System integration of China’s first PEMFC locomotive

In the face of growing environmental pollution, developing a fuel-cell-driven shunting locomotive is a great challenge in China for environmental protection and energy saving, which combines the environmental advantages of an electric locomotive with the lower infrastructure costs of a diesel-electric locomotive. In this paper, the investigation status and the development trend of the fuel-cell-driven shunting locomotive were introduced. Through innovation of the power system using fuel cells, an experiment prototype of a fuel-cell shunting locomotive was developed, which would reduce the effects on the environment of the existing locomotives. This was the first locomotive to use a proton exchange membrane fuel-cell (PEMFC) power plant in China. From October 2012, the authors started to test the fuel-cell power plant and further test runs on the test rail-line in Chengdu, Sichuan. The achieved encouraging results can provide fundamental data for the modification of the current individual fuel cell locomotives or further development of the fuel-cell hybrid ones in China.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-013-0020-0
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2013 Journal of Modern Transportation
• Authors:
  • Chen, WeiRong
  • Peng, Fei
  • Liu, Zhixiang
  • Li, Qi
  • Dai, Chaohua
• Publication Date: 2013-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 163-168
• Serial:
  • Journal of Modern Transportation
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
  • ISSN: 2095-087X
  • Serial URL: http://jmt.swjtu.edu.cn/EN/volumn/home.shtml
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric locomotives; Energy conservation; Environmental protection; Fuel cell vehicles; Fuel cells; Pollution; Systems engineering
• Geographic Terms: Chengdu (China); China
• Subject Areas: Environment; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I90: Vehicles;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01502143
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 23 2013 10:38AM