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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Well to Wheels"”.
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Investigating the Environmental Impacts of Western Canadian Tight Oil Resources
… and use of this resource are still being understood. Production is spread widely across multiple provinces, varying in production characteristics and facing unique environmental and operational challenges. The objective of this thesis is to investigate the environmental impacts associated with …
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A technology impact forecasting framework for the comparative life cycle cost and carbon assessment of alternative bus fleets
A modal shift from private to public transport, such as increased use of buses, and adoption of alternative powertrain technologies (e.g. diesel-hybrids and battery-electric), are key solutions for mitigating the impacts of climate change, whilst reducing fossil energy dependency and urban …
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Model-Based Design of a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Control Strategy
For years the trend in the automotive industry has been toward more complex electronic control systems. The number of electronic control units (ECUs) in vehicles is ever increasing as is the complexity of communication networks among the ECUs. Increasing fuel economy standards and the increasing …
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Optimization tool for transit bus fleet management
… focused on investigating new bus technologies to reduce emissions and cost. However, they ignored the potential environmental and economic gain by improving the fitness and harmony between individual buses and routes in fleets. This dissertation provided, for the first time, a tool for fleet …
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Accelerating bus electrification : enabling a sustainable transition to low carbon transportation systems
With growing agreement that credible pathways to zero carbon electricity exist, many support the notion that widespread electrification of the transportation sector will be an essential strategy for meeting scientifically-based midcentury climate goals. While transit buses have a relatively small …
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Environmental and economic evaluation of algal-based biofuels through geographically resolved process and sustainability modeling
… Their advantages over conventional biofuel feedstocks position algal biomass as a promising feedstock for the development of a sustainable and circular bioeconomy. Despite recent technological improvements, techno-economic analyses (TEAs) show that algae-derived fuels fail to be cost-competitive …