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Control of Railway Power Quality Conditioner for AC Electrified Railway Systems (교류 전기철도 급전시스템을 위한 철도용 전기품질 보상장치의 제어방법)

  • Park, Han-Eol;Song, Joong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.48-54
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    • 2010
  • The AC electrified railway systems have the power quality problems such as the harmonic distortion, the reactive power and the three-phase imbalance because of the electrical load characteristics of locomotives, which are non-linear single-phase. These power quality problems have a bad effect on not only AC electrified railway systems but also other electric systems connected together. The RPQC (railway power quality conditioner) can compensate such power quality problems in the AC electrified railway systems. In this paper, a novel RPQC control method based on SRF (synchronous-reference-frame) control is proposed. The proposed RPQC control method can compensate effectively the harmonic currents, the reactive power and the load imbalance. The validity and the effectiveness of the proposed RPQC control method are illustrated through the simulations.

A Study on Technology Development of High Capacity PWM Converter for Electric Vehicle (전기철도용 대용량 PWM 컨버터 기술개발에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Young-Jae;Jo, Jeong-Min;Bae, Chang-Han;Lee, Young-Ho
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.12
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    • pp.1729-1734
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    • 2018
  • Recently, interest in environmentally friendly transportation systems has been increasing, and study on railway systems has been aggressively conducted. Therefore, lots of studies have been done in railway advanced countries to improve performance of PWM converter. The research on the PWM converter for railway vehicle was mainly carried out on the converter mounted on railway vehicle such as the high-speed railway and metropolitan railway. In also, a lot of study has been carried out to improve converter performance installed in the ground. The high-capacity transform used in this paper converted from AC 22.9kV to AC 590V. The converter changed from AC 590V to DC 950V. In general, in the case of rectifier, the DC power supply system has a negative impact on inverter control characteristics because it can not avoid the pulsating component. In this study, it was performed current control for high-capacity converter using Matlab Simulink. The PWM converter is normally performed through the voltage and current at starting mode, powering mode, and braking mode. In the light-load test and the on-line test, we have studied for the PWM converter characteristics. Using this research, we have founded that the converter has excellent performance.

Reliability Analysis of AC traction System Substation by using Bayes' Theory (베이즈 이론을 이용한 교류전철변전소의 신뢰도 분석)

  • Kim, Yong-Hyun;Koo, Bon-Hui;Cha, Jun-Min;Kim, Hyung-Chul
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.445-450
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    • 2008
  • The primary role of traction power systems is to provide reliable and continuous electrical energy to satisfy traction loads. AC traction substation transforms power from generation company and supply the power to the electric railway power line. Forced outage rate(FOR) of the equipment of substation should be used in the evaluation. This paper proposes the fast and easy way to evaluate by using Bayes' theory when a new equipment is added to the existing substation facility.

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Load Flow Calculation and Short Circuit Fault Transients in AC Electrified Railways

  • Hosseini, Seyed Hossein;Shahnia, Farhad
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.2203-2206
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    • 2005
  • A load flow and short circuit fault simulation of AC electrified railway distribution systems is presented with DIgSILENT PowerFactory software. Load flow of electrified railways distribution system with concerning multi train lines and dynamic characteristics of train load is studied for different time laps. The dynamic characteristics of train load in starting and braking conditions with different starting and stopping times and its moving positions makes the load flow complicated so there is a great need in studying the effects of electrified railways on load flow. Short circuit fault transients is also studied and simulated for both power system or traction distribution system and their effects on the operation of the train sets is investigated.

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Simulator of Automatic Power Switching System (절연구간 자동절체 통과 현상 규명용 모의시뮬레이터 제작)

  • Han, Moon-Seob;Shin, Hyo-Bum;Jang, Dong-Uk
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.918-923
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    • 2011
  • On AC railway systems, the neutral sections are installed in front of substations and sectioning posts in order to avoid crash between power that have differing phases. In case railway vehicles pass through these neutral sections, it is necessary for them to switch to coasting driving by notch-off. This may reduce speed of the vehicles, resulting lowered train operation efficiency. The usage of automatic power switching systems makes it possible to pass neutral sections at notch-on, enhancing operation efficiency so that it is appropriate for high-speed railway applications. This paper introduces a simulator that assesses efficiency of automatic power switching systems in neutral sections. The is composed of a power supply system, electric railway vehicles, thyristor switches, and traction motors.

