Optimizing the Train-Catenary Electrical Interface Through Control Reconfiguration

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2019-11

Authors

António Martins (Author) FEUP; V. Morais (Author) FEUP; Carlos Ramos (Author) FEUP; Adriano Carvalho (Author) FEUP; João L. Afonso (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Pages: 24-39

5th EAI International Conference on Green Energy and Networking, GreeNets 2018

21 November 2018 through 23 November 2018

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Authenticus ID: P-00Q-E1M

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12950-7_3

Abstract (EN): Electric railway vehicles are supplied by substations and catenaries at increasingly high power levels being the interface between the traction motors and the overhead contact line based on power electronics converters. A large part of these are AC-DC four quadrant converters operating in parallel at relatively small switching frequencies but using the interleaving principle to reach a low harmonic distortion of the catenary current and imposing specific harmonic ranges in this current. However, the current is not a pure sinusoidal wave and its harmonics can excite unwanted resonances due to the combined effect of the catenary distributed parameters, the substation equivalent impedance and the current spectrum that can vary according to normal and abnormal operating conditions. This paper analyses this phenomenon and proposes a control strategy capable of minimizing the resonance effects. © 2019, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16