Improving the technology of operating electric locomotives using electric power storage device

Abstract

The article discussed the questions of the railway transportation organization along the transport corridors passing through the territory of Russia using the innovative locomotives of new generation with the polygon’s structure of the transportation process’ organization. There was carried out an analysis of the railway car standing at the docking stations of the single-phase alternating and direct current. The results of simulation modeling of the transportation process on the railway sections, which have a docking station, are given. There are shown the positive effects of the perfection of the polygon’s exploitation technology of the locomotive fleet due to introduction of the double feed electric locomotives to the transport corridors, manifesting in the cargo delivery’s time reduction due to reduction of the ready train’s standing time at docking stations twice, in comparison with the time during exploitation of the only single-system electric locomotives, and also in increasing of the area’s speed of trains in the all polygon of the heavy trains’ turnover. The usage of the double feed electric locomotives in areas, which contains different kinds of the current, allows increasing the quality parameters of the traction electric rolling stock’s exploitation. There were considered the ways to increase the energy efficiency of the double feed electric locomotives, particularly by applying the electric energy storage unit for connection to the DC link of the electric locomotive’s power circuit. The economic assessment of exploitation of the two-systems electric locomotives was carried out.