Analysis of Using Biogas Resources for Electric Vehicle Charging in Bangladesh: A Techno-Economic-Environmental Perspective

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Karmaker, Ashish Kumar
Hossain, Md Alamgir
Kumar, Nallapaneni Manoj
Jagadeesan, Vishnupriyan
Jayakumar, Arunkumar
Ray, Biplob
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2020
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The growing popularity of electric vehicles (EV) is creating an increasing burden on the power grid in Bangladesh due to massive energy consumption. Due to this uptake of variable energy consumption, environmental concerns, and scarcity of energy lead to investigate alternative energy resources that are readily available and environment friendly. Bangladesh has enormous potential in the field of renewable resources, such as biogas and biomass. Therefore, this paper proposes a design of a 20 kW electric vehicle charging station (EVCS) using biogas resources. A comprehensive viability analysis is also presented for the proposed EVCS from technological, economic, and environmental viewpoints using the HOMER (Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Energy Resources) model. The viability result shows that with the capacity of 15-20 EVs per day, the proposed EVCS will save monthly $16.31 and $29.46, respectively, for easy bike and auto-rickshaw type electric vehicles in Bangladesh compare to grid electricity charging. Furthermore, the proposed charging station can reduce 65.61% of CO2 emissions than a grid-based charging station.

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Sustainability

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12

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7

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Hybrid and electric vehicles and powertrains

Electrical engineering

Built environment and design

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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology

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Environmental Studies

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Karmaker, AK; Hossain, MA; Kumar, NM; Jagadeesan, V; Jayakumar, A; Ray, B, Analysis of Using Biogas Resources for Electric Vehicle Charging in Bangladesh: A Techno-Economic-Environmental Perspective, SUSTAINABILITY, 2020, 12 (7), Article: 2579. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072579

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