Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik, Kiel
With the foundation of Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik in Kiel, Voith Turbo now builds complete loco motives for the first time. 75 years of experience and systems know-how flow into the latest vehicles. The novel locomotives show that reliable diesel-hydraulic traction presents a competitive option in all power classes. Voith Turbo locomotives are a worthwhile alternative to existing technologies, especially in terms of consumption, output and tractive effort. In order to ensure that the various types of the modular Voith Turbo locomotive program can cope with different requirement profiles, two product families were developed: the Maxima family with its draft horse, the Maxima 40 CC, the most powerful six-axle diesel-hydraulic locomotive, has been primarily designed for cross-border mainline traffic, while the Gravita family is mainly intended for local distribution traffic and/or shunting duties.
VTLT is the manufacturer of Diesel locomotives. As a customer for large cooling units VTLT is interested in receiving the best product and to predict the affect of the unit on the overall locomotive performance already in an early design stage. Thus VTLT is the essential partner when it comes to provide the test locomotive and the testing time.
Key personel
Dipl.-Ing. C. Pöpper, Systems engineer
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Pöpper earned his engineering degree from Universität Hannover (Germany) in Mechanical Engineering. He worked in the field of rail vehicle technology and mechanics since 2002. He is responible for power units on voith locomotives including cooling systems. He will be assisted by Mrs. Dipl.-Ing. Peggy Herlinger, Design engineer and the Head of Systems Technology, Dipl.-Ing. D. Wolfgram.
Expected outcome/exploitable results and ’action plan' to get results in use
Important expected outcomes are (i) a cooling unit incorporating innovative features, (ii) the computer simulation tool for the prediction of locomotive noise emission. If the new cooling module shows the expected improvements, the implementation of the technology into the currently produced series of locomotives is planned.
In addition VTLT introduces the computer simulation tools
developed within ECOQUEST in the inhouse engineering department
to enhance its engineering capability.