Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switcher Locomotives
Peter Eggleton Mech Eng Railway Context Advisor to Hydrogenics Corp. ! TELLIGENCE Group Consultants in Transportation Technology Saint-Lambert (Montreal), Canada
11th International Hydrail Conference University of Birmingham, England July 3 - 5, 2016
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 1 Content of Presentation
• Canadian Rail Sector Particulars ! • Hydrail 2013 Background to Current Activities ! • Industrial Switching Sector Characteristics – Types of operations – !Types of locomotion • TractivePower TP56 Industrial Switcher Locomotive – Based on Recycled Equipment – !Diesel Motive Power Baseline Configuration • Hydrogen Fuel Cell Sizing and Retrofit Design – Establish Duty Cycle of Envisaged Deployment Site – Size Fuel Cell, Buffer Battery, Hydrogen Gas Reservoir, BOP – Envisaged HFC Motive Power with Power-to-Gas H Supply ! 2 Annex Listing Other Studies Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 2 Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 3 Environmental Impact of Diesel Prime Movers on Canadian Railways * • Canadian Railway Diesel Motive Power Fleet: – Mainline Freight Locomotives - 2,000 } – Yard, Road Switching Locos - 840 } – Passenger Locomotives - 230 } Total: 3,070 ! • Annual Diesel Fuel Consumption (litres): – Freight operations - 1.9 billion } – Passenger (VIA + Commuter) 100 million } Total: 2 billion ! • Annual Diesel Exhaust Emissions (tonnes):
– Greenhouse Gases (CO2 equiv) - 6 million – CACs (NOx, HC, CO, PM, SOx) - 102 thousand ! * Source – Railway Association of Canada ‘Locomotive Emissions Monitoring Program - 2013’ Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 4 Some Background to Current Hydrail Activities
• 1) Hydrail 2013 in Toronto was venue for Hydrogenics !Corporation to identify new rail opportunities for HFC. • 2) Telligence Group was retained to undertake HFC application study for the Toronto UP Express Shuttle !railcars to be deployed for 2015 Pan-American Games. • 3) OEM supplying UP Express railcars was reluctant due to schedule pressure, so other OEMs canvassed. ! • 4) Press Release May 26, 2015, on the Hydrogenics- Alstom Transport Agreement to Commercialize HFC. ! • 5) Telligence Group also examined HFC retrofitting of TractivePower TP56 industrial switcher, Commuter Locomotives and DMU railcars as HFC demostrators.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 5 Industrial Switching Locomotion
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 6 Why Consider Industrial Switching Locomotives for HFC Powering? • Respond to national GHG reduction goals, plus promotion of electrification of transport; ! • Avoid CAC emissions in constrained areas: – Such as Industrial Terminals in sensitive urban areas, – Movements involving significant diesel engine idling, – Near food processing and similar health sensitive sites, – Permitting access to unventilated warehouses, tunnels, – Assembling commuter trains in electrified coach-yards. ! • Simple platform to facilitate HFC retrofit.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 7 Competing Mobile Railcar Movers and Switcher Locomotives
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 8 HFC Powering Study of TractivePower TP56 Industrial Switcher Locomotive •
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 9 TP56 Body is Half of an EMD SD40-2 6-Axle 3000 hp Freight Locomotive
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 10 HFC – Hybrid Configuration for Powering Locomotive
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 11 Prime Mover Location on TractivePower TP56 Industrial Switcher Locomotive
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 12 Methodology for Sizing HFC System
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 13 TP56 Shunting Hopper Cars at Grain Elevator, Cloverdale, B.C., Canada
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 14 Datalogger 2-hour Trace of Actual kW Drawn by TP56 Traction Motors during Shunting Grain Hopper Cars at Elevator
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 15 Hybrid HFC – Battery Buffer Options for TractivePower TP56 Industrial Switcher
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 16 Fuel Cell / Buffer Battery PowerPack
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 17 Hydrogen Gas Reservoir
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 18 HyPMtm HD90 Technical Data
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 19 HyPMtm HD90 Performance Data
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 20 Currently Seeking Support for a Demonstration of a Total HFC / Power-to-Gas System
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 21 With Appreciation for Data and Information from:
TractivePower Corporation, North Vancouver, B.C. Hydrogenics Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario Thank you ! Peter Eggleton Principal Consultant ! ! TELLIGENCE Group Saint-Lambert (Montreal), Quebec, J4S 1H4, Canada ! Tel: 1+450-672-5026 Email: [email protected]
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 22 ANNEX LISTING OTHER STUDIES
• UP Express Shuttle from Toronto’s Union Station to Pearson Airport ! • Commuter Locomotive for GO Transit Service ! • Retrofit of Railcar for Ottawa O-Train Service
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 23 HFC Powering Study of DMU for Toronto Union Station – Pearson Airport Shuttle
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 24 Post Pan-American Games DMU to EMU Conversion ??
Step 1: DMU Parts Removal Step 2: Retrofit Electrical Parts for Catenary Powering
Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 25 HFC Powering Study of Heavy Rail Commuter Locomotive
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 26 Speed Profile of GO Transit Burlington – Toronto – Oshawa Commuter Line
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Motive Power for Industrial Switchers 27 HFC Study of Retrofitting DMU Railcars on Ottawa O-Train •
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