New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) Board of Administrators authorized a agreement to accomplish key state-of-great-fix routine maintenance on the engines of the ALP-45 locomotive fleet. The engine overhauls will make it possible for the locomotives to manage their present EPA Tier III emissions specifications and proceed the environmental positive aspects they provide as opposed to the older locomotives they changed.
“Keeping our trains in a condition of very good mend is critically essential to acknowledging the environmental added benefits these locomotives offer you,” reported New Jersey Office of Transportation Commissioner and NJ Transit Board Chair Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti. “Performing this maintenance keeps these engines operating cleanly although minimizing the effect on our surroundings.”
“Aligned with NJ Transit’s commitment to sustainability, the locomotive engine overhaul authorised by our board these days will manage compliance with EPA polices for Tier III emissions, which has resulted in a important reduction in once-a-year greenhouse gasoline emissions,” reported NJ Transit President and CEO Kevin S. Corbett. “The overhaul will have the added benefit of enhancing general rail assistance dependability for our prospects.”
The ALP-45 fleet is made up of 35 locomotives, which began moving into service in 2012 and can work underneath electric powered or diesel electric power. This overall flexibility helps make them critical belongings to the system. Just about every locomotive contains two Caterpillar 3512 High definition high-pace diesel engines which, to continue to be compliant with EPA polices, must have all emission related maintenance for each the First Machines Manufacturer’s maintenance directions.
The board has approved NJ Transit to enter a contract with Foley-Caterpillar of Piscataway, N.J. to overhaul the 70 engines (two per locomotive) at a expense not to exceed $34,854,248.48 billion, furthermore five p.c contingency.
The motor overhaul is demanded at approximately 18,000 several hours of operation and contains:
- Motor inspection and replacement of pieces this sort of as turbochargers, cylinder heads, gasoline injectors and pistons
- Replacement of Diesel Oxidation Catalyst
- Substitution of motor mounts
- Substitution of generator coupling aspect
- Overhaul of generator
The Tier III emissions benchmarks of the ALP-45 fleet, when they were put into services for NJ Transit, recognized an estimated emissions reduction of approximately 83 per cent Particulate Matter and 42 {09e594db938380acbda72fd0ffbcd1ef1c99380160786adb3aba3c50c4545157} NOx annually.
To further guidance NJ Transit’s purpose of a lessened carbon footprint, 25 new Tier IV compliant twin run locomotives continue on to get there and are becoming set into company from buys in December 2017 (17) and July 2020 (8). At this time, 13 of the 25 locomotives have been set into company, and the 14th is being commissioned. There is an approximated emissions reduction of around 93 percent Particulate Subject and 85 percent NOx per year when when compared to the oldest of the diesel locomotives, which will be retired.