Energy Systems/Environmental Technologies

Power supply for pre-heating and pre-cooling
A.S.T. Power management systems ensure the power supply for preheating, airconditioning and frost protected parking of rail coaches and railcar trainsets. The systems have been developed in cooperation with the former BZA Munich and the DB Energie in Frankfurt and can save up to 40% of energy compared with manual operated preheating or airconditioning.

In doing so the parked train sets are preheated or airconditioned at a particular time at which the coaches have to be well-temperatured for the entering passengers.

The systems are installed mainly at interchange stations or formation yards. At depots and maintenance workshops the systems supply coaches, traction units or high speed trains with energy. Due to the unitized setup the system can be easily extended by new branch lines. Switching operations and energy consumption at the specific connection points are captured permanently by the control system and therefore can also be analysed and allocated.

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