Thursday, 11th March 2020
Opening
Keynotes
Session 1: Projects
Peter Schulze (DB Netz AG, DE):
Rail link Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (BBI), project ex-ecution "in time and in budget"
Martin Meißner, Stefan Kaufhold (SPL Powerlines, DE):
Challenges in the electrification of the upgraded line Oldenburg-Wilhelmshaven
Jose Ruiz (DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH, DE); Farhad Karimi (DB Netz AG, DE); Christian Goubeau (Rail Power Systems GmbH, DE):
Overhead conductor rails in the tunnels of the Stuttgart 21 project – design, planning, approval
Session 2: Electric traction power supply systems
Christophe Keseljevic (CKrail, FR):
Conversions from DC to AC – a worldwide survey
Thomas Schaad (SBB AG, CH); Tobias Thurnherr (Hitachi ABB Power Grids, CH):
Expansion of the electric traction power supply at Lake Geneva with new converters
Thomas Pakull, Stephan Glöckner (DB Energie GmbH, DE)
Digitalization of 16,7 Hz existing substations
Christoph Hinze (Siemens Mobility GmbH, DE); Mahmoud Hassan (SNCF Réseau, FR):
FACTS as basis of smart traction power supply systems with 50 Hz nominal frequency
Session 3: Energy
Kai Wittig, Martin Bruns (DB Energie GmbH, DE):
(Charging-) Infrastructure for accumulator electric multiple units
Dr. Andriy Zynovchenko (Rail Power Systems GmbH, DE); N. N. (Hitachi ABB Power Grids, CH)
Challenges in setting up the electric traction power supply as a large island network fed by static converters
Dr. Judith Maria Böhler-Grimm (Schienen-Control GmbH, AT):
Rail energy – Quo vadis? Chance for competition and regulatory challenges
Panel discussion
Future of electric traction power supply – Where does electricity come from?
Friday, 12th March 2020
Session 4: Overhead contact lines
Dr. André Dölling (Siemens Mobility GmbH, DE); Fritjof Aufschläger (TU Dresden, Professur für Elektrische Bahnen, DE):
Modeling the life cycle costs of overhead contact line systems
Dr. Thomas Noack (TÜV Süd Rail GmbH, DE):
Continuous optimization of the contact force measuring method
Dr. Jochen Hietzge, Maximilian Franke (Institut für Bahntechnik GmbH, DE):
Contact-free optical uplift measurement – accuracy, application areas, experience
Urs Luder, Nicolas Steinmann (Alptransit Gotthard AG, CH), Urs Wili (Furrer&Frey AG):
Current collection quality in the Ceneri Base Tunnel with overhead conductor rail at 250 km/h
Session 5: Earthing, Return Circuit
Pascal Boss (Enotrac AG, CH); Patrick Burger (TBF+Partner AG, CH):
Earthing and return current system in the project perimeter of the Ceneri base tunnel
Pietro Ottini (SBB AG, CH); Martin Aeberhard (Railelectric GmbH, CH):
New concept for return conductor separation at AC/DC system separation locations
Tony Da'Costa-Green, Dominic Banham-Hall (Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, UK); Christian Vetter (Elektrotechnische Werke Fritz Driescher & Söhne GmbH, DE):
Remote securing of earthing systems
Session 6: Protection
Bernd Drapp (AP Sensing, AT); Klaus Leithner (ÖBB Infrastruktur AG, AT); Manuel Maleschitz (Honeywell, AT):
Monitoring of high-voltage cables with fibre optic sensors
Uwe Resch (DB Netz AG, DE); Matthias Beermann (Dipl.-Ing. H. Horstmann GmbH, DE):
Localisation of short-circuits in overhead contact line systems – from pilot to release
Dr. André Dölling (Siemens Mobility GmbH, DE); Ronny Berry, Jürg Bebi (Rhätische Bahn, CH):
Design, piloting and testing of a catenary rupture detection system for the Vereina tunnel of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB)
Hans Ullmann (Siemens Mobility GmbH, DE):
Protection concept for the electric traction power supply system in the ABS 48 Munich – Lindau project
Closing words
Conference languages
The conference languages will be German and English. For non-German speaking participants an English simultaneous translation will be provided.
