• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.1438-1444
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• 2007

Standard Gate Turn Off (GTO) Thyristor drive technology results in inhomogeneous turn-on and turn-off transients which in turn needs costly dv/dt and di/dt snubber circuits. Added to this GTO is bulky in size, needs external cooling, slower switching time etc. The development of high voltage Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) have given new device advantage in the areas where they compete with conventional GTO technology. Indian Railway has developed first IGBT based traction converter and was commissioned in November 2006. Some of the supremacy of IGBT are smaller in size, no external cooling is required, built in power supply which enhances reliability, lower switching losses which leads to higher efficiency, reduced gate drive, high frequency operation in real time etc. These advantages are highlighted along with IGBT Traction system in operation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.24-26
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• 1995

The Development of A.C. Induction Motor for Railway Rolling Stock. The traction motor is designed as 4-pole induction motor with self ventilation. The winding insulation is throughout of materials of class C. The rotor is designed as a squrrel rotor with copper bar and casting. The rotor speed is detected by means of a pulse generator. The newer tection motor have no casting(frame). Punched-in holes make up the air duct and transfer the heat losses in complete. Maximim motor rpm is higher due to rotor construction. New is the entry of water-cooled traction motors in urban, However the water cooling design in - unfortunately - not applicable in traction motor.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10c
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• pp.215-217
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• 2008

DC fraction system can damage human and other facilities due to the rising of rail potential. Therefore the earth fault detection relay protects system using rail potential induced in train operation and ground fault. However the conventional protection system cannot operate due to the fault resistance and might operate unwanted voltage rising due to the other substation ground fault. So this paper models DC traction system using PSCAD/EMTDC and simulates the rail potential rising. We can estimate the rail potential rising in DC traction system through the various simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11d
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• pp.372-374
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• 2002

In this paper, we studied for performance of traction and braking for on-line test and evaluation of korean high speed rail vehicle. It is composed of 6 DAMs(Data Acquisition Modules), 2 monitoring modules and 1 main computer. The software should set and control the hardware of the measuring system, perform the analysis and calculation of measuring data and interface between users and the measuring system. As a result, It has been shown a good performance of traction and braking for test vehicle.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07f
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• pp.1947-1950
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• 1998

GTO inverter used for traction motor drives includes harmonics in the output current and torque by the limitation of switching frequency. However, the hybrid PWM method, using SPWM in low frequency range and SHE PWM in upper frequency range, can be obtained the relative less harmonic characteristic. The transient reaction, which the magnetic flux and the torque is altered and instantly the large current is flowed, may be produced at the mode change. This paper presents the techniques which can reduce the transient reactions produced in the gear changing of inverter fed traction motor drives operating in the hybrid PWM. The results are verified by the simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07b
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• pp.495-498
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• 1997

In order to enhance the driveability of multi-wheel-drive electric vehicle fitted with a traction control system a traction control algorithm is proposed. Numerical computations show that the driveability could be considerably enhanced with respect to that of equivalent torque distribution vehicle.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.378-380
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• 1998

In this paper, to analyse the temperature rise of the traction motor the methods evaluating the heat sources and heat transfer coefficients are represented. And the results of temperature analysis of the 3- designed cases of traction motor also are represented. In case of KERI01, the tempeature rise of the rotor is higher than DW01 and DW02. In the stators, case of DW01 is presented higher temperature rise than DW02 and KERI01.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.452-454
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• 1999

In this paper, sample coils for stator form-wound winding of traction motor were made for the accelerative thermal degradation composed of heat, vibration, moisture and overvoltage. In progress of test periods, diagnosis tests such as insulation resistance, dielectric loss and partial discharge were investigated. Reliability and expected life were evaluated on the insulation system for 200 class traction motor considering various environmental stress.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.474-476
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• 1999

This paper presents the vector control of induction motor for traction drives. Especially, the PWM mode control method is well described to be selected as the change of speed to meet the wide speed range of the traction motor. Asynchronous space vector PWM mode and synchronous one pulse mode are basically used under the full speed range with the overmodulation PWM mode for the soft transfer between them. The validity of this proposed control scheme is verified with the simulation results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.319-321
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• 1998

Some design technologies of AC traction motor for rolling stocks are presented. AC Traction motors for rolling stocks are operated in worst conditions such as frequent mechanical vibrations, compact design with limited mounting space, severe thermal stress at outside, driven with nonsinusoidal voltage waveform inverters, and so on. Therefore, design procedures must be carefully investigated in the viewpoint of theoritically and practical use. Design procedure contains, the motor size determination, electromagnetic circuit design, insulation system design, vibrations and thermal expansion of rotor bars, temperature rise, as well as output characteristics.