Magnetically Levitated Train

Magnetically Levitated Train

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Definition:- What is a Magnetically levitated train (Maglev train)?

A magnetically levitated train is simply known as maglev train.A magnetically levitated train is a train that travels along a track, sort of like a monorail, but unlike any conventional train, it floats.

The name comes from two words, Magnet and Levitation. As the name implies, the Maglev train uses magnets to levitate off the track and to move.

1.2 About magnetically levitated train:-

A magnetically levitated train or maglev is a train like vehicle that is suspended in the air above the track and propelled forward using the repulsive and attractive forces of magnetism .Because of lack of physical contact between the track and vehicle ,the only friction is that between the carriages and air .Consequently maglev trains can travel at very high speed up to 650 km/hr with reasonable energy consumption .

There are two primary types of maglev technology. One that relies on super conducting magnets (i.e. EDS system) and a newer, potentially more economical system (i.e. EMS system) that uses permanent magnets.

Indeed, the maglev is faster than any speeding locomotive precisely because it is as much like a plane as any rail road we have known .True ,the train has no wings but no wheels or engine , either.

Transrapid ,the German firm that developed the system , describes the maglev as “The fundamental innovation in the field of railway technology since the invention of railway”.

Magnets are the attractions .first the powerful magnets levitate the train from the guideway and other magnets propel along a way.

Maglev train built in china by German companies and shanghai maglev transportation development company, it reaches 430 km/hr(280 mi/hr)-130 km/hr faster than japan’s bullet train.And even as it goes faster than any commercial vehicle without wings, Chinese train is smoother and quiter than Amtrak’s wheel-on –rail Acela ,the state of the art in the United States –which pokes along when it can at a maximum 240km/hr.

After many false starts and the completion of full-scale experimental maglev systems in Japan and Germany in the 1980s, maglev in China will finally start shuttling passengers in October in a reasonably large-scale, commercial system. The trains will run from downtown Shanghai’s financial district to Pudong International Airport, making an 8-minute run that will save about 40 minutes off the typical trip time in a taxi.

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