A novel paradigm for a sustainable mobility based on electric vehicles, photovoltaic panels and electric energy storage systems: Case studies for Naples and Salerno (Italy)

Calise, Francesco; Cappiello, Francesco Liberato; Cartenì, Armando; d’Accadia, Massimo Dentice; Vicidomini, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2019.05.022

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“…In the electric vehicle market, the electric storage capability and its high investment cost is the bottleneck that limits the development of electrical vehicles [140]. Calise et al [141] presented a thermo-economic analysis for combining electric energy storage (EES) system and photovoltaic energy considering the environmental impact, which suggests a novel sustainable mobility goal. After introducing EES systems with lead-acid and lithium-ion battery schemes, the amount of electrical energy transported from the public grid is reduced by 12% and 19%, respectively.…”

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Recent Advances in Technology, Strategy and Application of Sustainable Energy Systems

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The global COVID-19 pandemic has had strong impacts on national and international freight, construction and tourism industry, supply chains, and has resulted in a rapid decline in the demand for traditional energy sources. In fact, research has outlined that urban areas depend on global supply chains for their day-to-day basic functions, including energy supplies, food and safe access to potable water. The disruption of global supply chains can leave many urban areas in a very vulnerable position, in which their citizens may struggle to obtain their basic supplies, as the COVID-19 crisis has recently shown. Therefore, solutions aiming to enhance local food, water and energy production systems, even in urban environments, have to be pursued. The COVID-19 crisis has also highlighted in the scientific community the problem of people’s exposure to outdoor and indoor pollution, confirmed as a key element for the increase both in the transmission and severity of the contagion, on top of involving health risks on their own. In this context, most nations are going to adopt new preferential policies to stimulate the development of relevant sustainable energy industries, based on the electrification of the systems supplied by renewable energy sources as confirmed by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Thus, while there is ongoing research focusing on a COVID 19 vaccine, there is also a need for researchers to work cooperatively on novel strategies for world economic recovery incorporating renewable energy policy, technology and management. In this framework, the Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) conference provides a good platform for researchers and other experts to exchange their academic thoughts, promoting the development and improvements on the renewable energy technologies as well as their role in systems and in the transition towards sustainable energy systems. The 14th SDEWES Conference was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It brought together around 570 researchers from 55 countries in the field of sustainable development. The present Special Issue of Energies, specifically dedicated to the 14th SDEWES Conference, focuses on four main fields: energy policy for sustainable development, biomass energy application, building energy saving, and power plant and electric systems.

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“…Finally, the proposed system is equipped with an ESS based on the lithium-ion technology. The ESS assumed for this model is the Renault Zoe ZE nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) lithium-ion battery (LIB) [23], consisting of 63.35 Ah rated capacity cells [23]. In particular, the rated capacity of the battery is 45.56 kWh, while the rated voltage is 360 V (Table 3).…”

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“…In conclusion, in order to prevent this problem, many literature works ( [19,21,22]) suggest limiting the discharge/charge power with respect to the maximum value (assumed equal to the power required to fully charge/discharge the battery in one hour). Therefore, the maximum allowed discharging/charging power is assumed to be equal to the power that would discharge/charge the battery in 4.5 h, in order to achieve a battery life of 10 years [23].…”

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Thermo-Economic Analysis of Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Polygeneration Plants in Different Configurations

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This work presents a thermoeconomic comparison between two different solar energy technologies, namely the evacuated flat-plate solar collectors and the photovoltaic panels, integrated as auxiliary systems into two renewable polygeneration plants. Both plants produce electricity, heat and cool, and are based on a 6 kWe organic Rankine cycle (ORC), a 17-kW single-stage H2O/LiBr absorption chiller, a geothermal well at 96 °C, a 200 kWt biomass auxiliary heater, a 45.55 kWh lithium-ion battery and a 25 m2 solar field. In both configurations, electric and thermal storage systems are included to mitigate the fluctuations due to the variability of solar radiation. ORC is mainly supplied by the thermal energy produced by the geothermal well. Additional heat is also provided by solar thermal collectors and by a biomass boiler. In an alternative layout, solar thermal collectors are replaced by photovoltaic panels, producing additional electricity with respect to the one produced by the ORC. To reduce ORC condensation temperature and increase the electric efficiency, a ground-cooled condenser is also adopted. All the components included in both plants were accurately simulated in a TRNSYS environment using dynamic models validated versus literature and experimental data. The ORC is modeled by zero-dimensional energy and mass balances written in Engineering Equation Solver and implemented in TRNSYS. The models of both renewable polygeneration plants are applied to a suitable case study, a commercial area near Campi Flegrei (Naples, South Italy), a location well-known for its geothermal sources and good solar availability. The economic results suggest that for this kind of plant, photovoltaic panels show lower pay back periods than evacuated flat-plate solar collectors, 13 years vs 15 years. The adoption of the electric energy storage system leads to an increase of energy-self-sufficiency equal to 42% and 47% for evacuated flat-plate solar collectors and the photovoltaic panels, respectively.

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“…They claim that the above system could be established anywhere in Bangladesh. Calise et al [26] propose a novel sustainable mobility scheme where the system consists of a PV panel connected with lead-acid batteries and lithium-ion batteries. It is observed that the sustainable system can avoid the burden of 12% and 19% for EVs demand.…”

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Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles

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Existing DC fast-charging stations are experiencing power quality issues such as high harmonics in the line current, poor power factor in the input supply, and overloading of distribution transformers, due to the dynamic behavior of charging patterns when it is connected to the power grid. Most of the recent works involve the usage of renewable energy sources to mitigate the issues on the distribution grid. In order to design a mobile plug and play DC fast charging station, solar energy is the best and viable solution to carry out. In this paper, plug and play solar photovoltaic power plant to charge electric vehicles (EVs) is proposed and modelled using MATLAB/Simulink software. The proposed system can act as a mobile power plant. The controller allows the system to charge the battery, whenever there is abundant solar energy. Incoming EVs will be charged directly from the system battery where the charger acts as a rapid charging system. The proposed system can meet the concept of Solar Photovoltaic Rapid Charging Stations (SPRCS), which shows that 80% of charge can be fed to an EV in 10.25 s.

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A novel paradigm for a sustainable mobility based on electric vehicles, photovoltaic panels and electric energy storage systems: Case studies for Naples and Salerno (Italy)

Cited by 71 publications

References 76 publications

Recent Advances in Technology, Strategy and Application of Sustainable Energy Systems

Recent Advances in Technology, Strategy and Application of Sustainable Energy Systems

Thermo-Economic Analysis of Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Polygeneration Plants in Different Configurations

Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles

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