Kanpur: Following the concept of ‘Metro Clean, Metro Green’ and to meet the purpose of energy conservation, Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Limited (UPMRC) has claimed other innovations, while carrying out the Kanpur Metro Rail project.
UPMRC claims that for the first time in India has made provisions in the Kanpur Metro Rail Project to install a special inverter device with the third DC Rail traction system to convert direct power (DC) which is regenerated through train burglary to the current alternative and the route is equal to the metro system for reused.
The Kanpur Metro Train will have an energy efficiency of around 40-45% which means to expenditure every 1000 units, up to 450 units can be regenerated through braking and reused with the help of ‘regenerative braking technology’.
There is no other Metro project in India, which runs on the third DC Rail traction system has a type of setting to save energy.
UPMRC said that currently, Bangalore, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, and the Gurgaon Rapid Metro project operate on the third DC Rail traction system in the country and no one has provisions to reuse direct energy (DC) that is regenerated by train braking.
This is because the energy is regenerated in the form of DC, while the rest of the metro system runs on the AC current.
The UPMRC has provided a special inverter for traction systems in Kanpur, which can convert 750 volts of DC currently regenerated through train braking to 33 KV AC today for reuse in the system.
Managing Director, UPMRC, Kumar Keshav, Implementing Director, “The aim of ‘Metro Clean, Metro Green’, we have made innovation for energy conservation while carrying out our projects.
In Metro projects operating with the AC traction system in this country, including Lucknow, there are provisions for energy conservation with the ‘regenerative braking’ technique, but there is no system available for the third DC Rail traction system.
With the help of this innovation, the Metro Kanpur Metro project will provide examples in terms of energy conservation for all other Metro projects in the country which operates on the third train traction system.
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