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Rail industry - Speciality lubricants for trains

Rail industry - Speciality lubricants for trains
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Rail industry - Speciality lubricants for trains

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Overview: This document serves as a comprehensive guide on the use of specialty lubricants by Klüber Lubrication for the rail industry. It emphasizes the importance of selecting appropriate lubricants to ensure the smooth operation of trains and infrastructure, thereby reducing maintenance costs and enhancing performance across various weather conditions.
Application Overview: The document details the application of lubricants for various rail components, including wheel flanges, couplings, pantographs, wheelset bearings, gearboxes, traction motors, brakes, doors, and air compressors. Each component requires specific lubricant compositions for optimal performance.
Drives and Chassis: This section highlights lubricants used for traction motor bearings, wheelset gears, and cylindrical and tapered rolling bearings. Products such as ISOFLEX TOPAS L 152 and Klübersynth GE 4 75 W 90 are noted for their extended relubrication intervals and thermal resistance.
Bogies: Lubricants for bogie components, including screw and bolt connections and wheel flanges, are discussed. Products like STABURAGS NBU 30 PTM and Klüberrail LEA 62-2000 are recognized for their ease of application and biodegradability.
Coaches and Connectors: The document describes lubricants for doors, linear guides, seals, buffer heads, and automatic couplings, with emphasis on products like ISOFLEX TOPAS NB 52 for their wear protection and water resistance.
Infrastructure: Lubricants for points and slide plates are covered, highlighting products like Klüberrail AL 32-2000 for their eco-friendliness and ease of application.
Conclusion: Klüber Lubrication offers a range of tailor-made solutions for the rail industry, focusing on extending maintenance intervals, reducing lubricant quantities, and supporting environmental protection efforts through biodegradable products.
Specifications and Product Composition:
  • STABURAGS NBU 30 PTM: Composed of mineral oil with barium complex soap and a high percentage of solid lubricant, designed to prevent seizure and facilitate dismantling of screw connections, with good water and corrosion resistance.
  • Klüberbio LO 32-2500: Made with ester oil, calcium soap, and solid lubricant, significantly reducing wear on contact wires.
  • Klüberrail AL 32-2000: An eco-friendly, biodegradable lubricant with ester oil and calcium soap, offering low adjustment forces in switches and good water resistance.
  • Klüberrail AL 32-3000: Similar to AL 32-2000 but with a thinner consistency, sprayable down to −10 °C.
  • Klüberbio ALO 32-4000: Slightly viscous, biodegradable, and environmentally compatible.
Application Procedures: Products are applied using spray or brush methods, with specific temperature ranges for effective application. Long relubrication intervals reduce maintenance frequency.
Recommendations and Best Practices: Preliminary field tests with selected products are recommended. Consultation with Klüber Lubrication is advised for specific applications and potential sample testing.
Company Information: Klüber Lubrication München SE & Co. KG is a global specialist in tribological solutions, offering innovative and high-performance lubricants for over 80 years. The company reserves the right to change technical data without notice, emphasizing the importance of consultation for specific applications.
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your global specialist Detailed information Line clear! Speciality lubricants for more reliability and efficiency

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Application overview 4 Drives and chassis 6 Bogies8 Coaches and connectors 10 Infrastructure12 2 B094003002 / Edition 07.12

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Speciality lubricants from Klüber Lubrication – for more reliability Clearing the line with high-quality speciality lubricants The rail industry has its own special challenging requirements for lubrication. Trains have to work reliably in any weather conditions, they should run on time, offer a comfortable ride and carry goods safely. With Klüber Lubrication speciality lubricants, you make sure the complex interaction of trains and infrastructure is kept running. The right lubricant for the maintenance of bogie components, doors and points will reduce operating costs reliably and efficiently....

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panthograph air compressor door brake traction motor gearbox wheelset bearing wheel flange coupling 5

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Drives and chassis Module Application Lubricant composition traction motor bearings service temperature < 100 °C fully-synthetic hydrocarbon oil with lithium soap service temperature > 100 °C ester oil mixed with PFPE, PTFE and a polyurea thickener wheelset gears wheelset fully-synthetic hydrocarbon oil with high additivation cylindrical and tapered rolling bearings base oil mixture of mineral oil and PAO with lithium complex soap thickener bolts of wheelset bearing housing mineral oil with barium complex soap and a high percentage of solid lubricant curved gear couplings gear teeth mineral oil...

