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Description
Increasing confidence in the use of instrumentation to harvest waste energy in the transport system
DC railway and metro systems fed by unidirectional substations show significant energy losses as they cannot fully recover the energy generated by braking. Bidirectional substations should improve the energy efficiency but there are currently no equipment and procedures to determine their actual efficiency.
Project will develop new methodologies for DC transport efficiency determination that combine accurate on-site measurements with circuit models of the railway electric system.
VTT MIKES will use its knowledge on on-site medium power measurements to develop an energy efficient measurement system suitable for DC substations and for on-site efficiency measurements.
Call 2022: Metrology support for Regulation and Standards
The project (22NRM04 e-TRENY) has received funding from the European Partnership on Metrology, co-financed from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme and by the Participating States.
DC railway and metro systems fed by unidirectional substations show significant energy losses as they cannot fully recover the energy generated by braking. Bidirectional substations should improve the energy efficiency but there are currently no equipment and procedures to determine their actual efficiency.
Project will develop new methodologies for DC transport efficiency determination that combine accurate on-site measurements with circuit models of the railway electric system.
VTT MIKES will use its knowledge on on-site medium power measurements to develop an energy efficient measurement system suitable for DC substations and for on-site efficiency measurements.
Call 2022: Metrology support for Regulation and Standards
The project (22NRM04 e-TRENY) has received funding from the European Partnership on Metrology, co-financed from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme and by the Participating States.
| Acronym | e-TRENY |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Effective start/end date | 1/06/23 → 31/05/26 |
Collaborative partners
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- National Metrological Institute (INRIM) (lead)
- Fundación para el Fomento de la Innovación Industrial (FFII) (Project partner)
- Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE) (Project partner)
- Dutch Metrology Institute (VSL) (Project partner)
- Alstom Transport SA (Project partner)
- Metro de Madrid S.A. (Project partner)
- Systra S.A. (Project partner)
- University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Project partner)
- University of Genoa (Project partner)
- University of Twente (Project partner)
Funding
- EURAMET e.V. - European Partnership on Metrology
Funding category
- Horizon Europe
Keywords
- Power/energy measurement
- energy efficiency
- DC transportation supply system
- unidirectional/bi-directional substations
- energy storage systems
- energy losses
- AC/DC converter
Projects
- 1 Active
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European Partnership on Metrology
Heinonen, M. (Owner) & Nyholm, K. (PI)
EURAMET e.V. - European Partnership on Metrology
1/11/21 → 31/12/31
Project: Research