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http://dx.doi.org/10.7782/JKSR.2012.15.4.357

A Study on the Leading Phase Operation of Single Phase PWM Converter Train  

Kim, Baik (Department of Railroad Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Railway / v.15, no.4, 2012 , pp. 357-363 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a new operation method for the single phase PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) converter train. Recently, the trains adopting the PWM converter have become the majority in the electric locomotives since there are distinct advantages over the predecessors, which can be operated at near unity power factor. However, a slight modification of the control scheme makes this kind of vehicles run in the region of leading power factor. Although this feature seems to be of no significant use by itself, the leading phase operation can improve the voltage profile and the line loss of the feeding systems is decreased by compensating the reactive power loss along the line when it considered together with the feeding systems. This method is even more economical and efficient comparing with the installation of SVC that is mainly used for this purpose since the train can become a movable compensator. With the conditions and some essential formula for the leading phase operation, a new power factor control algorithm has been proposed to implement this scheme. The results of simulation through SIMULINK model show that the proposed method is suitable enough for practical use.
Keywords
PWM converter; Feeding systems; Reactive power loss; Voltage profile; Line loss;
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