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Project Presentation
On
E-Highway – Future of Road Transportation

SUBMITTED TO:- SUBMITTED BY:-

MR. ZUBBAIR AHEMED KHAN VIVEK SAINI
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING NITIN KUMAR BHUKHAR
KARAN SINGH RATHORE
Content
 INTRODUCTION
 HYBRID-DRIVE TECHNIQUE AND EFFICIENT POWER SUPPLY
 PANTOGRAPHS
 CATEGORIZATION OF PANTOGRAPHS
 PARTS OF PANTOGRAPHS
 FUNCTIONING AND WORKING OF E- HIGHWAY AND
RESULTS
 PRE-REQUISITES AND ASSUMPTIONS
 MERITS OF E-HIGHWAY SYSTEM
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES
 Introduction
 Every nation aims at a future which doesn‟t need non-
renewable sources of energy. As there is a presumed
growth of demand for transport, the quantity of emission
of carbon dioxide is more than that of country‟s
economy. In order to minimize the effect of the fossil
fuel gases, a new, harmless and an efficient technique or
system should be practiced. The E-Highway system is
introduced with such a motto. ERS are principally, the
electrified roads enable to the vehicles on the road to
perform using power transfer. Generally, power source
integrated into the road surface by externally driving
energy to an electric engine.
HYBRID-DRIVE TECHNIQUE AND EFFICIENT
POWER SUPPLY

 The modern e-Highway integrates the railway

technology as resource efficient to attain the
feasibility of road transport economically by
utilizing the existing infrastructure and
reduces energy use. These modern highway
reformed hybrid trucks are provided with
electricity from overhead connection lines
through a dynamic pantograph, which can
couple and uncouple the overhead cables to
speeds of up to 90 kmph.
Illustrates a truck driving on an electrified road
using overhead lines.
 PANTOGRAPHS

 It is a structure with mechanical linkage therefore it works by

forming a parallelogram. Technically, pantograph is a
conducting arm extending above the rolling stock, collecting
traction current from Over-headed line system. Modern
Pantograph principle is derived from a linked support
structures called “Scissors mechanism”. The system is used
to make contact with wire or cable overhead. Depending on
the locomotive speed, pantographs come in all shapes and
sizes. A pantograph's basic parts are a lower arm(s) pivoting
against the roof of a carriage / loco and attached to the
upper arm attached to the head or pan of a collector. The
head is the pantographer's only part to touch the pick - up
wire. The current is gathered on the head through metalized
carbon strips.
 CATEGORIZATION OF PANTOGRAPHS

 Under 125 mph (200 km / h) operate low

 A separate system is used for high
 Under 125 mph (200 km / h) operate low

 Speed pantographs. To carry out the operations, these

systems use springs and air pressure. The up springs are
in the stretched position when folded down to the carriage
/ loco roof. Then the pantograph raises in a cylinder called
the operating cylinder by letting air, this moves a piston
forward and pulls the control rod and moves a slotted
connection to control the process. Then the springs take
over and lift the head to contact the wire (through
leverage). The reason the air cylinder has is to compress
the spring down. Air is exhausted from the cylinder to
lower the pantograph and the down spring acts on the
device to lower the head to the carriage / loco roof.
 A separate system is used for high

 Speed pantographs for locomotives with a

higher speed exceeding about 125 mph (200
km / h). These are elevated by pressure- air
via a spring - free regulator. This set keeps
the overhead wire a constant force. When
the overhead wire's height falls, air is bled
from the system and air is added when the
train leaves the tunnel and the overhead
wire's height rises.
 PARTS OF PANTOGRAPHS

A pantograph generally contains the following structural features:

