[Lecture] Railway energy and its environmental impact
Speaker:Dr. Zhendong Liu, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Time:09:00, July 16, 2023, GMT+8
Venue:Room 218, A1 Building, State Key Laboratory of Rail Transit Vehicle System, Jiuli Campus, Southwest Jiaotong University
Abstract:
Since the world is paying more and more attention into environmental issues, rail transport as an energy-efficient transport mode has the responsibility to improve energy efficiency and to reduce CO2emissions. Various actions have been taken in Europe to support the development of energy-efficient rail vehicles and to effectively use the existing railway infrastructure. This lecture will give a brief overview of the two ongoing railway energy-related projects in Shift2Rail.
Biography:
Zhendong Liu works as tenured researcher in rail vehicle technology as KTH from 2020. Since 2020 he is Member of the Swedish electrotechnical standardization committee (railway part). From 2020 he is member of EN standard revision group (EN50591: Railway applications - Rolling stock - Specification and verification of energy consumption). He studied at Harbin Institute of Technology and Tianjin University. From 2008 to 2013 he worked at China Academy of Railway Sciences (CARS). In 2017 he gained PhD under Prof. Stichel and in 2019 he finished his Postdoc under Prof. Berg. His research interests are railway energy, railway traction/braking, pantograph-catenary dynamics, climate adaptation, interior comfort, and maglev system.
