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Environomic design of vehicle energy systems for optimal mobility service

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With the increasing trend of mobility of the human population, vehicles have to face the problem of primary energy resources scarcity. The vehicles need higher efficiency and better adaptation to the alternative energy sources. The need to improve the effi ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Assessment of the economic impacts of the revision of the Swiss CO2 law with a hybrid model

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, André Sceia

In Switzerland, as in many other OECD countries, transportation and housing are responsible for the major part of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the framework of the assessment of the policies envisaged in Switzerland for the revision of the CO2-Law fo ...

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Multiobjective Optimisation of integrated energy systems for remote communities considering economic and LCA factors

Daniel Favrat, Xavier Pelet

Resources both physical and financial are scarce in most developing countries while environmental concerns are growing requiring a greater effort to rationally plan investments. Nowadays the methods for designing, planning and managing integrated energy sy ...

2007

Energetic Performance of a Hybrid Energy Storage System based on Compressed Air and Super Capacitors

Alfred Rufer

This paper presents a study and experimentation of a hybrid energy storage system prototype, based on Compressed Air, where the charging and discharging is done within maximum efficiency conditions of the volumetric machine. As the maximum efficiency condi ...

2006

Efficiency Considerations and Measurements of a Hybrid Energy Storage System based on Compressed Air and Super Capacitors

Alfred Rufer

2006

Hybrid Energy Storage System Based on Compressed Air and Super-Capacitors with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking (MEPT)

Alfred Rufer

This paper presents a hybrid energy storage system mainly based on Compressed Air, where the storage and withdrawal of energy are done within maximum efficiency conditions. As these maximum efficiency conditions impose the level of converted power, an inte ...

2006

Design and Control of a Supercapacitor Storage System for Traction Applications

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade

The storage system in this paper is made of supercapacitors. The main goal is to ensure an efficient energy management in a series hybrid vehicle, even if braking resistors are still needed. Design considerations are discussed. In particular the influence ...

2005

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This paper presents a hybrid energy storage system based on Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), where the extraction of energy is done within maximum efficiency conditions. As the maximum efficiency conditions impose the level of converted power, an inte ...

2003

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