Modernisation Issues of Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive Power Units
Abstract
The research concentrates on the modernisation issues of inefficient diesel-electric shunting locomotives, produced in the former Soviet Union. The existing diesel-generator unit, serving as an onboard power plant can be replaced by hybridised units, with an energy storage unit acting as a peaking power source for dynamic modes. By integrating an energy storage unit into the power plant, the locomotive traction drive becomes hybridised, consuming less fuel during transients and idling.
- Publication:
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Scientific Journal of Riga Technical University. Power and Electrical Engineering
- Pub Date:
- January 2010
- DOI:
- 10.2478/v10144-010-0021-3
- Bibcode:
- 2010SJRUP..26...58H
- Keywords:
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- energy management;
- energy storage;
- rail transportation power systems