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Analysis of DC Link Operation Voltage of A Hybrid Railway Power Quality Conditioner and Its PQ Compensation Capability in High Speed Co-Phase Traction Power Supply

This document discusses a proposed hybrid railway power quality conditioner (HPQC) system for high-speed electric railways. The existing traction power supply suffers from power quality issues and requires neutral sections. The proposed HPQC uses a back-to-back converter with a common DC link, connected to the railway phases through inductive and capacitive coupling. This allows the DC link voltage to be lowered while still providing reactive power compensation. The HPQC would improve power quality for electric railways and reduce the need for neutral sections without isolated phases.

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Analysis of DC Link Operation Voltage of A Hybrid Railway Power Quality Conditioner and Its PQ Compensation Capability in High Speed Co-Phase Traction Power Supply

This document discusses a proposed hybrid railway power quality conditioner (HPQC) system for high-speed electric railways. The existing traction power supply suffers from power quality issues and requires neutral sections. The proposed HPQC uses a back-to-back converter with a common DC link, connected to the railway phases through inductive and capacitive coupling. This allows the DC link voltage to be lowered while still providing reactive power compensation. The HPQC would improve power quality for electric railways and reduce the need for neutral sections without isolated phases.

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Analysis of DC Link Operation Voltage of a

Hybrid Railway Power Quality Conditioner


and its PQ Compensation Capability in High
Speed Co-phase Traction Power Supply

Abstract
Introduction:
With rapid country and city development around the world,
electric railway transportation has played an essential role in
economics and daily lives. This causes high and increasing
transportation demand. It is therefore important that traction
power supply is stable and can provide power with high power
quality to locomotives. However, traction power supply usually
suffers from various power quality problems such as reactive
power, system unbalance and harmonics, etc. Various power
quality compensation techniques, which are discussed in later
sections, are therefore proposed.
Existing system:
In traditional AC traction power supply, the power in three
phase grid is transformed into two single phase outputs through
substation and supply power to locomotives. Since the two
single phase power is of different phase, neutral sections
(without power supply) are required to avoid risk of phase
mixing. As locomotives run through neutral sections, they lose
power and velocity. Traditional AC power structure is therefore
not suitable for high-speed railway. It is basically composed of a
back to back converter with a common DC link. One converter,
or instance, the Vac phase converter is connected to the
locomotive phase through inductive coupled impedance; and
another phase, Vbc phase converter, is connected to the
unloaded phase through inductive coupled impedance. In order
to control the power flow so as to achieve power quality
compensation, the energy of the DC link must be higher than the
point of common coupling (PCC) point. In other words, the DC
link voltage must be higher than the peak of Vac voltage.

Proposed system:
In co-phase traction power locomotive loadings are
connected across one single phase output of substation
transformer only, leaving another phase unloaded. This proposed
structure is beneficial for effective reduction of neutral sections
and higher transformer utilization ratio. The co-phase structure
is thus more suitable for application in high-speed railway.
Hybrid railway power quality conditioner (HPQC) is thus
proposed and developed. Different from traditional RPC, the
Vac phase converter in HPQC is connected to the PCC through
capacitive coupled impedance.
Advantages:
The capacitive coupled capacitance can help to provide
support voltage during reactive power compensation so that
the DC link voltage can be decreased.
The device rating and cost of HPQC can thus be reduced.
Applications:
Electric railway transportation.
Block diagram:

INDUCT
IVE

FILTER FILTER

CONVERT ENERGY CONVERT


ER 2 STORAGE ER 1

12V DRIVER
DC CIRUIT

5V PIC CONTROLLER
DC WITH BUFFER
Tools and software used:
MPLAB microcontroller programming.
ORCAD circuit layout.
MATLAB/Simulink Simulation.

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