Analysis of wayside energy storage devices for DC heavy rail transport

Abstract

The proposed paper presents the possibility of using the wayside energy storage devices (WESD) for the DC Heavy Rail Transport treating the design, costs and payback time. Moreover a case study comparison for the use of wayside energy storage devices on the heavy transport at the supply voltage of 3.3kV DC is presented. A method of sizing the energy storage devices using vehicle characteristics, traction power supply and running timetable is presented. The paper also presents the cost analysis for the most commonly used energy storage devices and the payback time.

On-Board and Wayside Energy Storage Devices Applications in Urban Transport Systems—Case Study Analysis for Power Applications

“…Tables A1-A7 present typical input parameters used for simulation purposes in this paper. The information in the tables have been sourced from equipment manufacturers, technical papers or assumed according with engineering common practice [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

“…As with the OESS the WESD can be equipped with a wide range of storage technologies (batteries, supercapacitors, flywheels, hydrogen) with the advantage that there are fewer space constraints to locate the WESD. There are different WESD manufacturers including Siemens (Sitras Static Energy Storage) implemented in Germany (Dresden, Cologne, Koln and Bochum), China (Beijing) and Spain (Madrid); Bombardier (EnerGstor) installed in Kingston (ON, Canada); ABB (Enviline) installed in Warsaw (Poland) and Hong Kong [25][26][27][28][29][30]. In [29] Ghaviha, Campillo, Bohlin and Dahlquist reviewed the use of WESD in light transport and concluded that some WESD can achieve 30% energy savings.…”

“…In [29] Ghaviha, Campillo, Bohlin and Dahlquist reviewed the use of WESD in light transport and concluded that some WESD can achieve 30% energy savings. The authors Radu and Drazek in [30] investigated the use of WESD with different types of storage technologies (lead-acid batteries, nickel metal hydride batteries, lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors and flywheels) in the Polish heavy rail transport (3.3 kV DC).…”

“…According to [30] the most suitable storage technology for WESD in heavy rail transport in terms of cost is supercapacitors, however application of new types of ESD like vanadium redox flow batteries could also be taken into account [31].…”

Experimental investigation of actual situation of using and accounting of recovered energy of regenerative braking mode at the DC traction system

“…The first strategy (stationary ESS) is to arrange the ESS equipment at the traction substations (substation-inside ESS) or other elements of the traction power supply system (wayside ESS). Several literatures deal with the problems of implementations of the stationary ESS systems into DC traction power supply system of metro lines [2][3] and railway lines [6][7][8][9].…”