SHUNTING LOCOMOTIVE Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC B61C3/00 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to railway transport and aims at increasing efficiency of shunting. Proposed shunting locomotive with bonneted body comprises diesel engine with intake, discharge and fuel manifolds, and cooler trunk. Hydrogen generator with hydrogen discharge line is arranged additionally under bonnet, between diesel and said cooler trunk, to run on hydrolysis of solid reagent with alkaline solution. Hydrogen generator comprises hydrogen collector, system to feed reagents into hydrogen generator and tank to store hydrolysis products. Note here that hydrogen discharge line is communicated via hydrogen collector with intake and discharge manifolds, while aforesaid tank is connected in parallel with discharge manifold.

EFFECT: higher safety of operation and decontamination of exhaust gases.

1 cl, 1 dwg