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GRIFFIN

GRIFFIN

A multi-system GRIFFIN is the first trac­tion vehicle from the family of four-axle elec­tric and die­sel loco­mo­ti­ves, offe­ring their users the whole range of trans­port and tech­ni­cal possibilities.

The loco­mo­tive is inten­ded to pull fre­ight tra­ins of a weight of up to 3200t with the speed of up to 140 km/h and pas­sen­ger tra­ins with the speed of up to 200 km/h.

Tech­ni­cal para­me­ters of GRIFFIN are tailo­red to users’ indi­vi­dual requ­ire­ments. It is cha­rac­te­ri­sed by the highest safety level, full ame­ni­ties, high com­fort of the driver’s work, and the intel­li­gent sys­tem of energy mana­ge­ment. Thanks to its modu­lar struc­ture, GRIFFIN is offe­red in seve­ral ver­sions based on maxi­mum num­ber of com­mon com­po­nents.

Some of the basic featu­res of GRIFFIN inc­lude motors powe­red by IGTB-based trac­tion inver­ters, the on-board dia­gno­stics sys­tem with com­pre­hen­sive visual infor­ma­tion and a data recor­ding module or the camera sys­tem. The loco is adap­ted for ERTMS and GSM-R installation.

Meeting the EU and UIC requ­ire­ments, the loco­mo­tive has not lost ano­ther of its major advan­ta­ges, namely its com­pe­ti­tive price.

GRIFFIN  is an ideal response to varied needs of the Euro­pean mar­ket the­re­fore it had its offi­cial unve­iling during the INNOTRANS 2012 Inter­na­tio­nal Trade Fair in Berlin.

The company’s pro­duc­tion sys­tem and high stan­dards con­fir­med by such cer­ti­fi­ca­tes as the Inter­na­tio­nal Rail­way Indu­stry Stan­dard IRIS (manu­fac­tu­ring, design, deve­lop­ment and main­te­nance acti­vity for the loco­mo­ti­ves) and the PN-EN ISO 9001:2009 guaran­tee the highest Euro­pean quality of GRIFFIN locomotive.

Per­for­mance characteristics:

  • Tech­ni­cal para­me­ters tailo­red to users’ indi­vi­dual needs;
  • Capa­ble of pul­ling fre­ight tra­ins of the maxi­mum weight of up to 3200t as well as pas­sen­ger tra­ins with the maxi­mum weight of up to 800t;
  • Asyn­chro­nous drive;
  • Motors powe­red by IGBT-based inverters;
  • Microprocessor-based ste­ering system;
  • On-board dia­gno­stic sys­tem with full visual infor­ma­tion and a data recor­ding module;
  • Inge­nious use of electricity;
  • High tech­ni­cal availability;
  • Adap­ted for ERTMS and GSM-R installation;
  • Modu­lar structure;
  • The highest safety level;
  • Spa­cious driver’s cab com­pliant with the EN 1527 standard;
  • Inte­gral welded struc­ture with crum­ple zones;
  • Safety cage with anti-climbing system;
  • Modern fire detec­tion and extin­gu­ishing system;
  • Camera sys­tem;
  • Adap­ted for ERTMS and GSM-R installation;
  • Enhan­ced driver’s wor­king conditions;
  • Full ame­ni­ties;
  • Envi­ron­men­tally frien­dly technologies;
  • Eco­no­mi­cal;
  • Ccom­pe­ti­tive price.

Bogies:

  • Two two-axle bogies in the Bo’Bo ’ sys­tem with indi­vi­dual drive for each axis;
  • Welded hollow-girder frame construction;
  • Trans­mis­sion of trac­tion force thro­ugh the pin and draft bar atta­ched to the frame;
  • Lubri­ca­tion sys­tem for wheel flan­ges with bio­de­gra­da­ble grease;

Power­train:

  • Mono­block whe­els with a nomi­nal dia­me­ter of 1250 mm;
  • Bra­king discs fixed on both sides of the wheel;
  • Asyn­chro­nous trac­tion cage motors with power of 1400 kW each;
  • Inde­pen­dent cooling of each motor;
  • Spur gear;
  • Axle bearing with coni­cal rol­ler bearings, tem­pe­ra­ture and speed sensors.

