Iarnród Éireann Orders Stage V MTU PowerPacks
The title of this post, is the same as that as this article on Railway Gazette International.
The IE 22000 Class trains appear to be the main rolling stock of Irish Rail.
The Railway Gazette International article describes in detail how MTU are updating the standard diesel engines in these trains with their latest Hybrid PowerPacks.
The aim is to achieve a reduction of over thirty percent in both fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.
From reading the article, it doesn’t appear to be a challenging project, once the testing is complete.
It does appear that MTU seem to get these conversion projects right.
Progress On The Porterbrook HybridFLEX Project
There is another engine conversion project, that uses MTU PowerPacks, underway in the UK, which I wrote about in Rolls-Royce And Porterbrook Launch First Hybrid Rail Project In The UK With MTU Hybrid PowerPacks, in September 2018.
Porterbrook call it the HybridFLEX project. I wonder how it is getting on.
This article on Diesel and Gas Turbine Worldwide, which is entitled Ricardo Leading Hybrid Train Project In UK, is the last reference I can find in January 2019.
As there are over two hundred trains, that can be converted in the UK, I’m looking forward to the rolling out of Porterbrook’s HybridFLEX project.
I suspect operators are too, as they’d like to save all that diesel.
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