Title: Risk-based performance analysis for regional hybrid fuel with compressed natural gas option

Authors: Hossam A. Gabbar; Raymond Bedard

Addresses: Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa, L1H 7K4 ON, Canada. ' Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa, L1H 7K4 ON, Canada

Abstract: Compressed natural gas is widely used for transportation due to its competitive price and less environmental impacts compared with traditional gasoline. With the recent push to implement electric vehicles, it became important to evaluate the current transportation fuelling status and identify best scenarios to move towards greener transportation. This paper presents analysis of hybrid transportation with compressed natural gas as a fuelling option to determine the most effective way to implement regional green transportation. Intelligent modelling and simulation techniques are proposed to model transportation and fuelling process and used as basis for performance modelling and analysis for different scenarios. Compressed natural gas is found to be a superior fuel to gasoline based on given scenario conditions and criteria for regional green hybrid transportation. The proposed scenarios are applied on case studies in Ontario to confirm the high value of compressed natural gas as viable fuelling scenarios.

Keywords: compressed natural gas; CNG; alternative fuels; plug-in HEVs; hybrid electric vehicles; PHEVs; green transport; hybrid transport; refuelling infrastructure; risk assessment; performance evaluation; Canada; regional transport; intelligent modelling; intelligent simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSE.2012.051028

International Journal of Process Systems Engineering, 2012 Vol.2 No.2, pp.154 - 177

Received: 11 Apr 2012
Accepted: 12 Aug 2012
Published online: 16 Aug 2014 *

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