EAST COAST RAILWAY Electrical Department Demand No.16 Sl. No. 01.

Name of the work Allocation PH:36 Anticipated Cost (000s of Rs) 23873.719

Energy Conservation on East Coast Railway

DRF CRRM(-) NET

JUSTIFICATION In view of steep depletion of fuels and increase in demand of electricity, energy conservation has become central focus for all efforts aimed at energy savings. Railway Board has issued several guidelines on energy conservation from time to time. East Coast Railway has taken several measures towards energy conservation in line with Railway Board guidelines. With the advent of better technology, non traction energy has considerable scope for achieving energy conservation. So a comprehensive proposal has been worked out for implementation of various energy conservation measures over East Coast Railway. The brief justification of each item is furnished below:

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Programmable timer switches for street light system - Programmable timer switching system is a power management system for conservation of energy by facilitating selection of switching operations through real time clock based on seasons and sun set/sun rise of the time zone. Generally, the switching system is often poorly maintained and managed, leading to large scale wastage of electricity. This timer provides the electricity utility with the tool to both monitor and control energy usages. By this method, we can, not only minimize our manpower involvement but also conserve electrical energy.

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Occupancy sensors for lights, fans and air conditioners - The main feature of occupancy sensors for lights, fans and Air conditioners is that they sense the presence of human body by thermal sensing and movement. It is well proven that occupancy sensors generates a substantial energy saving in most area of application with a short turn around and payback period with increase in lamp life, reduced maintenance cost, and automation of lights.

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Automation of pumps - The pumps provided at way-side station and at dispersed location of a single station for water supply to stations and different Railway colonies are being operated by the station staff or by a single electrical staff looking after more than one pump house. Especially during summer, lots of difficulties are being experienced in maintenance of these pumps due to burning of windings due to dry running of these pumps and a lot of electrical energy as well as water is being wasted in normal days due to non switching off of the pumps in time. To avoid such leakage of revenue towards the energy charges and for frequent maintenance, the work of atomization of pumps has been proposed. The automation of pumps facilitates automatic switching ON and OFF, toggling of pumps, auto changeover in case of failure of a pump and protection against phase reversal, single phasing, over load, under voltage, over voltage etc. 4. LED based name board - LED based lighting system is the most advanced upcoming system in the world. It is the most energy efficient lighting system available. Apart from lowest consumption of electrical energy, the LED has long burning hours, are highly reliable and maintenance free. It has a low pay back period, reduced maintenance cost and high energy saving. 5. Controlling of 70% and 30% of platform lighting by signal sensoring units one of the important areas for saving of power exist is controlling of 70% and 30% circuits of platform lights. The system works by sensing the signal of the platforms and switching ON or switching OFF of platform lights within a stipulated time.

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