ENERGY EFFICIENCY

   
Energy Savings with Inesscon's
High-Conductive Contact-Rail (HCCR) Technologies

  
Power-conductor (third-rail) components must carry significant loads of 10,000 KVA or more. In order to transfer this much power efficiently, the third rail conductor must be designed to the highest level of conductivity.

Anything less than the utmost in conductivity will result in unacceptable IR losses.

The vast majority of the heavy rail mass transit districts worldwide are still operating their systems with conductors having a unit resistance of 4.0 microohm/foot or more.  Many transit districts have converted their system to the 2 microohm/foot resistance industry standard with plans to lower this to 1.5 or 1.0 microohm/foot in accommodation of the new CBTC Train Control Systems.

   
Inesscon's newest power-conductor development, the 
"High Conductive Contact Rail" (HCCR) is capable of 
performing at a resistance of 1.0 microohm/foot or less.

Converting traction power systems from a 4.0 microohm/foot conductor to the Inesscon HCCR rail with 1.0 microohm/foot will reduce the electrical losses by 75%, while a conversion from a 2.0 microohm/foot system will still reduce the losses by 50%. Typically, large transit districts pay between $400 and $500 million dollars for energy over the average lifetime (25 to 30 years) of a power conducting rail system. New York City's bill exceeds $3 billion. These improvements in the reduction of electrical losses will yield significant energy savings amounting to tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year.

Please contact our office for additional information.
   

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