Sustainable transport – Railway traction power network and energy optimisation technologies

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• Dr Zhongbei Tian, University of Liverpool
• Tuesday 03 May 2022, 15:00-16:00
• 909B Seminar Room .

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Energy and environmental sustainability in transportation are becoming ever more critical. Electrified railway systems play an essential role in contributing to reducing energy usage and CO2 emissions compared with other transport modes. This presentation will briefly introduce the development of railway electrification, a multi-train traction power network modeling method, and energy optimization technologies of train driving and renewable integration. The modern trains are implemented with regenerating braking mode, which allows the braking energy to be regenerated as electricity and used by the trains or fed back to the electrical network. The railway energy flow includes the energy supplied from the substations, the energy wasted in the power transmission network, the energy used by the train in traction, and that regenerated by braking trains. By evaluating the railway energy systems, it has been found that railway energy consumption can be reduced by optimizing train driving controls, train operation timetables, and power supply infrastructure. Dr. Zhongbei Tian will present some projects and outcomes in railway energy optimization.

Short Bio: Dr Zhongbei Tian is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Electrical Energy Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, a Member of the Energy and Power Group, leading the transport electrification research at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is also an Honorary Researcher at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE), the University of Birmingham. Dr. Tian received a BEng degree in Electrical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Birmingham. Dr Zhongbei Tian’s research interests include railway traction power system modelling and analysis, energy-efficient train control, energy system optimisation, and sustainable transport energy systems integration and management. Dr Zhongbei Tian has published over 50 high-quality papers. He has been working on a number of projects funded by EPSRC , Horizon 2020, Network Rail, RSSB , and Innovate UK. His research has been implemented in projects across the world, including Network Rail, Edinburgh Tram in the UK, Madrid Metro in Spain, SMRT in Singapore, Beijing and Guangzhou Metro in China. He was the winner of the prestigious 2016 European Partnership for Railway Energy Settlement Systems (ERESS) Award for Best Energy Efficiency Project for Railways.

This talk is part of the Control and Power Seminars series.

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