Abstract:The paper aims to contribute to the use of electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) sets for boosting voltages of contact lines in urban and suburban railway traction systems. Different electrical configurations of contact lines are considered and investigated. For each of them, proper mathematical models are suggested to evaluate the electrical performances of the contact lines. They give rise, also, to sample design procedures for the sizing of the most appropriate energy storage systems, to be distributed along the lines, for boosting line voltages and avoiding undesired voltage drops. A numerical example based on the "Cumana" suburban Naples railway network is presented to give an idea of the weights and sizes of electric double layer capacitors needed to boost the voltage of a sample contact line. In particular, three different EDLC systems, for a overall installed energy of 9.6 kWh, have been placed nearby the stations presenting the highest voltage drops during the most representative situation of trains' service. The new voltage drop is equal to 32% of that obtained in absence of EDLCs.

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The paper deals with sample structures of active filters. The aim is the evaluation of an analytical model for analysing the influence that filter parameters have on behaviour of the device. The results give also the opportunity to carry out useful guidelines for filter design. By means of well-known mathematical procedures the traditional mathematical model of active filter is arranged to be suitable of an analytical solution of the system of differential equations. Solutions are expressed as a function of the time and by means of inner parameters. Therefore it is possible a simple evaluation of the influence of the parameter values on output filter currents

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