Design of Fast Cycloconverter-Based Battery-Charging Circuit for High Penetration of Electric Vehicles

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Funso Kehinde Ariyo ◽  
Oluwafemi Aworo ◽  
Michael Kuku
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Battery Charging ◽  
Battery Modeling ◽  
The Road ◽  
Charging Station ◽  
High Penetration ◽  
Level Ii ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Time Required ◽  
The Cost

There have been growing concerns involving the penetration of Electric Vehicles (EVs) due to the time required by its battery to attain full charge. Interests in EVs had recently experienced a dramatic turn down due to mileage limitation on full battery charge amidst the cost of purchase, but most notably due to the absence of quick chargers that can keep the vehicle on the road within few minutes of arriving at the charging station. Researchers had proposed different charging schemes such as level II ac charging, dc charging, and in some cases, wireless charging schemes that later appear to be inefficient. The use of dynamic or simply road-way powered electric vehicles was also proposed in the literature. However, the proposed cycloconverter-based circuit was simulated in Simulink, and the results obtained proved that the rate of charge increased when compared to the conventional EV charging circuit. Also, the focus is on battery charging technology and battery modeling for application in an electric vehicle

scholarly journals System architecture to select the charging station by optimizing the travel time considering the destination of electric vehicle drivers in smart cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
Ibrahim El-fedany ◽  
Driss Kiouach ◽  
Rachid Alaoui
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Time Of Arrival ◽  
Advance Reservation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Charging Station ◽  
Charging Time ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Charging Stations

The main limitations of electric vehicles are the limited scope of the battery and their relatively long charging times. This may cause discomfort to drivers of electric vehicles due to a long waiting period at the service of the charging station, during their trips. In this paper, we suggest a model system based on argorithms, allowing the management of charging plans of electric vehicles to travel on the road to their destination in order to minimize the duration of the drivers' journey. The proposed system decision to select the charging station, during advance reservation of electric vehicles, take into account the time of arrival of electric vehicles at charging stations, the expected charging time at charging stations, the local status of the charging stations in real time, and the amount of energy sufficient for the electric vehicle to arrive at the selected charging station. Furthermore, the system periodically updates the electric vehicule reservations to adjust their recharge plans, when they reach their selected earlier station compared to other vehicules requesting new reservations, or they may not arrive as they were forecast, due to traffic jams on the road or certain reluctance on the part of the driver.

scholarly journals Design & Construction of Electro Magnetic Induction based Roads (EMIR)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1340-1344
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Secondary Coil ◽  
Battery Life ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Dynamic Charging ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Electro Magnetic ◽  
The Cost

Middle-east and especially UAE promotes the use of Electric Vehicles to bring down the carbon emission. Cost of Electric Vehicles (EVs) can be brought down by reducing the cost of its battery. Dynamic charging allows smaller and lighter batteries to be used due to frequent charging, using the charging infrastructure embedded under the roads. Hence this reduces the battery cost and improves the battery life. Reduction in battery cost will bring down the cost of EVs and thus will encourage large population to move toward EVs. This paper presents the design & construction of a prototype EMIR to facilitate dynamic charging of EVs. Aim of this project is to construct 32 feet long and 3 feet wide prototype road with Induction charging facility. Four primary coils with the dimension 164cm x 31 cm with 3 turns and an inductance of 29.1µH are uniformly spaced on the road. Secondary coil of 40 cm x 31 cm with 6 turns with an inductance of 20 µH is attached onto the lower side of the chassis of the EV.

scholarly journals Design of a direct current motor with a windingless rotor for electric vehicles

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5(112)) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Dmytro Ivliev ◽  
Volodymyr Kosenkov ◽  
Oleksandr Vynakov ◽  
Elvira Savolova ◽  
Viktoria Yarmolovych
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Permanent Magnets ◽  
High Price ◽  
Electromagnetic Excitation ◽  
Active Materials ◽  
Synchronous Motors ◽  
The Road ◽  
Electric Car ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Cost

