airliner cabin environment expertise from academic, industry, and government organizations.

Over the next decade, the FAA sponsored numerous cabin air environment research projects. Key research included: 1) health and safety effects of the airline cabin environment on passengers and crewmembers, 2) the efficiency and effectiveness of aircraft environmental control systems, and 3) the study of emerging technologies with the potential to eliminate bleed air contaminants and purify aircraft air supplies.

The resources listed originated from Airline Cabin Environment Research (ACER)

• Bleed-Air Sensing: Wireless Sensor Networks in Mock-up Cabin (PDF, 2.9 MB)
• Development and Validation of the Method for the Detection of Tricresyl Phosphates by GC/MS (PDF, 430 KB)
• Effects of Hydrogen Peroxide on Common Aviation Textiles (PDF, 2 MB)
• Exposure to Flame Retardants in Commercial Aircraft (PDF, 606 KB)
• Field Evaluation of Whole Airliner Decontamination Technologies - Wide-Body Aircraft With Dual-Use Application for Railcars (PDF, 707 KB)
• Field Evaluation of Whole Airliner Decontamination Technologies for Narrow-Body Aircraft (PDF, 387 KB)
• Health Effects of Aircraft Cabin Pressure In Older and Vulnerable Passengers (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• In-Flight/Onboard Monitoring: ACER's Component for ASHRAE 1262, Part 2 (PDF, 1.9 MB)
• Inactivating Influenza Viruses on Surfaces Using Hydrogen Peroxide or Triethylene Glycol at Low Vapor Concentrations (PDF, 570 KB)
• Infectious Disease Transmission in Airliner Cabins (PDF, 9.3 MB)
• Ozone in Passenger Cabins: Concentrations and Chemistry (PDF, 613 KB)
• Ozone Initiated Chemistry and Its Impact on Cabin Air Quality (PDF, 7.8 MB)
• Presentation - What can we learn from measuring contaminants on recirculation filters? (PDF, 427 KB)
• Presentation - Bleed Air Contaminant Particulate Measurements (PDF, 2.2 MB)
• Presentation - Portable In-flight Recorder and Particle Sensing (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• Presentation - Risk to Ozone and ozone-derived oxidation products on commercial aircraft (PDF, 5.9 MB)
• Proposed Test Plans for a Study of Bleed Air Quality in Commercial Airliners (PDF, 620 KB)
• Quantifying Exposure to Pesticides on Commercial Aircraft (PDF, 850 KB)
• Report to the FAA on the Airliner Cabin Environment (PDF, 3.4 MB)
• Sensors and Prognostics to Mitigate Bleed Air Contamination Events (PDF, 2.6 MB)