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Synergic Design and Simulation of Battery-Operated Trains on Partially Electrified Lines: A Case Study regarding the Firenze Faenza Line

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  • Luca Pugi

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy)

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A full electrification of many local railway lines is often not feasible or sustainable in terms of construction and maintenance costs or alternatively for the presence of additional constraints and limitations deriving from environmental or infrastructural limitations. Battery Operated or other kind of hybrid solutions powertrains are currently proposed as sustainable alternatives to Internal combustion engines for the propulsion of rolling stock on not electrified lines. In this work, authors propose the adoption of a partial electrification of lines to assure higher performances and reliability of battery-operated rolling stock designed to be recharged and feed using standard technologies such as pantographs gathering power from suspended catenaries. This innovative solution is designed and sized for a vehicle inspired from an existing one and simulated for two different existing lines, also proposing an optimal distribution of electrified sections dedicated to train recharge. This Case Study is simulated considering some possible applications to some existing railway lines in Italy.

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  • Luca Pugi, 2023. "Synergic Design and Simulation of Battery-Operated Trains on Partially Electrified Lines: A Case Study regarding the Firenze Faenza Line," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(1), pages 1-17, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:17:y:2023:i:1:p:24-:d:1303617
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