Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Electric Railways Operation

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	420-4007/02
Abbreviation	EED
Course title	Electric Railways Operation
Credits	8
Coordinating department	Department of Electrical Engineering
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Václav Kolář, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures
1. Electric Traction – Basic Definitions
2. Dynamics of Train Movement
3. Power-Engineering of Electric Railways
4. Contact Lines
5. Connection of Electric Railways to Energy Power-System
6. Traction Substation
7. Traction Transformer Substation
8. Supplying of Track Safety Equipment
9. Electrical Equipment of DC Locomotives
10. Electrical Equipment of AC Locomotives
11., 12. Influence of Electric Railways on Supplying Power-System
13., 14. Electrochemical Corrosion of Subterranean Constructions

Practices
1. Calculation of Electric Energy for Electric Railways
2. Calculation of Electric Energy for Electric Railways
3. Calculation of Allocation of Traction Substation
4. Specification of Individual Projects.
5., 6. Excursion to a Traction Substation
7. Measurement of Earth Electric Field
8., 9. Excursion to Locomotive Repair Pit
10. Consultation of Individual Projects.
11., 12. Excursion to Central Control of Electric Supplying of Electrical Railways
13. Final Consultation of Individual Projects.
14. Presentation of Individual Projects

Projects:
- power consumption calculation of the train
- determination of power of locomotive
- voltage calculation in particular railway segment

Literature

[1]Kiebling, Puschmann, Schemieder; Contact Line for Electric Railways, Publicis Corporate Publishing, Mumich Erlangen, 2001.

Advised literature

[1]Steimel, A.: Electric Traction - Motive Power and Energy Supply, DIV Deutscher Industrieverlag, 2014
[2] Biesenack,H.; Hofmann,G. u. a.: Energieversorgung elektrischer Bahnen, B.G. Taubner Verlag Wiesbanden 2006, ISBN 13 978-3-519-06249-3

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