Modern electric vehicles typically exploit synchronous motors with magnetoelectric excitation as traction engines. While possessing a series of undeniable advantages, the synchronous motor has one significant drawback ‒ the high cost predetermined by the high price of permanent magnets. In addition, the impossibility to disable a magnetic field in case of engine malfunction can lead to an emergency on the road. Given this, there is a need to design new structures of electrical machines with electromagnetic excitation. The structure of a DC traction motor with electromagnetic excitation involving the rotor or stator segmentation makes it possible to considerably weaken the field of the armature transverse reaction by decreasing magnetic conductivity of the magnetic circuit in the transverse direction. Therefore, such a structure lacks commutating poles and a compensation winding. There are no permanent magnets in the structure, all windings are stationary, an electronic switch is used instead of a collector, and a windingless low-inertia rotor does not require additional measures to remove heat. That all has made it possible to significantly reduce the cost of active materials for the traction engine and improve its reliability. To test the performance of the new design, a full-size model of the engine and a working experimental prototype were fabricated. Applying a synchronous jet engine with magnetization for the BMW i3 electric car as an analog, the engine calculations were performed and its simulation was carried out. The results of the analysis show that the mass of the new engine is 35 % greater than the mass of the analog but the cost of active materials is less than that of the analog by 63 %. The results testify to the possibility of implementing a given structure industrially

The formation of drilling equipment delivery scheme for oil and gas sector from China to Russia

2018 ◽  
pp. 426-431
Author(s):  
Elena Matyushenko ◽  
Yulia Kulakovanko ◽  
Alexander Shepel
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Road ◽  
Drilling Equipment ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Time Required ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Oil And Gas Sector

Objective: To study the practical aspects of the formation of the drilling equipment delivery scheme for the oil and gas sector from China to Russia. This is done in order to determine the possibility of optimizing routes and reducing the cost of transportation, taking into account the design features of the transported goods. Methods: The methods of systematization and generalization of theoretical concepts and statistical data were used. Results: The analysis of possible routes of international communication in the context of transportation of drilling equipment was carried out. The specifics of the main land routes of cargo transportation from China were determined. A formula for calculating the time required for transportation and handling of goods was introduced in order to compare the different routes and the delivery time. The calculation of time spent on the road during the transportation of drilling equipment along the route Beijing–Zabaikalsk–the Siberian and Ural Federal Districts was presented. The necessity to form an effective scheme for the delivery of oversized cargo for oil and gas sector based on the proposed algorithm was substantiated. Practical importance: The developed approach makes it possible to calculate the time spent on the way of various cargoes and apply the obtained results in the formation of an effective cargo delivery scheme. The recommendations presented in the article will help improve the quality of the logistics services provided, and increase the efficiency of the transportation process.

scholarly journals Nine Recommendations for the Safety on Road both of the People and the Traffic Police

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Madhur Dev Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Traffic Police ◽  
The Road ◽  
The People ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Injured Patients

Safety of people and traffic police on road and the provision of prompt and appropriate treatment of injured persons in road accident are urgent concerns. The nine recommendations accordingly made are 1) Considering anyone who informs about or brings to the hospitals the accident victims as innocent until proved otherwise, 2) Annual payment by all vehicle owners (as per the cost of vehicles) to generate treatment fund for any road accident injured patients in the free general (not paying or private or extended health service) outdoor or emergency clinics or ward of the public hospitals irrespective of anyone’ fault in the accident (insurance or other agencies may be assigned to handle the amount deposited and reimbursement of the payments to the hospitals), 3) Implementation of helmet wearing by motorcycle riders and pillion riders in motorcycles, 4) Stricter fine for hazardous traffic offenses, 5) Drivers of the larger vehicles should not automatically be held responsible for any accidents involving other smaller vehicles (to prevent smaller vehicles and motorcycles to drive recklessly), 6) Drivers should not be just held responsible to bear health expenses of injured patients (which is much more than the compensation required in the event of death of injured persons); this is to encourage drivers to take injured persons immediately to hospitals and prevent inclination to allow their deaths indirectly or directly; the drivers should be proportionately fined or punished as per the traffic regulations if they are found to be negligent, 7) Safe and visible platform for the traffic police to stay on the road, 8) Provision of cost-effective respirators for traffic police and traffic supervisors, and 9) Compensation for occupational hazards to the traffic police and field traffic supervisors by distributing to them adequate proportion (e.g. one-third to one-half) of the fund collected by stricter fine paid for the hazardous traffic offences. Provision of various allowances, including for hazards, and benefits is a common practice in the country. Compensation for the occupational hazards of the traffic police provides incentives to and motivates them to remain vigilant about hazardous traffic offenses day and night everywhere and, thus, is essential for the safety of the people.   

