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http://dx.doi.org/10.7782/JKSR.2016.19.5.617

Structure and Control of Smart Transformer with Single-Phase Three-Level H-Bridge Cascade Converter for Railway Traction System  

Kim, Sungmin (Division of Electrical Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Seung-Hwan (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul)
Kim, Myung-Yong (Metropolitan Transportation Research Center, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Railway / v.19, no.5, 2016 , pp. 617-628 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes the structure of a smart transformer to improve the performance of the 60Hz main power transformer for rolling stock. The proposed smart transformer is a kind of solid state transformer that consists of semiconductor switching devices and high frequency transformers. This smart transformer would have smaller size than the conventional 60Hz main transformer for rolling stock, making it possible to operate AC electrified track efficiently by power factor control. The proposed structure employs a cascade H-Bridge converter to interface with the high voltage AC single phase grid as the rectifier part. Each H-Bridge converter in the rectifier part is connected by a Dual-Active-Bridge (DAB) converter to generate an isolated low voltage DC output source of the system. Because the AC voltage in the train system is a kind of medium voltage, the number of the modules would be several tens. To control the entire smart transformer, the inner DC voltage of the modules, the AC input current, and the output DC voltage must be controlled instantaneously. In this paper, a control algorithm to operate the proposed structure is suggested and confirmed through computer simulation.
Keywords
Solid state transformer; Cascade H-Bridge converter; Three-level single phase converter; Multi-level converter; Voltage balancing control;
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