Numerical Investigation of Harvesting Solar Energy and Anti-Icing Road Surfaces Using a Hydronic Heating Pavement and Borehole Thermal Energy Storage

Mirzanamadi, Raheb; Hagentoft, Carl-Eric; Johansson, Pär

doi:10.3390/en11123443

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“…On the Science Direct search platform, a total of 43 articles were found and in the MDPI, 8 articles were selected [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], all of them fitting into the theme proposed by this research. On other platforms, 22 articles were found using the two selected keywords.…”

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Review of Energy Harvesting for Buildings Based on Solar Energy and Thermal Materials

Sucupira

Castro-Gomes

2021

CivilEng

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Reducing the use of fossil fuels and the generation of renewable energy have become extremely important in today. A climatic emergency is being experienced and society is suffering due to a high incidence of pollutants. For these reasons, energy harvesting emerges as an essential source of renewable energy, and it benefits from the advancement in the scope of solar and thermal energy which are widely abundant and usually wasted. It is an option to obtain energy without damaging the environment. Recently, energy harvesting devices, which produce electricity, have been attracting more and more attention due to the availability of new sources of energy, such as solar, thermal, wind and mechanical. This article looks at recent developments in capturing energy from the sun. This literature review was performed on research platforms and analyzes studies on solar and thermal energy capture carried out in the last four years. The methods of capturing solar energy were divided according to how they were applied in civil engineering works. The types of experiments carried out were the most diverse, and several options for capturing solar energy were obtained. The advantages and disadvantages of each method were demonstrated, as well as the need for further studies. The results showed that the materials added to the components obtained have a lot of advantages and could be used in different energy capture types, such as photovoltaic, thermoelectric generators, pyroelectricity and thermometrical. This demonstrates that the capture of solar energy is quite viable, and greater importance should be given to it, as the number of research is still small when compared to other renewable energies.

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“…The floor can also capture clean electrical energy through the piping inserted into the floor and uses the heat collected from the floor to raise the liquid's temperature in the pipe. The energy generation is obtained by the temperature difference between the hot liquid and the tube's cold liquid [7,30,66,71,74].…”

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Review of Energy Harvesting for Buildings Based on Solar Energy and Thermal Materials

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Castro-Gomes

2021

CivilEng

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“…Hillshade is the factor that represents spatial information and is calculated by DEM [10,11]. This factor accelerates road icing by preventing solar radiation from reaching the ground [12,13].…”

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“…The amount of vapor (V) in Equation ( 11) is obtained using Equation (13). P v is the vapor pressure and T a is the air temperature [49].…”

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System Dynamics Modeling for Estimating the Locations of Road Icing Using GIS

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Lee²,

Kim

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Applied Sciences

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Road icing can cause large traffic accidents on highways because, unlike snowy roads, its location is difficult to identify and it can occur rapidly, even during rainy weather. In this study, the amount and location of road icing were modeled and simulated over time based on the system dynamics theory. The simulation is expressed on the geographic information system (GIS) and facilitates advance detection of the location and amount of road icing that occurs unexpectedly unlike previous studies. Modeling was designed to process spatial and meteorological data after combining them. The spatial data used for modeling were Hillshade, Water System, Bridge, and Road (Highway). Air temperature, cloudiness, vapor pressure, wind speed, and precipitation were used as meteorological data. The amount of road icing was estimated by scientifically designing the parameters related to its occurrence between spatial and meteorological data. Based on this, the amount of road icing by location was simulated per 1m2 using the GIS. The simulation results showed that the amount of road icing that began to increase from AM 08:00 reached its peak (an average of 213.62 g/m2) at noon and then slowly decreased. Additionally, when simulated with GIS, the sum amount of road icing between AM 12:00 and PM 13:00 was a maximum of 1707.292 (g/14 h) and a minimum of 360.082 (g/14 h) for each location. Hypothesis testing was conducted on whether road icing significantly occurs at actual points vulnerable to traffic accidents. Based on the results, the average significance level was calculated to be less than 0.05. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis that the model can estimate road icing in vulnerable areas was adopted. The verified simulation can be useful data to government agencies (e.g., road traffic authority) in their programs to prevent traffic accidents caused by road icing.

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Dynamic Anti‐Icing Surfaces (DAIS)

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Remarkable progress has been made in surface icephobicity in the recent years. The mainstream standpoint of the reported antiicing surfaces yet only considers the ice-substrate interface and its adjacent regions being of static nature. In reality, the local structures and the overall properties of ice-substrate interfaces evolve with time, temperature and various external stimuli. Understanding the dynamic properties of the icing interface is crucial for shedding new light on the design of new anti-icing surfaces to meet challenges of harsh conditions including extremely low temperature and/or long working time. This article surveys the state-of-the-art anti-icing surfaces and dissects their dynamic changes of the chemical/physical states at icing interface. According to the focused critical ice-substrate contacting locations, namely the most important ice-substrate interface and the adjacent regions in the substrate and in the ice, the available anti-icing surfaces are for the first time re-assessed by taking the dynamic evolution into account. Subsequently, the recent works in the preparation of dynamic anti-icing surfaces (DAIS) that consider time-evolving properties, with their potentials in practical applications, and the challenges confronted are summarized and discussed, aiming for providing a thorough review of the promising concept of DAIS for guiding the future icephobic materials designs.

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Numerical Investigation of Harvesting Solar Energy and Anti-Icing Road Surfaces Using a Hydronic Heating Pavement and Borehole Thermal Energy Storage

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

Review of Energy Harvesting for Buildings Based on Solar Energy and Thermal Materials

Review of Energy Harvesting for Buildings Based on Solar Energy and Thermal Materials

System Dynamics Modeling for Estimating the Locations of Road Icing Using GIS

Dynamic Anti‐Icing Surfaces (DAIS)

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