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Railways-PTLOC CHistoryScrn PDF
Railways-PTLOC CHistoryScrn PDF
Case History
Indian Railways (IR) has one of the largest and Frequent S&T Failures
busiest rail networks in the world, transporting
over 18 million passengers and more than 2 And Excessive Downtime
million tonnes of freight daily. IR operates over Each engine manufactured by DLW and DMW
200,000 freight cars, 50,000 coaches and 8,000 requires lube oil cooling by a heat exchanger
locomotives with 1.4million employees specified by the IR Research Designs and
Standards Organization (RDSO). Traditionally,
IR also owns locomotive and coach the engines were fitted with
manufacturing facilities: Diesel Locomotive shell & tube lube oil coolers,
Works (DLW) in Varanasi and Diesel Loco whose substandard performance
Modernization Works (DMW) in Patiala. prompted RDSO to review
DLW manufactures locomotives, and DMW alternatives. Problems faced
manufactures components, remanufactures included oil overheating with
traction motors and engine blocks and upgrades increased fuel consumption and
existing locomotives to current railway standards reduced power, damage to piston
and technology.
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I.D.
Fan Plate Type
Lube Oil Cooler
Radiator (PTLOC) Diesel
Engine
Oil
Lube Oil Gearbox And
Tank
Filter Generator
Oil
Pump
The SUPERCHANGER GX-18 The locomotive diesel engine pressure lubrication system comprises positive-
has logged more than a decade displacement, engine-mounted suction and pressure circulating pumps, a lube oil filter
of PTLOC service without and the PTLOC.
unscheduled downtime.
rings and bearings, oil leakage caused by shell-side welding Tranter designed and proposed a SUPERCHANGER gasketed
failures attributed to pressure fluctuations and vibration, tube plate & frame heat exchanger that would meet the RDSO
failures with interchannel mixing of water and oil, difficult and published PTLOC specifications. Test exchangers were subjected
dangerous R&R of the large shell & tube units, costs connected to a 2-year proving process, including vibration and fatigue
with excessive locomotive maintenance and downtime, loss of testing and field testing. Based on the successful conclusion
coolant and oil and inventory cost of maintaining spare units. of the lab and field tests, IR awarded Tranter an initial 3-year
contract for PTLOCs in 1999.
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Transportation-HISTORY-28-0210 670045 2010 Tranter, Inc.