Romania’s state-owned passenger railway supplier CFR Călători has contracted ABB to improve its electrical locomotives.
19 Electroputere LE 5100 locomotives will obtain “full traction chains” to enhance their operational effectivity and working velocity.
ABB will present transformers, converters and electrical motors, which can be fitted to the locomotives by native specialists Reloc.
The mannequin of locomotive was in-built Romania from the late Nineteen Sixties till the Nineteen Nineties, however has since seen little improve or enchancment work. Meaning the ageing public transport runs at a median of simply 40 km/h.
Based on ABB, the usage of fashionable IGBT traction converters with new traction transformers and AC traction motors will allow total drive practice effectivity enhancements of round 5% versus the previous traction system with thyristor rectifier and DC motors. One other 15% vitality financial savings are anticipated to be achieved by means of the recuperation of vitality throughout braking.
“We’re delighted to be working with Reloc on this crucial retrofit venture that helps put CFR on observe to finally enable its passenger trains to run at a high velocity of 160 km/h,” defined Roger Affolter, head of retrofit at ABB Traction.
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The venture is funded by Romania’s Nationwide Restoration and Resilience Plan (PNRR) supported by the EU.
