Research and Analysis of Cooling System for Diesel Locomotive

Abstract

With the continuous development of diesel locomotives in the direction of single power, the heat dissipation ofthe locomotive cooling system is getting bigger and bigger, and its performance directly affects the economy andreliability of the locomotive. Due to the limitation of locomotive axle load and structural space size, there is a greattechnical problem between the cooling system design and the arrangement of the cooling device and the overalllayout of the locomotive. The increase in the number of radiators, making the number of cooling system processesare correspondingly increased, resulting in locomotive cooling system water resistance and water system pressure aregreatly improved. The traditional cooling system form and the radiator structure are diffi cult to meet the developmentrequirements of high power locomotive. Based on the conventional cooling system design method, a multi-processradiator is proposed. The multi-process cooling system has the advantages of high cooling effi ciency, simple structure,small auxiliary power consumption of the pump and high reliability of the cooling system components. In this paper,the cooling system and its function, the existing cooling technology and the multi-process radiator are studied andanalyzed, and the three-process radiator and the single-process radiator are tested and compared. In this paper, a newmulti-process radiator structure scheme is proposed for the design requirements of CKD9 diesel locomotive coolingsystem. The program eff ectively uses the radiator cooling water and cooling air temperature diff erence, to achieve thepurpose of increasing heat dissipation.