A study for electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) application to railway traction energy saving including change over between series and parallel modes

Author

Takahara, Eimei ; Wakasa, Tomohiro ; Yamada, Jun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Meisei Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

855

Abstract

In this paper, possibilities for application of the electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) to railway vehicles are described. Expected advantages are not only energy saving or high efficiency operation, but also keeping regenerative braking even when the power source line is missing. Based on the practical EDLC design, storing energy is calculated by the typical running of assumed commuter cars. Additionally, by applying the change over method between series and parallel modes of the EDLC blocks, the equivalent capacitance is much increased without using a continuously working power converter for keeping output voltage

Keywords

capacitance; electrolytic capacitors; energy conservation; railways; regenerative braking; traction; commuter cars; continuously working power converter; electric double layer capacitors; energy saving; equivalent capacitance; high efficiency operation; parallel modes; power source line; railway vehicles; regenerative brake; series modes; Acceleration; Capacitance; Kinetic energy; Power systems; Rail transportation; Recycling; Supercapacitors; Traction power supplies; Vehicles; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Conversion Conference, 2002. PCC-Osaka 2002. Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Osaka

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7156-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCC.2002.997632

Filename

997632