Reducing carbon emissions by introducing electric vehicle enhanced dedicated bus lanes

Doolan, Ronan; Muntean, Gabriel‐Miro

doi:10.1109/ivs.2014.6856418

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“…Increased generation of electricity to meet consumer demands results in carbon emissions if only generation is taken into account, the control of emissions from the demand side will not be achieved [11]. Reduce carbon emissions by 1.3 to 1.6 tons per year for a standard UK home with a solar system, depending on where it lives in the UK, and this is estimated by Energy Travel Trust (EST) [13]. Industrial processes account for more than one-fifth of global emissions and increase as infrastructure develops and the middle class expands worldwide.…”

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Carbon Footprint Study on Renewable Power Plants: Case Study on Egypt's Benban Solar Park

Metwally

Magdy²,

Elbaset³

et al. 2022

International Journal of Applied Energy Systems

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Some recent human activities have negatively affected the environment through the production of toxic substances. Carbon footprint (CFP) refers to the total amount of greenhouse gases generated, i.e., disaggregated by categories of equivalent carbon dioxide compounds. It plays a major role in global environmental degradation, causing global warming. The direct emission of the CFP is determined by the fossil fuels used to generate electricity traditionally and the use of different means of transportation. The use of renewable energy sources (RESs) is a long-term investment aimed at obtaining clean energy, reducing CFP, and replacing fossil fuels for electricity production, thus contributing to the conservation of energy resources for future generations. This paper discusses the most important ways to reduce the CFP by treating toxic gases in the atmosphere and switching to the use of RESs. The results obtained show that the more use of RESs, the less carbon it is because it is clean energy. Furthermore, this paper has studied the case of the Benban solar power plant, Aswan, Egypt which is considered one of the world's biggest solar photovoltaic stations. It was found that this plant reduces carbon emissions by 2 million tons of heat emissions, the equivalent of 400,000 cars.

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Section: Literature Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon Footprint Study on Renewable Power Plants: Case Study on Egypt's Benban Solar Park

Metwally

Magdy²,

Elbaset³

et al. 2022

International Journal of Applied Energy Systems

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“…More recent research has proposed innovative eco-routing solutions for combustion engine vehicles [51], electric vehicles [52] and electric bicycles [53], [54].…”

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EcoTrec—A Novel VANET-Based Approach to Reducing Vehicle Emissions

Doolan

Muntean

2017

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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Abstract-There are interdependent increases in vehicle numbers, vehicular traffic congestion, and carbon emissions that cause major problems worldwide. These problems include direct negative influences on people's health, adverse economic effects, negative social impacts, local environmental damage, and risk of catastrophic global climate change. There is a drastic need to develop ways to reduce these emissions and EcoTrec, presented in this paper, is one of these innovative approaches. EcoTrec is a vehicular ad hoc network-based vehicle routing solution designed to reduce vehicle carbon emissions without significantly affecting the travel times of vehicles. The vehicles exchange messages related to traffic and road conditions, such as average speed on the road, road gradient, and surface condition. This information is used to build a fuel efficiency model of the routes, based on which the vehicles are recommended to take more efficient routes. By routing vehicles more efficiently, the greenhouse emissions are reduced while also maintaining low traffic congestion levels. This paper presents results of extensive simulations, which show how EcoTrec outperforms other state-of-the-art solutions with different number of vehicles, vehicle penetration, and compliance rates, and when considering different real world road maps from Dublin and Koln.

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“…Indeed, combustion of fuel oil generates emissions of gases such as CO2, CO, Soot, unburned hydrocarbons and even NOx whose rates are often very important. Vehicle emissions, Figure 1, highlights the formation of urban smog and global warming, produced by vehicle emissions [7][8][9]. The development of a low-carbon economy is increasingly attracting decision-makers in order to protect the environment and save energy.…”

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“…The development of a low-carbon economy is increasingly attracting decision-makers in order to protect the environment and save energy. This is why many countries have taken specific initiatives to decarbonise their power generation units and for the transport sectors [9,10]. The theoretical laws of stoichiometry's applied to the combustion of hydrocarbons show us that burning one kg of diesel (C7, 25H13), gasoline (C7H16) or LPG (C3, 5H9) respectively requires 14.6 kg, 15.3 kg or 15.6 kg of air in order to produce nitrogen (11.2kg, 11.8kg or 12kg), carbon dioxide 3.2kg, 1.4kg or 3.0kg) and water (102kg, 1.4kg or 1.6kg).…”

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How to Use Hydrogen in a New Strategy to Mitigate Urban Air Pollution and Preserve Human Health

Louiza¹,

Aouachria²,

Haddad³

2020

IJSDP

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If transport is an essential means for the development of the economy, society and its mobility, it has the drawback of leading to significant atmospheric pollution. As traffic density is very high in large cities, air pollution is amplified by the various means of transport resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels. Urban air pollution is mainly caused by vehicles generating emissions harmful to human health. Our objective of this work is to analyze a strategy to eliminate or reduce the emission of these pollutants (NOx, CO, CO2) during combustion. This strategy aims to explore a clean energy source alternative to fossil fuels. This approach consists of completely replacing the internal combustion scalar with the engine powered by fuel cells using hydrogen. This motivates decision makers to choose hydrogen as an alternative fuel to protect the urban environment and the health human from air pollution. This study shows that it is possible to perfectly mitigate pollutants from urban transport systems by using a PEMFC as an alternative clean energy source. Analyze a strategy to eliminate or reduce the emissions of these pollutants (NOx, CO, CO2) during the combustion of full fossil fuel in vehicle engines. This strategy aims to exploit the energy vector represented by hydrogen in order to save human life in more populated areas and protect the environment. The pressure, temperature and concentration of each species (O2, H2 and H2O) are obtained from the resolution of the electrochemical model coupled to the dynamic model, which we do not present here.

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Reducing carbon emissions by introducing electric vehicle enhanced dedicated bus lanes

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Carbon Footprint Study on Renewable Power Plants: Case Study on Egypt's Benban Solar Park

Carbon Footprint Study on Renewable Power Plants: Case Study on Egypt's Benban Solar Park

EcoTrec—A Novel VANET-Based Approach to Reducing Vehicle Emissions

How to Use Hydrogen in a New Strategy to Mitigate Urban Air Pollution and Preserve Human Health

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