First Name: | Dave |
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Last Name: | Cook |
Email Address: | dave.cook@railpropulsion.com |
Affiliation | Rail Propulsion Sytems |
Subject | Comments on Draft Heavy-Duty Technology and Fuels Assessment Overview |
Comment |
Figure 14 on page 13 of the draft report discusses locomotive battery tenders. Locomotives are good candidates for hybridization as they have built in electric powertrains and the low rolling friction of steel wheels minimizes the impact of the extra weight of the large battery system. But it will be challenging to find a freight application that performs enough start and stop motions to get a benefit from recovering the braking energy because efficiently operated freight trains rarely stop, this is why they can achieve 450+ revenue ton miles per diesel gallon. On the other-hand, regional passenger and commuter locomotives stop and accelerate frequently, in contrast to freight rail, passenger trains typically consume 3 gallons per mile. Attached is a while paper discussing the hybridization of regional passenger rail service with a simple system that would pay for itself in fuel savings. Additionally it offers the rail agencies additional power when accelerating so that they can operate longer trains on less fuel in the same schedule or they could operate these trains faster getting more trains in the same schedule. This system also allows electrifying a rail corridor where it makes sense without restricting newly electrified trains to a limited electrified corridor. Picture Caltrain electrification that ends at San Jose. A passenger will now need to disembark and get on a diesel hauled train in order to continue from San Jose to Gilroy. This hybridization also allows the implementation of wireless power transfer to implement partial charging of the train batteries at each stop; this further increases zero emissions miles and reduces diesel fuel consumption. The hybridization can be done one train at a time, and wireless power transfer can be added where its practical one station at a time with minimal interruption of rail service. |
Attachment |
www.arb.ca.gov/lists/com-attach/60-techfuel-report-ws-B2hWPgBeUmNWPwFg.pdf Original File Name: On Board Electrification and Near Zero Emissions for Regional Rail.pdf
Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2016-04-19 15:36:15 |
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