Hydrogen – fueled air – rail opens a new momentum for zero – carbon rail transit

In recent years, our rail transit began to diversify and three-dimensional process. Among them, the low volume rail transit as a supplement to the large and medium volume came into being, at the same time with its advantages of high flexibility, low cost and fast construction, can be multi-directional service in urban areas, peripheral groups, industrial parks, tourist attractions, etc.

It is worth mentioning that low transportation capacity rail transit adopts suspension innovation system driven by hydrogen energy. By relying on the green and low carbon of hydrogen energy, it has created new strategic opportunities and technological innovation highlights for our country’s development of sustainable transportation goals. The low-carrying capacity rail transit becomes a “national business card” representing China’s urban rail business after high-speed railway, which fills the “blank” in this field.
To cope with the new challenges of the urban rail transit iterative development in our country, and over the years from the process of rapid development of urban traffic congestion and pollution problems, the well-known domestic industrial investment enterprises “jing LAN group” Tang Kong iron group, hand in hand, step into the track rail transit industry, launched the world’s first with independent intellectual property rights of hanging rail transit system, namely, new energy empty tin.

It is understood that the new energy is empty tin “jing LAN group” joint Tang Kong iron in the company’s chief scientist, national 973 plan, the chief scientist, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and the United States advanced technology center wan-ming zhai led research and development team, to overcome the foreign technology blockade, after more than 10 years of independent innovation, launched in 2016 100% of the world’s first independent intellectual property rights of hanging rail transit system.

At the same time, air rail spans the fields of medium and low traffic volume, passenger and cargo, and integrates the latest technologies such as intelligent control, new energy power, compound application and landscape combination.

It is worth noting that nearly ten academicians of China and the Senate, including Liu Youmei, Du Yanliang and other professionals in the industry, have successively evaluated the technology as “with the international leading level”.
In terms of product application, the air rail test line has been officially suspended in Chengdu since 2016. At present, the equipment has been safely tested for more than 100,000 kilometers under various working conditions. At the same time, the country’s first air rail tourism demonstration line in Dayi, Chengdu, has completed rail service and is scheduled to open to the public this year.

It is understood that air rail has its unique product advantages compared with the traditional mode of transportation

First, the viaduct has independent right of way. The air rail system can be laid along the elevated road green belt, and the air rail train is suspended below the guide rail beam, which is not affected by road traffic conditions on the ground, fire, flood and other natural disasters, and plays the role of transporting relief materials and personnel in emergency.

Second, the product is widely used. The air rail system has a moderate traffic volume, which can not only meet the needs of multi-system coordinated development of super-large and mega urban rail transit branch lines, suburban lines and connecting lines, but also meet the traffic volume needs of urban rail backbone network in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, this model has strong riding experience and broad vision, and can also be used as a rapid transportation connection and sightseeing tool for tourist cities and scenic spots, with strong scene adaptability.

Third, it is environmentally friendly. The climbing ability of air rail is three times that of subway, and the minimum turning radius is one tenth of subway. With flexible route selection and strong adaptability, air rail can effectively reduce the impact of expropriation and demolition on the land along the line. The composite application of air rail (above the beam bridge can be used as a pedestrian walkway) improves the utilization rate of urban roads.
With the development of dual carbon target and fuel cell demonstration urban agglomeration, hydrogen fuel rail transit has become the development direction and research focus of green, energy-saving and low-carbon technology.
The hydrogen fuel cell air rail is jointly developed by Air Rail technology team and domestic hydrogen energy and fuel cell industry leader Shenzhen Hydrogen Blue Times.
Compared with the traditional contact rail and lithium ion power battery scheme, hydrogen fuel cell power supply overcomes the pain points and shortcomings of lithium ion power battery power supply, and has more significant application advantages

The low temperature environment adaptability is better, hydrogen fuel cell empty iron can still start normally at -30℃ environment condition without attenuation;

Longer range, hydrogen fuel air rail can reach more than 420 kilometers;

More efficient operation, hydrogen fuel cell air iron each refueling time of hydrogen is about 15 minutes, its range can reach 420 kilometers, can meet the needs of all-day operation.
At the same time, hydrogen fuel cell power supply is more economical than traditional contact rail power supply. It is estimated that the cost of hydrogen fuel cell scheme is about 20% lower than that of contact rail scheme in the life cycle. In addition, due to the cancellation of the contact rail along the line, reduce the comprehensive maintenance and labor input.

Focus on internal work,

Air rail industry created a number of awards
It is worth mentioning that the successful research and development of this empty rail system has filled the blank of the urban rail transit system and is an important achievement in the field of Chinese railway and rail transit with independent intellectual property rights and breaking the monopoly of foreign technology.
In the industry and academic circles, the research and development results have been selected as ESI highly cited papers in the 2018 “Top Ten Scientific and technological Advances in Chinese Universities”, won a number of provincial and ministerial awards and been selected in the Achievements exhibition of the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up, which has attracted wide attention.

In the domestic market, Air Railway has won recognition and cooperation opportunities from many central enterprises with its outstanding technical highlights and broad application scenarios.
Tang Kong iron in currently, and car in China, the China railway, China railway construction, China building, China will build, China China metallurgical, oct enterprises all the way around the area of international cooperation, such as composite innovative applications, such as tourist traffic operation, intensive research and planning, the consequences will be empty iron creates a wider space.

In the international market, the attention to air rail is also gradually increasing. In recent years, the Air rail project has signed Mous with countries including Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Ghana and Nepal.

Among them, the Dubai Air rail project in the United Arab Emirates has been commissioned by the Dubai government to complete the feasibility study of the project by systra of France, and the Ghana Air rail project has been led by a Chinese central enterprise to carry out the investment agreement consultation, which has entered the countdown to the start of construction.

As an important part of green transportation, rail transit undertakes the important task of urban transformation and upgrading. Therefore, it is of great significance for the transportation sector to achieve carbon peak as soon as possible and promote the comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation of transportation to realize the coordinated development of low-volume rail transit and large and medium-sized transportation represented by air rail and promote the demonstration application of hydrogen energy.