CAREER: CAS-Climate: Sustainable Design Principles for Emerging Photovoltaics

职业：CAS-气候：新兴光伏发电的可持续设计原则

• 批准号: 2239755
• 负责人: ilke celik
• 金额: $ 53.34万
• 依托单位: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2239755&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; CAS; Climate; Sustainable; Design

The overarching goal of this project is to identify the most environmentally sustainable and economically feasible schemes to prepare emerging photovoltaic (EPV) technologies for the energy market as truly sustainable solar technology. This goal will be pursued by synergistically integrating research and education-associated tasks within three objectives: (1) identifying sustainable design principles for EPVs based on circular end-of-life (EoL) options and advancing sustainability education with EoL-related concepts; (2) analyzing the use and EoL phase-related environmental impacts and cost dimension of EPVs and advancing solar energy education in higher education in South Dakota, and; (3) assessing enviro-economic models for novel application of EPVs, creating decision support tools (EPV-Life tool), and disseminating the research results by offering workshops. Considering that EPVs can create an important market for the solar energy industry, enviro-economic models of EPVs and their novel applications are essential to inform PV stakeholders regarding the pathways for environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable solar energy. As a result, the societal benefits of this project include methods for offsetting greenhouse gases and facilitating an effective education mechanism for EPVs technology.The investigator will design the EPV architectures following refurbish, remanufacture, and recycle (triple-r) principles while this technology is still partially in the R&D stage. The focal point of design for triple-r is to determine device architecture that allows environmentally friendly and economically feasible EoL management schemes. The investigator will assess the life cycle toxic impacts from the use and EoL phase of EPVs due to a catastrophic event and/or breakage or improper disposal. As a result, the use phase-related environmental impacts of PV projects installed on paved (i.e., rooftops) and unpaved (i.e., ground-mounted) surfaces and long-term impacts related to improper dumping will be better understood, and strategies to prevent these from happening can be formulated. The investigator will design all processes involved in the entire life cycle of EPVs using the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) metric, with explicit focus on assessing the net cost of triple-r options that minimize the net cost of electricity from EPVs. Integration of EoL to the LCOE metric will allow for comprehensive development of EPVs with a closed-loop approach. All processes involved in the entire life cycle of EPVs and their novel application fields will be designed using enviro-economic tradeoffs analyzed in this project. A primary focus will be on assessing bifacial systems used in urban/ sub-urban deployment and EPV coupled battery systems in rural/remote applications. The research and educational goals of this project are integrated by focusing on five broader impacts activities: 1) Training graduate and undergraduate students, 2) working closely with Youth & Family Services to outreach to K-12 students, including minority students from the underserved, economically disadvantaged, and underrepresented (e.g., Native American) in western South Dakota, 3) working with Rapid City’s Sustainability Committee to outreach local communities to promote sustainable solar energy and inform them about residential solar deployment’s benefits, 4) partnering with the solar industry and research centers to enhance the infrastructure for research and education, and 5) disseminating research results broader communities with peer-reviewed publications, national and international presentations, and EPV- Life tool, and the team’s Twitter account and YouTube videos.This project is jointly funded by the ENG/CBET Environmental Sustainability program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的总体目标是确定环境上最可持续且经济上最可行的方案，为能源市场准备新兴光伏（EPV）技术，使其成为真正可持续的太阳能技术。这一目标将通过协同整合研究和教育相关任务来实现。三个目标：(1) 基于循环报废 (EoL) 方案确定 EPV 的可持续设计原则，并利用 EoL 相关概念推进可持续发展教育；(2) 分析使用和 EoL 阶段相关的环境影响，以及EPV 的成本维度和推进南达科他州高等教育中的太阳能教育，以及 (3) 评估 EPV 新颖应用的环境经济模型，创建决策支持工具（EPV-Life 工具），并通过提供考虑到 EPV 可以为太阳能行业创造一个重要的市场，EPV 的环境经济模型及其新颖的应用对于告知光伏利益相关者关于环境、经济和社会可持续太阳能的途径至关重要。社会效益该项目的主要内容包括抵消温室气体排放的方法和促进 EPV 技术的有效教育机制。研究人员将按照翻新、再制造和回收 (triple-r) 原则设计 EPV 架构，而该技术仍部分处于研发阶段。 Triple-R 设计的重点是确定能够实现环保且经济可行的 EoL 管理方案的设备架构。研究人员将评估 EPV 使用和 EoL 阶段造成的生命周期毒性影响。灾难性事件和/或破损或不当处置因此，安装在铺砌（即屋顶）和未铺砌（即地面安装）表面上的光伏项目的使用阶段相关的环境影响以及与相关的长期影响。调查人员将使用平准化电力成本 (LCOE) 指标来设计 EPV 整个生命周期中涉及的所有流程，并明确重点。评估三重方案的净成本，最大限度地降低 EPV 的电力净成本，将 EoL 与 LCOE 指标相结合，将允许采用闭环方法全面开发 EPV 的整个生命周期中涉及的所有流程。 EPV 及其新颖的应用领域将利用本项目中分析的环境经济权衡进行设计，主要重点是评估城市/郊区部署中使用的双面系统以及农村/偏远应用中的 EPV 耦合电池系统。该项目的研究和教育目标通过关注五项更广泛的影响活动来整合：1) 培训研究生和本科生，2) 与青年和家庭服务部门密切合作，向 K-12 学生提供服务，包括来自服务不足的少数民族学生、南达科他州西部经济上处于不利地位且代表性不足的人（例如美洲原住民），3) 与拉皮德城可持续发展委员会合作，向当地社区推广可持续太阳能，并向他们介绍住宅太阳能部署的好处，4) 与太阳能行业和研究中心，以加强研究和教育基础设施，以及 5) 通过同行评审出版物、国内和国际演讲、EPV-Life 工具以及团队的 Twitter 帐户和 YouTube 视频，在更广泛的社区传播研究成果。该项目该奖项由 ENG/CBET 环境可持续发展计划和刺激竞争性研究既定计划 (EPSCoR) 共同资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。