Hydrogen used as an energy carrier is a promising alternative to diesel for autonomous railway motive power, but, globally, few prototypes exist. In 2012, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers held the inaugural Railway Challenge, in which the participating teams had to develop, design and construct a locomotive to run on 10.25 inch (260.35 mm) gauge track while meeting certain set design criteria as well as competing in operational challenges. The University of Birmingham Railway Challenge Team’s locomotive design is described in this paper. The vehicle is the UK’s first hydrogen-powered locomotive and is called Hydrogen Pioneer. The drive-system consists of a hydrogen tank, a 1.1 kW proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell stack, a 4.3 kWh battery pack and two 2.2 kW permanent-magnet traction motors. The development of the locomotive, from the original concept to the final design, and the design validation are all presented in this paper. The locomotive completed successfully all challenges through which the proof of the concept of a hydrogen-hybrid locomotive was established.


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    Titel :

    Development and design of a narrow-gauge hydrogen-hybrid locomotive


    Beteiligte:
    Coombe, Duncan (Autor:in) / Fisher, Peter (Autor:in) / Hoffrichter, Andreas (Autor:in) / Kent, Stephen (Autor:in) / Reed, Daniel (Autor:in) / Rowshandel, Hamed (Autor:in) / Tutcher, Jonathan (Autor:in) / Entezami, Mani (Autor:in) / Hillmansen, Stuart (Autor:in) / Bevan, Alexander (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2016-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    12 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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