Abstract:
In this day and age, environment is the main concern. And to achieve a sustainable
future regarding technology, electric vehicle can be a major gateway to reduce carbon
emission. In Bangladesh, electric vehicle is not prominent when it comes to transportation.
There are a lot of reasons behind this. But the most important one that needs to be solves is
the lack of efficient charging stations infrastructure. A charging station infrastructure
provides a quintessential service which is charging in between destinations. And for that
purpose, they have to be located in such a way so that, the EVs can be charged in an efficient
manner. This is where the necessity of optimal locations arises.
The objective of this research is pretty simple. This research offers the best locations
among other important location where a charging station should be built. Recent statistics
shows us that Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has become the most polluted city in the
world. And it is very important to reduce carbon emission in this city where EVs can be of
great help. In order to solve this problem, this research takes Banani, an important part of
Dhaka city as a location in order to completer the thesis. Depending on the relevant
information provided, this paper first tries to build a model which calculates the distance cost
.Based on that, an objective function is formulated which takes distance cost minimization as
its primary concern. An optimization algorithm is used to find the best and optimum
locations. The algorithm is genetic algorithm which finds the fittest solution according to the
objective function and the constraints provided. This solution solves the distance cost
minimization problem under the constraints of the capacity of the charging stations and the
location from where the EV flow will start.
Finally, after finding the results, we have crosschecked them by changing the number
of vehicles, the capacity of the locations and the number of charging stations itself to have a
good idea on how this research actually served its purpose.
Description:
Supervised by
Dr. Fahim Abid,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering(EEE),
Islamic University of Technology(IUT),
Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh.
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2022.
