EAGER: Sustainable Energy Bike Lanes with Applications in the City of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

这项活动是为了响应NSF亲爱的同事信，支持通过美国东盟（东南亚国家联盟城市）智慧城市伙伴关系与NSF和美国国务院合作，将研究转移到城市。Prairie View A M University（PVAMU）将与马来西亚吉隆坡的Tenaga National大学（UNITEN）合作，为吉隆坡的自行车道开发可再生能源。 吉隆坡是马来西亚最大的城市，人口约180.8万。 该市有一条11公里长的专用自行车道，以减少交通拥堵。PVAMU和UNITEN之间的合作伙伴关系将加速自行车道能源技术的创新。该项目的愿景是开发复合发电电池，当自行车骑在发电电池上时将产生电力。这些能量将从复合发电电池中获得，并将铺设在自行车道上。收集到的能量将用于沿着自行车道的应急灯，以给骑自行车的人更多的安全，或为安装在自行车道旁的电子标志提供电力。此外，收集的能量将用于为小工具充电，并为骑自行车的人或行人提供纯净水。该多源能源系统将应用于为马来西亚吉隆坡市的（i）通过反渗透系统的雨水净化、（ii）应急灯和（iii）自行车道的充电站供电。该系统将首先在PVAMU进行测试，然后与UNITEN集成，并在吉隆坡进行试点。该项目将对吉隆坡人民的绿色生活方式产生巨大影响。 此外，本项目成熟的研究可能适用于东盟其他城市以及美国许多城镇，为其自行车道提供可再生能源。本项目的主要目标是：（i）开发在压力下产生电力的复合发电电池，（ii）设计电荷收集电子电路以存储所产生的电力，（iii）制造具有发电单元、电荷收集电路、电池存储器和涂料的集成垫系统，（iv）在马来西亚的吉隆坡安装和测试集成垫系统。 该活动将利用在草原视图A M和UNITEN研究。为了能够在自行车道上使用，将开发具有优化厚度的薄膜PZT电池。将针对PZT电池的每种类型的纳米材料确定膜的能量和厚度。实验将进行，以确定细胞的边缘到边缘的距离，总能量输出，PZT的厚度，和能量积累的时间响应。基于微处理器的能源监测系统将管理移动的充电应用的能源生产和消耗。这些单元将配置有自行车道上的油漆条矩阵。 除了复合发电电池，太阳能电池板将在整个自行车道的各个地方结合到能量收集轨道，从而为自行车道创造可持续的多源能源系统。 将进行各种实验来优化自行车道的能量过程。 该设计将在PVAMU进行测试，然后整合到吉隆坡的自行车道基础设施中。 PVAMU和UNITEN团队将与城市规划人员合作，验证概念并支持评估，作为KL智慧城市活动的一部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This activity is in response to NSF Dear Colleague Letter Supporting Transition of Research into Cities through the US ASEAN ((Association of Southeast Asian Nations Cities) Smart Cities Partnership in collaboration with NSF and the US State Department. Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) will be partnering with University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) at Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, to develop renewable energy sources for bike lanes in KL. Kuala Lumpur is the largest city in Malaysia, and it is home to approximately 1.808 million people. The city has an 11 km long dedicated bicycle lane to reduce traffic congestion. The partnership between PVAMU and UNITEN will accelerate innovation in bike lane energy technologies. The vision of the project is to develop composite power generating cells that will generate power when bikes are ridden on the power generating cells. The energy will be harvested from composite power generating cells and will be laid on the bike lanes. The harvested energy will be used for emergency lamps along the bikeways to give more safety to the bikers or provide electric power for electronic signs installed alongside the bikeways. In addition, the harvested energy will be used for charging gadgets and provide purified water for bikers or pedestrians. The multi-sourced energy system will have applications in supplying power for (i) rainwater purification through reverse osmosis systems, (ii) emergency lights, and (iii) charging stations in the bike lanes in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The system will be initially tested at PVAMU and will then be integrated with UNITEN and piloted in Kuala Lumpur. The project will have a huge impact on the green lifestyle of the people at Kuala Lumpur. Moreover, the research matured in this project may be suitable for use in other ASEAN cities as well as many cities and towns in the United States to provide renewable energy sources for their bike lanes.The main goals of the project are: (i) develop a composite power generating cells that generate power under pressure, (ii) design charge collection electronic circuits to store the generated power, (iii) fabricate an integrated pad system with power generating cells, charge collection circuits, battery storage, and paint, (iv) install and test the integrated pad system at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The activity will leverage research at Prairie View A&M and UNITEN. To enable the use in bike lanes, thin-film PZT cells with optimized thickness will be developed. The energy and thickness of the film will be determined for each type of nanomaterial of the PZT cell. Experiments will be conducted to determine cells’ edge-to-edge distances, total energy output, the thickness of the PZT, and time responses of energy accumulation. A microcontroller-based energy monitoring system will manage the energy production and consumption for mobile charging applications. The cells will be configured with a matrix of paint strips on bike lanes. In addition to the composite power generating cells, solar panels will be combined in various places throughout the bike lanes to the energy-collection-rail, thus creating the sustainable multi-sourced energy system for the bike lanes. Various experiments will be performed to optimize the energy process from the bike lane. The design will be tested at PVAMU and then integrated into a bike lane infrastructure in Kuala Lumpur. The PVAMU and UNITEN team will be collaborating with city planning personnel to validate the concept and support evaluation as part of KL smart city activities.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.