 Pan head - A carbon strip that acts as a conductive and dry lubricant is the contact
surface between rolling stock and over headed line wires.
 Upper arm.
 Lower arm.
 Damper assembly - provides better control for pan lifting up/down than simply
making use of compressed air.
 Air cylinder - acts like a piston-cylinder. Compressed air pushes the piston, hence
extending the piston rod to raise pantograph; vice versa for pan drop.
 Raising/Counterbalance spring - provides pantograph articulation against vibrations
and harmonics.
 Base frame - base of the pantograph assembly.
 Foot insulator - insulating assistance that safeguards the pantograph assembly on
the top of the rolling stock.
 Air feed insulator - an insulator, solid state device that permits gas into the cylinder.
 FUNCTIONING AND WORKING OF E-
HIGHWAY AND RESULTS
 Supply of power and
its distribution

 Dynamic pantograph

 Hybrid drive system

Supply of power and its distribution
 Substations provide the power supply
constantly throughout the e- Highway. In
order to distribute the power to the hybrid
trucks, a specifically designed two-pole
contact line system provides a safe and
secured supply of energy although the
speeds exceed up to 90kmph.
 Dynamic pantograph
 The major advancement of this modern highway
system is the active pantograph. At various speeds, it
can couple and uncouple the vehicle with the contact
lines. Pantograph is to transfer the energy directly
from overhead contact line to the electric motor of the
truck that is carried on the e-Highway. A sensor
technology that is designed exclusively permits the
dynamic pantograph to alter its place under the
contact line so as to counteract the lateral movements
of the truck in the lane. This technique reduces the
wear across the pantograph and ensures the durability.
 Hybrid drive system
 Within the facilities of electrification, the E- Highway truck‟s
hybrid drive system makes it highly electrical operation. It even
assures the feasibility to shift between hybrid and electric modes
while overtaking, to traverse the non-electrified constituents of the
highway, to accomplish the initial and final mile of each drive.
This modern highway system is consistent and corresponding to
other substitute fuel-based technologies and allowing the access to
choose a different kinds of hybrid configurations like parallel or
serial concepts and integrations with on-board energy storage. At
the time of braking, the electric machines function as generators,
which permits otherwise unutilized braking energy to be provided
into the onboard energy storage or back into the grid to be utilized
as required by other trucks on the e-Highway.
 PRE-REQUISITES AND
ASSUMPTIONS
 This technique is applicable for heavy trucks/vehicles
exclusively.
 The height of the overhead cables should be
approximately 5.5-6.0m.
 The approximate consumption of the power by the
truck/vehicle is 1.1-1.5 kWh (unit)/km.
 All trucks should maintain a maximum speed of 90kmph.
 For an effective feasibility, it is less suitable for least
trafficked roads.
 For every 3km, the traction substations should be
available.
 MERITS OF E-HIGHWAY SYSTEM

 It is a highly energy efficient system.

 It minimizes the operating cost.
 An instant and prompt integration into existing
infrastructure is possible.
 It is a safe, reliable and open technology.
 CONCLUSION
 It is hereby to conclude that the E- Highway system not only
enhances the benefit of reducing the harmful CO2 emissions into
the atmosphere but also improves the nation‟s economy by its
reliable system. The electrification of roads/highways will enable
evident decrement in CO2 emissions and ensures a sustainable
supply of energy. The significant advantage in this system is that
Electricity can be produced in several ways i.e. through
conventional power plants and also from renewable sources.
 This modern electrifying highway is twice as efficient as internal
combustion engines. Besides this, this is a noiseless system which
turns out as an eco-friendly technique in transportation sector. The
power consumption is less i.e. running cost is less when compared
to that of conventional petroleum based transportation.
 REFERENCES
 “Electric Road Systems- A feasibility study investigating a possible future of road
transportation” by Archit Singh Master of Science Thesis EGI_2016-090, MSC,
KTH Sustainable Energy Engineering, Energy and Environment, SE-100 44
STOCKHOLM.
 Siemens, "Into the future - with e-Highway," Siemens, Munich, 2012.
 “The impact of an Electrification of Road Transportation on the Electricity system
in Scandinavia” by Maria Taljegard, Department of Space, Earth and Environment,
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 2017.
 Siemens, „”Highway, -Innovative solution for heavy road transport” AG 2016.
 Siemens, “eHighway-Electrified heavy duty road transport” AG 2015.
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