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A Study on the Countermeasures to Suppress Harmonics in the Traction Power Supply System (철도 급전시스템에서의 고조파 해석 및 대책 연구)

  • 오광해;이장무;창상훈;한문섭;김길상
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.318-325
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    • 1999
  • Modern AC electric car has PWM(Pulse Width Modulation)-controlled converters, which give rise to higher harmonics. The current harmonics injected from AC electric car is propagated through power feeding circuit, As the feeding circuit is a distributed constant circuit composed of RLC, the capacitance of the feeding circuit and the inductance on the side of power system cause a parallel resonance and a magnification of current harmonics at a specific frequency. The magnified current harmonics usually brings about various problems. That is, the current harmonics makes interference in the adjacent lines of communications and the railway signalling system. Furthermore, in case it flows on the side of power system, not only overheating and vibration at the power capacitors but also wrong operation at the protective devices can occur. Therefore, the exact assessment of the harmonic current flow must be undertaken at design and planning stage for the electric traction systems. From these point of view, this study presents an approach to model and to analyse traction power feeding system focused on the amplification of harmonic current The proposed algorithm is applied to a standard AT(Auto-transformer)-fed test system in which electric car with PWM-controlled converters is running.

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An analysis of the power quality problem at an electric train according to dead section (절연구간 통과시 전기철도 차량에 유입되는 전력 품질 분석)

  • Lee, Bong-Yi;Kim, Jae-Chul;Moon, Jong-Fil;Han, Seong-Ho;Lee, Su-Gil
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.51-53
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    • 2005
  • At the railway feeding system, a role of dead section is very important. Because, dead section is essential installation that AC feeding system meets DC feeding system or phase is changed between AC feeding systems. But, in dead section it is possible that an electric train meets interruption. In Korea, a study on the dead section isn't yet accomplished in depth. Accordingly. In this paper, when electric train is in dead-section power quality problem on electric train was dealt. Modeling and simulation using PSCAD/EMTDC was accomplished to analyze.

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Power Compensator Control for Improving Unbalanced Power of AC Electric Railway (교류전기철도 불평형 전력 개선을 위한 전력보상장치 제어)

  • Woo, Jehun;Jo, Jongmin;Lee, Tae-Hoon;Cha, Hanju
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.213-218
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    • 2020
  • In this study, we propose a control algorithm to reduce the unbalanced characteristics of a three-phase system power caused by the unbalanced load of the AC electric railway. Then, we verify its performance through the design of a power compensator and experiments applying it. Like electric railway systems, a Scott transformer is applied, and the load and single-phase back-to-back converters are connected to the M-phase and T-phase outputs. The back-to-back converter monitors the difference in active power between the unbalanced loads in real-time and compensates for the power by using bidirectional characteristics. The active power is performed through PI control in the synchronous coordinate system, and DC link overall voltage and voltage balancing control are controlled jointly by M-phase and T-phase converters to improve the responsiveness of the system. To verify the performance of the proposed power compensation device, an experiment was performed under the condition that M-phase 5 kW and T-phase 1 kW unbalanced load. As a result of the experiment, the unbalance rate of the three-phase current after the operation of the power compensator decreases by 58.66% from 65.04% to 6.38%, and the excellent performance of the power compensator proposed in this study is verified.

A Study on the Propagation of Harmonic Current in the Traction Power Supply System (철도 전력공급시스템에서의 고조파전류 확대현상에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, K.H.;Chang, S.H.;Han, M.S.;Lee, C.M.;Shin, H.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07c
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    • pp.908-910
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    • 1998
  • Modern AC electric car has PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) -controlled converters, which give rise to higher harmonics. The current harmonics injected from AC electric car is propagated through power feeding circuit. As the feeding circuit is a distributed constant circuit composed of RLC, the capacitance of the feeding circuit and the inductance on the side of power system cause a parallel resonance and a magnification of current harmonics at a specific frequency. The magnified current harmonics usually brings about various problems. That is, the current harmonics makes interference in the adjacent lines of communications and the railway signalling system. Furthermore, in case it flows on the side of power system, not only overheating and vibration at the power capacitors but also wrong operation at the protective devices can occur. Therefore, the exact assessment of the harmonic current flow must be undertaken at design and planning stage for the electric traction systems. From these point of view, this study presents an approach to model and to analyse traction power feeding system focused on the amplification of harmonic current. The proposed algorithm is applied to a standard AT(Auto-transformer)-fed test system in which electric car with PWM-controlled converters is running.

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Ripple Analysis and Control of Electric Multiple Unit Traction Drives under a Fluctuating DC Link Voltage

  • Diao, Li-Jun;Dong, Kan;Yin, Shao-Bo;Tang, Jing;Chen, Jie
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.1851-1860
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    • 2016
  • The traction motors in electric multiple unit (EMU) trains are powered by AC-DC-AC converters, and the DC link voltage is generated by single phase PWM converters, with a fluctuation component under twice the frequency of the input catenary AC grid, which causes fluctuations in the motor torque and current. Traditionally, heavy and low-efficiency hardware LC resonant filters parallel in the DC side are adopted to reduce the ripple effect. In this paper, an analytical model of the ripple phenomenon is derived and analyzed in the frequency domain, and a ripple control scheme compensating the slip frequency of rotor vector control systems without a hardware filter is applied to reduce the torque and current ripple amplitude. Then a relatively simple discretization method is chosen to discretize the algorithm with a high discrete accuracy. Simulation and experimental results validate the proposed ripple control strategy.