Vaccum Braking System

Description

In railway locomotives, vacuum brakes are first used instead of the air brakes. In, the brake pipe, vacuum pump is
used for creating vacuum. The integral construction of the brake cylinder uses this vacuum reservoir for the application of brakes. Nowadays many of the light vehicles are fitted with vacuum-assisted hydraulic braking
system in which vacuum is created from the engine which reduces the driver effort on foot pedal. The vacuum braking system was developed from above said reasons and the same analysis for implementation in both heavy and light vehicles. In this system, vacuum is created from engine and used for the making of application of brakes. The system operation is similar to air braking system. In vaccum brake system the vacuum is used rather than of compressed air which is used in air brake system.