Diesel-Electric Locomotive Energy Recovery and Conversion

TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Transit Project 67: Diesel-Electric Locomotive Energy Recovery and Conversion explores efforts to optimize Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) technologies for minimally invasive retrofitting of large internal combustion engines equipping locomotives. WHR technologies aim at recovering at least a portion of the high grade wasted thermal energy and converting it to useful power, resulting in lower fuel consumption and pollutant emissions.