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Product Benefits for your application ISOFLEX TOPAS L 152 –– Extended relubrication intervals –– Good thermal resistance –– Low start-up torque at low temperatures –– Successfully used by international OEMs and operators Klübersynth BHP 72-102 –– Very good performance at high bearing temperatures –– Long relubrication intervals –– Successfully used by international OEMs and operators Klübersynth GE 4 75 W 90 –– Fully synthetic gear oil with special additives for particularly high thermal resistance –– Considerably extended oil change intervals compared to mineral oil-based gear oils –– Approvals...

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Bogies Module Lubricant composition bogies screw and bolt connections mineral oil with barium complex soap and a high percentage of solid lubricant bogie wheels 8 Application wheel flanges ester oil with bentonite thickener and solid lubricant

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Product Benefits for your application STABURAGS NBU 30 PTM –– For easy dismantling of fasteners, also after longtime use –– Protects against tribo-corrosion –– Very good water and media resistance –– Good corrosion protection –– Also available as spray Klüberrail LEA 62-2000 –– Sprayable fluid grease –– Lubricant is not flung off the wheel flange, even at high speeds –– Good wear protection –– Readily biodegradable base oil acc. to. OECD 301 F 9

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Coaches and connectors Module Application Lubricant composition doors functional surfaces, locks, springs, star wheels, mounting rails, torsion springs hydrocarbon oil with barium complex soap linear guides / drive spindles mineral / ester oil mixture with lithium soap seals, T > −25 °C PFPE oil with PTFE thickener seals, T < −25 °C PFPE oil with PTFE thickener buffer heads automatic couplings air compressors mineral oil with aluminium complex soap and a high percentage of light-coloured solid lubricant couplings, coupling heads, main bolts, coupling rods, electronic couplings, etc. hydrocarbon...

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Product Benefits for your application ISOFLEX TOPAS NB 52 –– Fully synthetic long-term grease with good wear protection –– Very good water and media resistance –– Good low-temperature characteristics –– Good oil retention for better adhesion, also at high temperatures –– Successfully used by international OEMs and operators –– Also available as spray ISOFLEX LDS 18 Spezial A –– Dynamically light long-term grease –– Good corrosion protection –– Good water resistance –– Low friction coefficient at high speeds –– Low start-up torque, also at low temperatures BARRIERTA L 25 DL –– Smooth opening and...

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Infrastructure Module spray application with spray equipment on slide plates, sprayable down to −20 °C ester oil with calcium soap, very thin consistency spray / brush application on slide plates, sprayable down to −10 °C ester oil with calcium soap, thin consistency brush application on slide plates ester oil with calcium soap, slightly viscous consistency crossovers fishplates / bolt connections mineral oil with barium complex soap and a high percentage of solid lubricant power supply 12 Lubricant composition points Most important selection criterion Application contact wire ester oil with...

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Product Benefits for your application Klüberrail AL 32-2000 –– Readily biodegradable, eco-friendly lubricant –– Low adjustment forces in switches, also at low temperatures –– Good water resistance –– Good corrosion protection –– Long relubrication intervals –– Easy application with portable spray equipment Klüberrail AL 32-3000 Klüberbio ALO 32-4000 –– Readily biodegradable for good environmental compatibility –– Low adjustment forces of the point, also at low temperatures –– Good water resistance –– Good corrosion protection –– Long relubrication intervals –– To be applied preferably by brush...

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Publisher and Copyright: Klüber Lubrication München SE & Co. KG Reprints, total or in part, are permitted only prior consultation with Klüber Lubrication München SE & Co. KG and if source is indicated and voucher copy is forwarded. The data in this document is based on our general experience and knowledge at the time of publication and is intended to give information of possible applications to a reader with technical experience. It constitutes neither an assurance of product properties nor does it release the user from the obligation of performing preliminary field tests with the product selected...

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