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Case Study 1: AC Return and Earth Currents and Electromagnetic Interference

Session
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
11:45
Duration: 32 mins
Publication date: 16 Aug 2022
Location: Kingston, Kingston Lecture Theatre, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Part of event Railway Earthing & Bonding

About the session

* EPR on Grid Sites

* Induction from Railway OHL system

* Induction from Tower lines

* Cable screen voltage control

* Operation and Maintenance requirements of the OHL (induction)

* Pipeline interference (pipe bridges & parallel)

Keyword:: Railway Earthing and Bonding

Channels

Transport

Transport

Speaker

Alex Gavrilakis

Network Rail, Senior Design Engineer

ALEX has been with Network Rail since 2016 as a Senior Design Engineer, specialising on EMC and Earthing and Bonding, based at the London Waterloo station NR offices. Before joining NR, he spent 2 years with Atkins as a Senior Systems Engineer and from 2004 to 2014 he was an engineer with ERA Technology (now RINA). His research topic during his PhD was the EMC modelling of screened communication cables. Alex’s main current technical focus is on the EMC effects of railways traction power and harmonics on railway systems and third-party interfaces. He is a member of the IET’s professional committees on both Railways and Electromagnetics and has chaired a number of Rail EMC IET events. He is a Chartered Engineer, IET Mentor and a Senior Member of IEEE.