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Solar Energy Harvesting in Electro Mobility

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Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency

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Based on the experiences of five solar cars designed and manufactured in 11 years, participations in establishments of solar charging stations and local solar power plant projects, this chapter involves modeling energy harvesting and storing parts of solar cars, differences between maximum power point tracker topologies in implementations, the structures of brushless direct current motors (BLDCMs) and batteries as loads and the similarities of brushless direct current motors; briefly, solar energy harvesting for electro mobility. Light weight is one of the keys for efficiency in electro mobility. This enforces implementations of new technologies in manufacturing light weight electric vehicles. The end of the first section of this chapter is about using polymer composites in manufacturing process of solar cars. On the other hand, if energy harvesting should be separated from the vehicle, modular on or off-grid solar charging stations might be an efficient solution and an implementation of this type of energy harvesting is presented in the second section of this chapter. The last section in this chapter is about hybrid off-grid systems which also includes smart solutions. Implementations of this chapter are manufacturing process chassis and body of a solar car using polymer composites, a model of an off-grid PV charging station for electric vehicles (EVs) in a campus area, electrical units of a solar car for World Solar Challenge.

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Abbreviations

AM:

Air Mass

BLDCM:

Brushless Direct Current Motor

CAD:

Computer Aided Design

EMF:

Electromotive Force

EV:

Electric Vehicle

HAWT:

Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines

ICE:

Internal Combustion Engine

MPPT:

Maximum Power Point Tracker

NOCT:

Normal Operating Cell Temperature

PEM:

Proton Exchange Membrane

P&O:

Perturb & Observe

PV:

Photovoltaic

SAPV:

Stand-Alone Photovoltaic

SC:

Solar Car

SCRIMP:

Seemann Composites Resin Infusion Moulding Process

SOC:

State of Charge

STC:

Standard Test Conditions

VARTM/VARIM:

Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Moulding

VAWT:

Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

VBRTM:

Vacuum Bag Resin Transfer Moulding

WT:

Wind Turbine

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Osman Korkut, Eren Gül for their technical support and valuable discussions; Yusuf Can Arslan, Umut Bozok, Hasan Çekem for their help in analyzing the energy need of a solar car in challenge and each member of Team Solaris project generations for their great effort of working days and nights to manufacture five solar cars and four electric vehicles. The support of sponsors into Solaris Projects during 2004–2016 years are gratefully acknowledged.

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  4. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

    Erol Kurt

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Gören, A. (2017). Solar Energy Harvesting in Electro Mobility. In: Bizon, N., Mahdavi Tabatabaei, N., Blaabjerg, F., Kurt, E. (eds) Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49875-1_11

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