Implications of introducing alternative fuel vehicles to public van services in Chonburi Province | |
| Author | Boonyawee Worapipat |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.ET-18-02 |
| Subject(s) | Vehicles--Energy consumption--Thailand--Chonburi Photovoltaic power systems--Thailand--Chonburi--Design and construction |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Energy |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | One of major causes of air pollution and global warming is consumption of fossil fuel in vehicles. In order to improve air quality and reduce global warming of transportation sector, the alternative fuel and technologies like biofuel and electric vehicles (EVs) are adopted. In this context, this study analyze the impacts of converting fossil fuel based vehicle toalternative. This study considered passenger van in Chonburi province. The study considered four different scenarios such as: Scenario I –fossil fuel usage; Scenario II –replacing fossil fuel with biofuel; Scenario IIII –usage of electric vehicles; Scenario IV–usage of electric vehicle with solar PV system. There are four group of passenger van which is divided following DLT and van’s usage. The highest current energy consumption is 74.36% in Chonburi-Bangkok operated route group, followed by non-fixed route group with 15.62%, Nearby Chonburi operated route group with 7.57% and inside Chonburi with 2.46%. Moreover, NGV is major fuel consumed of passenger van with 84%, whereas only 16% is Diesel 95 consumption. Because of providing the same km traveling service, energy consumption of converting to biodiesel is similar with current. However, the average biodiesel consumed is higher than diesel 95 by 0.28 million liter/year (5.59%) due to lower energy density. Replacing current passenger van by electric passenger van (Nissan e-NV200) help reduce energy consumption by 47.41% and 59.55% for changing van only aged over 5 years and changing all vans, respectively in the same km service. There is 61.13 kton/year of Average CO2eq emission in scenario I is 61.13 kton/year. CO2eqof shifting diesel 95 to biodiesel drop by only 0.11%. Due to zero GHGs emission in electric vehicle, the CO2eqmarginally drop from current to 26.57 and 14.94 kton/year for placing current van aged over 5 years and replacing all current van by Nissan e-NV200, respectively. The financial analysis considered total cost of ownership (TCO), net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR)and payback period (PB)to analyze and identify accepted scenario. Also, completely replacing by electric passenger van and providing the same number of passenger service are considered. TCO of current passenger van is the highest because of higher fuel and maintenance cost. Additionally, Thai incentive policies about electric vehicle import and usage reduce the purchase cost. IRR, NPV and PB of current project (NGV and diesel base passenger van) provide similar result to electric passenger van project. Increasing level solar PV for electric passenger van charging resulted in higher payback period (PB). |
| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Energy Technology (ET) |
| Chairperson(s) | Salam, P. Abdul; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Kumar, Sivanappan ;Dhakal, Shobhakar; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Thailand (HM Queen); |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2018 |