Optimal Charging Management of Microgrid-Integrated Electric Vehicles

2022 ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
Giulio Ferro ◽  
Riccardo Minciardi ◽  
Luca Parodi ◽  
Michela Robba
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Time Discretization ◽  
Small Time ◽  
Storage Element ◽  
Charging Station ◽  
Decision Variables ◽  
Discretization Step ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Cost

The relevance of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing along with the relative issues. The definition of smart policies for scheduling the EVs charging process represents one of the most important problems. A discrete-event approach is proposed for the optimal scheduling of EVs in microgrids. This choice is due to the necessity of limiting the number of the decision variables, which rapidly grows when a small-time discretization step is chosen. The considered optimization problem regards the charging of a series of vehicles in a microgrid characterized by renewable energy source, a storage element, the connection to the main grid, and a charging station. The objective function to be minimized results from the weighted sum of the cost for purchasing energy from the external grid, the weighted tardiness of the services provided, and a cost related to the occupancy of the socket. The approach is tested on a real case study.

scholarly journals Analysis of Battery Reduction for an Improved Opportunistic Wireless-Charged Electric Bus

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2866
Author(s):  
Andong Yin ◽  
Shenchun Wu ◽  
Weihan Li ◽  
Jinfang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Cost Saving ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Wireless Charging ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Charging System ◽  
Electric Bus ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Operation Cost

As an attractive alternative to the traditional plug-in charged electric vehicles (EVs), wireless-charged EVs have recently been in the spotlight. Opportunistically charged utilizing the wireless-charging infrastructure installed under the road at bus stops, an electric bus can have a smaller and lighter battery pack. In this paper, an improved opportunistic wireless-charging system (OWCS) for electric bus is introduced, which includes the opportunistic stationary wireless-charging system (OSWCS) and opportunistic hybrid wireless-charging system (OHWCS) consisting of stationary wireless-charging and dynamic wireless-charging. A general battery reduction model is established for the opportunistic wireless-charged electric bus (OWCEB). Two different battery-reduction models are built separately for OWCEB on account of the characteristics of OSWCS and OHWCS. Additionally, the cost saving models including the production cost saving, the operation cost saving and total cost saving are established. Then, the mathematical models are demonstrated with a numerical example intuitively. Furthermore, we analyze several parameters that influence the effectiveness of battery reduction due to the application of an opportunistic wireless-charging system on an electric bus. Finally, some points worth discussing in this work are performed.

Experiment with Reduced Salting of Rural Main Roads in Finland

1996 ◽  
Vol 1533 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Veli-Pekka Kallberg
Keyword(s):  
Road Surface ◽  
Winter Maintenance ◽  
The Road ◽  
Pine Trees ◽  
Traffic Volumes ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Chloride Concentrations

An experiment was conducted in the road district of Kuopio in the winters of 1992–1993 and 1993–1994 in which the use of salt in winter maintenance on rural main roads was reduced to 1 to 2 T/road kilometer from the approximately 10 T of salt that typically had been used per road kilometer in similar conditions in recent years. On the experimental roads, salting was replaced by sanding. The cost of winter maintenance on the experimental roads increased by 20 percent on average, and the increase was higher on roads with higher traffic volumes. Slippery conditions due to ice and snow on the road surface were twice as frequent (30 to 40 percent of the time) on the experimental roads as on the control roads in the neighboring road district. There were 27 injury accidents on the experimental roads in the first winter and 25 in the second. This was about the same as the average of the five previous winters. Because the accident trend on other roads in the same time was decreasing, it was concluded that the experiment increased the number of injury accidents by approximately 20 percent on most experimental road sections. Reduced salting decreased the sodium and chloride concentrations in the needles of roadside pine trees. There were also indications of decreased sodium and chloride concentrations in groundwater. Three quarters of the population in the area was pleased with the experiment.

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