Browsing by Author "Trilla Romero, Lluís"
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Critical review on the sustainability of electric vehicles: addressing challenges without interfering in market trends
(2024-02-23)
Article
Open AccessThe primary focus in electrifying the transportation sector should be sustainability. This can be effectively attained through the application of the seven eco-efficiency principles, which constitute the global standard ... -
Dual extended Kalman filter for state of charge estimation of lithium–sulfur batteries
(2022-09-23)
Article
Open AccessLithium-Sulfur is a promising technology for the next generation of batteries and research efforts for early-stage prototype implementation increased in recent years. For the development of a suitable Battery Management ... -
Electric vehicle battery health expected at end of life in the upcoming years based on UK data
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-10-07)
Article
Open AccessSecond-life businesses from Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries are gaining attention considering that these batteries are deemed as inappropriate for transport purposes once they reach 80 or 70% of State of Health (SoH). ... -
End of electric vehicle batteries: reuse vs. recycle
(2021-04-16)
Article
Open AccessIt is a fact that electric vehicles (EVs) are beneficial for climate protection. However, the current challenge is to decide on whether to reuse an EV battery or to recycle it after its first use. This paper theoretically ... -
Planificació de moviments en entorns amb incertesa per a manipulació d'objectes
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-09)
Master thesis
Restricted access - author's decisionLa planificació de moviments per a la manipulació s'estudia generalment en entorns ben calibrats, on les accions i les percepcions de l'entorn determinístiques. En aquest projecte es vol explorar les implicacions de ... -
Planning stacking operations with an unknown number of objects
(INSTICC Press. Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, 2010)
Conference report
Open AccessA planning framework is proposed for the task of cleaning a table and stack an unknown number of objects of different size on a tray. We propose to divide this problem in two, and combine two different planning algorithms. ... -
Power converter optimal control for wind energy conversion systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-11-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessL'energia eòlica ha incrementat la seva presència a molts països i s'espera que tingui encara un pes més gran en la generació elèctrica amb la implantació de la tecnologia eòlica marina. En aquest context el desenvolupament ... -
Powering the future: a comprehensive review of battery energy storage systems
(2023-09-01)
Article
Open AccessGlobal society is significantly speeding up the adoption of renewable energy sources and their integration into the current existing grid in order to counteract growing environmental problems, particularly the increased ... -
Procedure for Assessing the Suitability of Battery Second Life Applications after EV First Life
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-09-09)
Article
Open AccessUsing batteries after their first life in an Electric Vehicle (EV) represents an opportunity to reduce the environmental impact and increase the economic benefits before recycling the battery. Many different second life ... -
Reliability assessment of a fault-tolerant PV multistring inverter
(2020-12-10)
Article
Open AccessIn photovoltaic (PV) systems, the reliability of the system components, especially the power converters, is a major concern in obtaining cost effective solutions. In order to guarantee service continuity in the case of ... -
Technical and economic comparison of various electrical collection grid configurations for large photovoltaic power plants
(2017-02-22)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn this study, a technical and economic comparative analysis for evaluating the performance of various electrical photovoltaic (PV) plant configurations is presented. This methodology assessment is based on a holistic ... -
The effects of lithium sulfur battery ageing on second-life possibilities and environmental life cycle assessment studies
(2019-01-01)
Article
Open AccessThe development of Li-ion batteries has enabled the re-entry of electric vehicles into the market. As car manufacturers strive to reach higher practical specific energies (550 Wh/kg) than what is achievable for Li-ion ...
