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The utilization of installed power capacity of internal combustion engines (ICE) in motive power units (especially in shunting locomotives and locomotives for industrial transport) is very low. The mean output of ICE in this operational mode is about 15 – 20 % of its installed power. The result is that most of the time the internal combustion engine works in regimes that are far from optimum mode...