China’s first clever heavy-haul electrical locomotive formally rolled off the product order in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, Might 9, 2024. (Photograph/China Information Carrier)
(ECNS) — China’s first clever heavy-haul electrical locomotive formally rolled off the product order in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province on Thursday.
It’s the international’s maximum robust everlasting magnet direct force electrical heavy-haul freight educate with a most towing talent of 10,400 kilowatts.
In comparison with a conventional electrical locomotive, this newly produced style can building up capability through just about 1,200 metric lots, and annual capability through just about 280,000 metric lots.
The eight-axle locomotive is supplied with the sector’s first high-power silicon carbide converter with adjustable switching frequencies starting from 500 hertz to two,000 Hz, which is able to adapt to extra advanced talent grid situations.
With 3 world-leading applied sciences, the freight educate can save 330,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy a occasion pace its force overhaul durations are larger from 1.2 million kilometers to two.4 million kilometers.
