Engine room

As the engine room is called usually the space of a vehicle, are in the machine or aggregates. In buildings are large machines in machine shops or engine nacelles.

Shipbuilding

Each ship has a number of larger machinery spaces. For inland vessels and coastal vessels, the number usually limited to two machine rooms (main engine room with generators) and bow-thruster. The arrangement is very different, very by type, design and size of the ship. The machinery spaces are nowadays usually at the rear of the hull. This arrangement allows a relatively short drive shaft can be used, which reduces the stress and wear.

The engine room of a container ship can be divided roughly as follows:

Rail vehicles

Locomotives and power heads have, in contrast to railcars, where most of the art is arranged under the floor or on the roof, also a machine room. This is arranged (with power heads between cab and carriage crossing) in the center of the vehicle between the two cabs. Here, the engine room contains various facilities in diesel or electric locomotives. Together, devices for cooling of the drive units, the generation of compressed air and brake parts, vehicle battery, facilities security technology ( such as in Germany LZB - vehicle computer ) as well as facilities for vehicle control and monitoring.

The engine room of electric locomotives or power cars includes, moreover:

  • High voltage backbone
  • Transformer (possibly underground )
  • Derailleur and drive circuit groups or converter
  • If necessary facilities of the e- brake

In diesel locomotives in addition to the above facilities will find additionally:

  • Diesel engine, possibly auxiliary diesel engine
  • Hydraulic transmission or drive generator with power converters
  • Turbocharger and exhaust system
  • Generator to produce electricity for the train line (possibly with inverters) or steam boiler
  • Preheating and heat retaining device

Power plant construction

For most types of hydroelectric power plants the electricity-generating turbines standing in a separate power house. Exceptions are the underground power plants, in which the entire machine system is underground attached. The engine room (or the machine shop ) is then called in the jargon machine cavern or underground power house.

The engine room houses the central resources of the power plant:

  • Turbines - to see the types of hydroelectric power plant
  • Hydraulic starting converter - for commissioning
  • Generators, on an axis with the turbine
  • Main pump and motor generators - in pumped storage plants
  • Transformers - with underground power plants for safety reasons in a second cavern, with other hydropower plants mostly in the outdoor area

Lifting Equipment

The engine room houses the propulsion system - the engine, hence the engine room - a transport system for goods and people. Machinery spaces are found for lifts ( elevators ) in buildings, cable cars and chair lifts, inclined lifts and funiculars.

In the lift technology of mining, the detached house developed machines with the transition to civil engineering and the use of the steam engine. Now building were necessary, did the work of a weather-proof booth for the steam engine itself and the boilers to generate the steam.

Provisions elevators are registered in the Central European Standard series EN 81, concerning also includes construction, Inbetriebhaltung and emergency response machinery spaces. In Germany, the adoption of EN and additional provisions which in the technical regulations for elevators ( TRA) are summarized apply.

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