Locomotive fuel vapor reclamation system field evaluation and cost-benefit analysis : draft final report.

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• Creators:
  Campbell, Thomas ; Parida, Basant ; Zaouk, Abdullatif K.
• Corporate Creators:
  QinetiQ North America, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research, Development and Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Diesel fuels
  • Field tests
  • Freight transportation
  • Fuel tanks
  • Locomotives
  • Performance
  • Pollutants
  • Sensors
  • Vapors
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• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Draft final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
• Abstract:
  This report summarizes the results of the work performed to install a diesel vapor reclamation unit (DVRU) on an SD70 MAC ; locomotive of BNSF Railways and its performance evaluation during freight railroad service. One complete DVRU with several ; sensors for monitoring fuel and ambient temperatures as well as the fuel vapor-to-air ratio was installed on BNSF9674. An ; electronics control unit with digital data acquisition and wireless communication over mobile network and internet constituted the ; remote DVRU data monitoring system. As BNSF9674 was deployed over its freight carrying routes, the DVRU system ; performance data could be monitored only over a very limited period of time. Often, the remote data transmission was interrupted ; due to inadvertent locomotive and/or DVRU maintenance problems. Based on one year’s experience with performance ; monitoring, it was concluded that practical difficulties with day-to-day revenue service operations may not permit smooth ; operation of the DVRU over a long period. This precluded the scope for further installation of more DVRUs on other ; locomotives. Because the amount of useful DVRU system performance data from the field tests was insufficient, a cost-benefit ; estimate was carried out while accounting for the contributions of the DVRU and return fuel cooling. In the best case scenario, the ; return on investment in DVRUs would take 15 years to recover.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFR53-12-D-00003 Task Order 009
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31370/dot_31370_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.49 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection ; Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a3af97b8beffa0983d136867563d6247b97cae321b5c5909c3a683584b6dac06