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Circular Economic Business Models
Published in Nitin Kumar Singh, Siddhartha Pandey, Himanshu Sharma, Sunkulp Goel, Green Innovation, Sustainable Development, and Circular Economy, 2020
Shivam Rai, Siddharth Shankar Rai, Rashmi Singh, Nitin Kumar Singh
Third, benefits for Indian citizens. The circular economy may help citizens in: Availing the products and services at lower costs. Availing more utility and more choices. For example, circular economy business models in the automobile industry will provide citizens more vehicle options without increasing the number of vehicles on the road (like Ola and Uber offer a different range of cars to ride to its customers). Circular economy may help citizens in reducing the problems of pollution, congestion, and ill-health. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation report (2015), more zero-emission vehicles on the road (e.g. electric vehicles) and recreating farming practices that eradicate the need for crop burning, may be able to decrease inner-city contamination and the associated adverse effects on health and productivity. With the reduced use of pesticides in Indian rural farming fields (-76% in 2050), Indian farmers would be able to improve their health.
Worked Example 2 – Passenger Vehicles
Published in Peter Stasinopoulos, Michael H. Smith, Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves, Cheryl Desha, Whole System Design, 2013
Peter Stasinopoulos, Michael H. Smith, Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves, Cheryl Desha
The Revolution also boasts some impressive environmental benefits that are generally not counted by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) or customers: The Revolution generates zero emissions.50 The only by-product from the fuel cell is heat and pure water, which can be collected and put to use elsewhere. Zero emissions also means cleaner air and buildings, reduced health risks for people, fewer regulatory restrictions, and simplified testing for OEMs.The quiet operation of the fuel cell/electric propulsion system reduces noise pollution.Revolution also has a high salvage value since it is almost fully recyclable.51 Even the valuable carbon fibre material, which conventionally would be sent to landfill, can be recovered profitably with negligible degradation.
Recent Progress of Phase Change Materials and a Novel Application to Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management
Published in Moghtada Mobedi, Kamel Hooman, Wen-Quan Tao, Solid–Liquid Thermal Energy Storage, 2022
Yiwei Wang, Peng Peng, Wenjiong Cao, Fangming Jiang
Andersen et al. [6] indicated that 95% of motor vehicles depend on oil, accounting for more than 50% of the world’s carbon emissions. Since late twentieth century, the transportation sector, as a large consumer of energy and a source of environmental pollution, is imperative to implement energy conservation and emission reduction for traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. The electric vehicles have at least the two advantages: low energy consumption and zero emissions on road, and thus the use of electric vehicles can significantly reduce carbon emissions. The key to the development of electric vehicles is to improve the working performance of power batteries [7–8], mostly lithium-ion batteries.
Evaluation of Distinct EV Scheduling at Residential Charging Points in an Unbalanced Power Distribution System
Published in IETE Journal of Research, 2023
Pritam Das, Soumyakanata Samantaray, Partha Kayal
Fossil fuels are one of the biggest contributors to ecological greenhouse gasses and global warming. The fuel transportation segment and conventional power generation are the key users of fossil fuels [1]. The transportation segment alone emits almost 23% of yearly CO2 emissions [2]. On the contrary, EVs are presumed to cause very less pollution, and also their running cost is nearly one-tenth of the fuel cars [3]. Countries around the world are keenly interested in converting their transportation sector to be dominated by EVs. The main forces behind the adoption of EVs, among many others, are their lower cost of transportation and zero emission features. The current power delivery system has seen a sharp rise in load demand as a result of the surge in EV use. The utilities are concerned about overloading, low voltage, increased load imbalances, and a host of other issues as a consequence. Hence, proper scheduling is needed such that these issues are alleviated. Furthermore, EVs might have a beneficial impact on the power delivery distribution system if they are managed intelligently. A win-win situation might be experienced where the system may obtain better performance, and the EV owners get incentives on price. In this regard, individual candidate-based scheduling of the EVs present in a distribution territory is the most lucrative solution.
Computational flow analysis of different streamline cooling plates for thermal management of lithium-ion battery
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2022
Divya D Shetty, Vivek Venugopal, Pradeep R, Mohammad Zuber, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, Chandrakant Kini
The global automotive industry is strongly emphasizing on sustainable environmental solutions to mitigate pollution, climate change and energy crisis. The electric vehicles have been a prominent choice with zero emission thus eliminating the major cause of environmental pollution. Lithium ion battery is the power house of electric vehicle and they perform optimally in the temperature range of 20 to 45°C. Liquid-based battery thermal management system is commonly employed in electric vehicles for maintaining the battery in optimum operating temperature range. The present work discusses the operating performance of streamline configuration cooling plates for cooling the Li-ion battery cell. By adopting the streamline configuration in cooling plate design, the flow resistance is significantly minimized and better temperature uniformity has been obtained thus implicating that this could be a better solution for battery thermal management in electric vehicles.
Heterogeneous preferences of green vehicles by vehicle size: Analysis of Seoul case
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2018
Jin-Seok Hahn, Jang-Ho Lee, Keechoo Choi
Due in part to the Paris Agreement, the Korean government set and announced a voluntary goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 37% from the business-as-usual (BAU) level by 2030. The nationwide reduction goal of 37% is to be reached by reductions of 34.4% in the transport sector. For the transport sector, key reduction methods are to reorganize the traffic system with a focus on public transportation, green vehicles,1A green vehicle means a road motor vehicle that produces less harmful impacts to the environment than comparable conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. Green vehicles in this paper include hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and battery electric vehicles. On the other hand, a zero-emission vehicle is a vehicle that emits no exhaust gas from the on-board source of power. Examples of zero emission vehicles include muscle-powered vehicles such as bicycles, electric bicycles, battery electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles powered by hydrogen. and bicycles. Specifically, it has set a goal of having 20% of new car sales be green vehicles by 2020. However, even though several policies have been established to promote the sales of green vehicles and there is an increased interest in more environmentally friendly transportation technologies, green vehicles have yet to penetrate the market to the extent desired. For fiscal year 2015, only 2.5% of vehicle sales were green vehicles (Hahn, Gong, Park, & Song, 2015).