Exploring an innovative design for sustainable urban water management and energy conservation

Zhang, Stephen X.; Pramanik, Niranjan; Buurman, Joost

doi:10.1080/13504509.2013.820224

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“…Rainwater harvesting using permeable pavements has enhanced the Sustainable Urban Drainage System techniques with energy applications before rainwater is reused, by introducing GSHP systems . Many researches have demonstrated the potential of integrating permeable pavements with GSHP and underground water storage to reduce runoff peaks, store water, treat pollutants, lower heat island effect, and harvest energy from the heated pavement. Tota‐Maharaj and Scholz presented effective application of ANN for analyzing the performance of combined permeable pavement and GSHP system.…”

Section: Technologies Of Energy Harvesting From Pavements and Roadwaysmentioning

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Energy harvesting from pavements and roadways: A comprehensive review of technologies, materials, and challenges

2019

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Summary Energy harvesting from pavements has been a topic of extensive research in the recent past. This domain has attracted not only the research community but also the industry and governmental authorities. The various sources exploited for energy harvesting from pavements and roadways are solar radiation, mechanical energy dissipated due to moving vehicles and pedestrians, geothermal energy, rainwater, and wind. This article presents an exhaustive and updated review of all potential means of energy harvesting from these sources. Following the introductory section, the article sequentially covers the energy harvesting methods and their research progress, materials, development of practical systems, commercial status, comparison of technologies, challenges, and concluding remarks. This study reveals that there is wide scope for further research and feasibility studies, which could lead to a wide‐spread implementation of the various technologies for energy harvesting from pavements and roads.

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Section: Technologies Of Energy Harvesting From Pavements and Roadwaysmentioning

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Energy harvesting from pavements and roadways: A comprehensive review of technologies, materials, and challenges

2019

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“…Typically, permeable pavements have the interconnected voids of 15%∼35% by volume [118], with a significant hydraulic benefit of reducing 90% of the peak runoff volume [119][120][121]. ese applications contribute to enhancing water sustainability management by reusing the urban runoff but also in improving the energy conservation by collecting wasted energy from pavements [84,[122][123][124].…”

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The State of the Art: Application of Green Technology in Sustainable Pavement

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Lü

Cheng

et al. 2018

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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A wide range of literature on predominant green technologies for sustainable pavements is summarized in this paper. It covers two major aspects: energy harvesting technologies and permeable pavement systems. Fundamental mechanics of energy harvesting techniques and possible designs of energy harvesters are described, with the evaluation of energy conversion efficiency, and advantages and disadvantages. In addition, the designs of permeable pavement systems are discussed, along with their advantages and disadvantages. The latest technical innovations are highlighted. It is found that green technologies are promising for developing more sustainable pavements. Application issues are also pointed out, including construction challenges, durability, and life-cycle cost-benefit assessment. Future research directions are suggested to address practical challenges, such as efficient design, construction challenge, timely maintenance, and life-cycle performance assessment.

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“…At present, this task is labor-intensive as shown in Figure 1a that adds more difficulties in subsurface sewer lines like inaccessible areas with poor lighting, ventilation and safety concerns associated with insect bites. The cross-section of the drainage system with the approximate symmetric design shown in Figure 1b are widely found in Singapore [1]. The width, W, of these drainages typically range from 1.1 to 1.8 m, w from 0.2-0.8 m and the height h between 0.3-1.1 m. Thus, there is a requirement to design the robot to traverse inside this type of drainage systems.…”

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Tarantula: Design, Modeling, and Kinematic Identification of a Quadruped Wheeled Robot

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This paper firstly presents the design and modeling of a quadruped wheeled robot named Tarantula. It has four legs each having four degrees of freedom with a proximal end attached to the trunk and the wheels for locomotion connected at the distal end. The two legs in the front and two at the back are actuated using two motors which are placed inside the trunk for simultaneous abduction or adduction. It is designed to manually reconfigure its topology as per the cross-sections of the drainage system. The bi-directional suspension system is designed using a single damper to prevent the trunk and inside components from shock. Formulation for kinematics of the wheels that is coupled with the kinematics of each leg is presented. We proposed the cost-effective method which is also an on-site approach to estimate the kinematic parameters and the effective trunk dimension after assembly of the quadruped robot using the monocular camera and ArUco markers instead of high-end devices like a laser tracker or coordinate measurement machine. The measurement technique is evaluated experimentally and the same set up was used for trajectory tracking of the Tarantula. The experimental method for the kinematic identification presented here can be easily extended to the other mobile robots with serial architecture designed legs.

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Exploring an innovative design for sustainable urban water management and energy conservation

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Energy harvesting from pavements and roadways: A comprehensive review of technologies, materials, and challenges

Energy harvesting from pavements and roadways: A comprehensive review of technologies, materials, and challenges

The State of the Art: Application of Green Technology in Sustainable Pavement

Tarantula: Design, Modeling, and Kinematic Identification of a Quadruped Wheeled Robot

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