TY - JOUR
T1 - Roadway to self-healing highways with integrated wireless electric vehicle charging and sustainable energy harvesting technologies
AU - Prasanth, Venugopal
AU - Shekhar, Aditya
AU - Visser, Erwin
AU - Scheele, Natalia
AU - Chandra Mouli, Gautham Ram
AU - Bauer, Pavol
AU - Silvester, Sacha
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Development of electric mobility and sustainable energy result in new technologies such as contactless electric vehicle charging and roadway energy harvesting methods, but also self-healing asphalt roads. By combining these technologies a new concept of Future Sustainable Roads for Electric Mobility is created and presented in the paper. This paper bridges the gap created by these unilateral technology developments using a multi-disciplinary approach including placing cautions when necessary and suggesting viable alternatives for optimal utilization of these energy transfer and conversion techniques. Through theoretical analysis, simulations, and tests on lab-scale experimental prototypes, the impact of our proposal is showcased. Thermal and loss models are developed for self-healing asphalt. Also, integration study of solar roads and contactless charging is performed. Applying the insight gained from the results, it is discussed how some challenges also pave a way towards interesting opportunities, for instance, infrastructure sharing for material use optimization and efficient mosaic integration. Finally, an economic viability case study is presented for a future Dutch highway with such newly emerging components.
AB - Development of electric mobility and sustainable energy result in new technologies such as contactless electric vehicle charging and roadway energy harvesting methods, but also self-healing asphalt roads. By combining these technologies a new concept of Future Sustainable Roads for Electric Mobility is created and presented in the paper. This paper bridges the gap created by these unilateral technology developments using a multi-disciplinary approach including placing cautions when necessary and suggesting viable alternatives for optimal utilization of these energy transfer and conversion techniques. Through theoretical analysis, simulations, and tests on lab-scale experimental prototypes, the impact of our proposal is showcased. Thermal and loss models are developed for self-healing asphalt. Also, integration study of solar roads and contactless charging is performed. Applying the insight gained from the results, it is discussed how some challenges also pave a way towards interesting opportunities, for instance, infrastructure sharing for material use optimization and efficient mosaic integration. Finally, an economic viability case study is presented for a future Dutch highway with such newly emerging components.
KW - Contactless power transfer
KW - Electric vehicles
KW - Green energy
KW - Inductive healing
KW - IPT
KW - Renewable energy
KW - Self-healing roads
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.108
DO - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.108
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043370578
SN - 0306-2619
VL - 212
SP - 1226
EP - 1239
JO - Applied Energy
JF - Applied Energy
ER -