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We have developed an environmentally friendly cleaning installation to clean bogies of trains.
Different interventions to this cleaning installation not only reduce the environmental impact but also the consumption of water and energy, which can significantly reduce the annual running costs.
Such a cleaning system for bogies of trains does away with the old way of working, whereby the bogies were cleaned in three stages and in three different workstations.
Problems here were the high water consumption, the large amounts of processing wastewater, the high energy consumption and the unpleasant working conditions for the operators. In order to avoid these problems, we have designed and produced a prototype of an environmentally friendly washing installation to clean bogies of trains.
This environmentally friendly wash installation to clean bogies of trains had to meet the following basic requirements:
Furthermore, it had to be a sustainable technological development. This entailed some additional criteria:
In addition, a final inspection is required in order to verify that the bogies are sufficiently clean and that there are possibilities in order to adjust the process parameters.
This cleaning installation means an environmental benefit of 10,784 Pt (ecopoints) per bogie with 2,640 cleaned bogies per year, which amounts to 28,740 Pt per year (or 28,740 Pt/year of use x 3 Euro/Pt = 85,410 Euro/year of use).
This equates to a total (environmental) benefit of 85,410 Euro per year.
For the development of this environmentally friendly cleaning installation to clean bogies of trains, we were awarded as laureate of the Innovation Award 2012 in the category of small and big companies during the ceremony of the Kempen Innovation Awards.