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An analysis of the operation of electric locomotives on certain sections of railways shows that their power is used irrationally and electric locomotives are operated with low energy indicators, especially on long-distance flat stretches, which indicates that there are reserves for reducing the consumption of electric energy. The purpose of the work is to determine the optimal value of the rated power of electric locomotives by minimizing the electricity consumption on the site and to estimate the loss of electric energy from the non-optimal use of electric locomotives' power. To achieve this goal, an equation was drawn up for the dependence of the electric power consumption on the traction of an electric locomotive on the value of its rated power. To find the optimal value, this equation was differentiated by the value of the rated power of the electric locomotive and solved using the Cardano method. The expression allowed us to determine the minimum consumption of electric power is the rated power of the electric locomotive, depending on the required for a given traffic conditions and to evaluate the variation of energy consumption from non-optimal use of its structural capacity. The obtained equations allowed us to solve the problems of choosing the optimal value of the rated power of electric locomotives and evaluating the irrational consumption of electric energy from the non-optimal use of their power and can be used to determine the optimal parameters of electric locomotives. The conclusion is made about the importance of choosing the optimal power values of electric locomotives in order to obtain the highest technical and economic indicators during their operation.

The wet method of cleaning the blast furnace gas from the particles of grate dust is one of the most common. The hollow nozzle scrubber is the device for wet cleaning of blast furnace gas in which the cleaning of blast furnace gas is carried out due to the interaction of particles of grate dust with droplets of dispersed technical water. The principle of cleaning the blast furnace gas in the hollow nozzle scrubber is based on the inertial mechanism of collision of grate dust particles with droplets of dispersed process water. After the particles are wetted, stick together and fall out of the flow of the cleaned gas under the influence of gravity. In this paper, we propose a method for calculating the efficiency of blast furnace gas purification in a hollow nozzle straight-through scrubber, which is based on the division of the volume of this gas purification apparatus into even sections. Because the trajectory of the droplet in the blast furnace gas flow in the hollow nozzle scrubber has a parabolic shape, radial component of the absolute velocity of the droplet s taken into account in this technique to determine the efficiency of catching dust particles. The correction factor in the expression for determining the fractional efficiency coefficient of the blast furnace gas purification from the grate dust determines the presence of «dead zones» when the dusty gas is irrigated with technical water sprayed by involute injectors. In addition, the presented method takes into account the increase in the efficiency of cleaning the blast furnace gas due to the process of condensation of water vapor from the flow of dusty gas in the lower part of the hollow nozzle scrubber.