Suspen­sion:

  • Pri­mary level: two sets of coil springs moun­ted direc­tly on both sides of the whe­el­set axle box;
  • Secon­dary level: set of large-scale spi­ral fle­xi­coil springs;
  • Hydrau­lic shock absor­bers for muf­fling ver­ti­cal vibrations

Loco body:

  • Inte­gral welded design;
  • Crum­ple zones;
  • Ssa­fety cage in driver’s cab;
  • Anti-climbing sys­tem;
    Modu­lar structure;
  • Roof divi­ded into three sec­tions offe­ring easy access to the machi­nery compartment;
  • Ergo­no­mic, two-persons loco cab;
  • Double func­tion air con­di­tio­ning system;
  • Four came­ras acting as rear view mirrors;
  • Two came­ras sho­wing the image of draw-bars and screw couplings;
  • Modern fire detec­tion and extin­gu­ishing system.

High vol­tage elec­tri­cal circuits:

  • Two or four single-arm pan­to­gra­phs with inde­pen­dent con­trol sys­tem and anti-drop system;
  • Highly relia­ble UR26 high-speed cur­rent limi­ting air cir­cuit bre­aker made by Secheron;
  • Inter­fe­rence filters;
  • Trac­tion trans­for­mer to lower the over­head line vol­tage of 15 kV16,7Hz or 25kV/50Hz suita­ble for trac­tion converters;
  • Two blocks of power sup­ply to the drive, each equ­ip­ped with two AC/DC converters;
  • Three-phase inver­ters with IGBT trans­i­stors and a DC/DC conver­ter to adjust electro-dynamic bre­aking power;
  • 2 x 130 kW sta­tic conver­ter of the out­put vol­tage of 3 x 440 V AC, 60 Hz and 24 V DC;
  • Indi­vi­dual lubri­cant cooling sys­tem for each of the sup­ply blocks.

Low-voltage elec­tri­cal circuits:

  • 24V con­stant vol­tage obta­ined from an addi­tio­nal bat­tery char­ger powe­red with 3×440 V. Pro­vi­ding power sup­ply to: ste­ering cir­cu­its, high-speed circuit-breaker, measu­ring conver­ters con­trol sys­tem, bat­tery char­ging sys­tem, con­trol panel equ­ip­ment, pneu­ma­tic ste­ering sys­tem, inte­rior and exte­rior ligh­ting, wind­screen wipers.
  • Top-class 335Ah FNC bat­tery system;
  • Loss of sup­ply from the over­head line does not lead to swit­ching off exter­nal ligh­ting for 5 hours. When not used, the con­trol sys­tem swit­ches off all unne­ces­sary rece­ivers to save power.

Loco dia­gno­stic and control:

  • Micro­pro­ces­sor — based con­trol system;
  • Main loco controller;
  • Drive con­trol­ler;
  • Two inde­pen­dent panels to display drive para­me­ters and dia­gno­stics in each cab;
  • Event recor­der syn­chro­ni­zed to the elec­tro­nic speedometer;
  • Ready for GPS-based equ­ip­ment sho­wing dia­gno­stic data.

Func­tions:

  • Ove­rall con­trol of loco­mo­tive operation;
  • Set­ting the trac­tive effort;
  • Fully auto­ma­tic drive con­trol with speed set by loco driver;
  • Star­ting and bre­aking pro­cess con­trol­led by anti-slip sys­tem indi­vi­du­ally on each wheelset;
  • Con­trol of pneu­ma­tic system;
  • Adju­st­ment of the electro-dynamic bre­aking power;
  • Full loco­mo­tive dia­gno­stics with the event recording.