National Academies Press: OpenBook

Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities (2010)

Chapter: About the National Academies

Get This Book
Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF.

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF.
« Previous: TRB Disclaimer
Page 2
Suggested Citation:"About the National Academies ." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2010. Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/22911.
×
Save
Cancel
Page 2

Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.

Next: Foreword »
Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities Get This Book
×
Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities
MyNAP members save 10% online.
Login or Register to save!
Download Free PDF

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 51: Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities is designed to help identify and implement effective wayside energy storage systems for rail transit. Energy storage applications addressed in the report include braking energy recapture, power quality voltage sag regulation, peak power reduction, and the development of energy storage substations.

READ FREE ONLINE

  1. ×

    Welcome to OpenBook!

    You're looking at OpenBook, NAP.edu's online reading room since 1999. Based on feedback from you, our users, we've made some improvements that make it easier than ever to read thousands of publications on our website.

    Do you want to take a quick tour of the OpenBook's features?

    No Thanks Take a Tour »
  2. ×

    Show this book's table of contents, where you can jump to any chapter by name.

    « Back Next »
  3. ×

    ...or use these buttons to go back to the previous chapter or skip to the next one.

    « Back Next »
  4. ×

    Jump up to the previous page or down to the next one. Also, you can type in a page number and press Enter to go directly to that page in the book.

    « Back Next »
  5. ×

    To search the entire text of this book, type in your search term here and press Enter.

    « Back Next »
  6. ×

    Share a link to this book page on your preferred social network or via email.

    « Back Next »
  7. ×

    View our suggested citation for this chapter.

    « Back Next »
  8. ×

    Ready to take your reading offline? Click here to buy this book in print or download it as a free PDF, if available.

    « Back Next »
Stay Connected!