Battery-Powered Trains: Feasibility Study for Battery Energy Storage and Propulsion on Trains

This paper discusses a study that has been conducted of battery powered trains, and their possible use in providing alternative sources of propulsion and battery energy storage. The study examined the technology of on-board storage of electrical energy, and its utilization for accommodating the power and energy requirements of specific routes in particular case studies; and the possible design of an automated system for quickly exchanging batteries that have been discharged with charged batteries at railroad stations.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trl.co.uk/reports-publications/report/?reportid=6787
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• Authors:
  • Molyneux, J
  • Bird, H
  • Rasalingam, T
  • Bradbury, T
• Publication Date: 2010-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Glossary; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 70p
• Serial:
  • TRL Published Project Report
  • Publisher: TRL
  • ISSN: 0968-4093

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric batteries; Energy storage devices; Energy storage systems; Feasibility analysis; Propulsion; Railroad trains
• Subject Areas: Energy; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01470183
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: PPR551
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 18 2013 4:22PM