A concept for a natural gas fueled locomotive that uses a gas turbine for its prime mover is presented in this paper. Additionally, the paper compares several of the economic operating aspects of the proposed motive power concept with a modified conventional Diesel electric locomotive for natural gas operation. This proposed turbine powered concept is significantly different from conventional Diesel driven motive power or its natural gas derivative. In spite of this significant departure from the standard, there appears to be ample information to support the proposed concept technical feasibility and commercial viability. The advantage of the proposed locomotive concept over the modification of conventional motive power is that in addition to reduced energy cost and independence from the 'oil supply' the proposed gas turbine locomotive can offer improvement in productivity, availability and maintainability. These three operating aspects appear to be as important, as the original objective of fuel substitution.


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    Titel :

    A concept for a natural gas fueled locomotive that uses a gas turbine


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Konzept einer Lokomotive mit erdgasbetriebener Gasturbine


    Beteiligte:
    Donnelly, F.W. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    SAE-Papers ; Aug ; 1-16


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1989


    Format / Umfang :

    16 Seiten, 11 Bilder, 5 Tabellen, 51 Quellen


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch





    A concept for a natural gas fueled locomotive that uses a gas turbine

    Donnelly,F.W. / APP Applied Power and Propulsion,CA | Kraftfahrwesen | 1989



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