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Siemens Education. Topic 1: The Inspired Bus Company. The Inspired Bus Company. Overall learning objectives: To explore the challenges facing bus designers when designing the power system for a bus for an urban environment. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Topic 1: The Inspired Bus Company
Siemens Education
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Overall learning objectives: To explore the challenges facing bus designers when designing the power
system for a bus for an urban environment.
To investigate how different solutions can be identified and evaluated.
To collaborate to present recommendation for an effective solution.
Overall learning outcomes: To have investigated and summarised key features of alternatives.
To have presented a well deserved case for a solution.
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The Inspired Bus Company
‘Leon’s London’
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Leon’s London
Why are there different kinds of passengers at different times of the day?
What impact does traffic congestion have on the bus journey?
Why is traffic pollution an important factor in the design of the bus?
What would be the problem in this context with using a bus that simply had a
diesel engine driving the wheels?
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Battery Power
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Battery power
How would the batteries be charged up in a full sized vehicle?
Identify where energy is being transferred from and to.
Describe the environmental impact of this power system.
What might affect the operating range of this vehicle?
Summarise the advantages and disadvantages of this source.
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Fuel cell
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Fuel cell
How would this work in a full sized vehicle?
Identify where energy is being transferred from and to.
Describe the environmental impact of this power system.
What might affect the operating range of the vehicle?
Summarise the advantages and disadvantages of this source.
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Diesel engine
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Diesel engine
Identify where energy is being transferred from and to.
Describe the environmental impact of this power system.
What might affect the operating range of the vehicle?
Summarise the advantages and disadvantages of this source.
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Racing car
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Bicycle brakes
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Bicycle brakes
What happens to the temperature of the brakes if the bike wheel is set in
motion and the brakes applied?
What happens to the temperature of the brakes if the speed is increased?
What happens to the temperature of the brakes if the speed is held for longer
before braking?
Where does the energy go when the wheel has stopped?
How repeatable are these results?
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Using kinetic energy
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London bus
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Hybrid energy systems
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Suggest an effective power source and explain why
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Suggest an effective power source and explain why
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Siemens ELFA drive system video
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Group discussion
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Route one: rail/bus station shuttle service
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Route two: ‘inner circle’ service
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Route three: city-airport link