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US 5,961,567 AGranted
Method and apparatus for performance based assessment of locomotive diesel engines
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsSteven Hector Azzaro, Warren Frank Bessler, Christopher Edward Wolfe
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Abstract
This invention is directed in general to a locomotive diesel engine, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for performance based assessment of a locomotive diesel engine.
Claims5
A locomotive control system for performance assessment of a locomotive engine, said control system comprising:
- a controller;
- at least one sensor coupled to said controller, said at least one sensor located proximal to said locomotive engine so as to gather actual performance data from said locomotive engine;
- wherein said controller monitors locomotive current operating condition and utilizes the current operating conditions to calculate models of predicted performance output;
- and
- wherein said controller compare said models of predicted performance output with said actual performance data to monitor deviations therefrom.
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