Abstract
Rail transport has always been one of the greatest economic boosters of several world nations, allowing the freight and passenger transport. In addition, it is the most secure and economic land transportation mode. From the energetic perspective, the electric locomotives emerge as one of the most efficient land transportation mode, as well as allow a more sustainable development. However, when an electric locomotive is connected to the three-phase power grid, power quality (PQ) deterioration arise, leading to the distortion and unbalance of the three-phase power grid currents and voltages which imply higher operational costs, raising economic and functional issues. In order to overcome the PQ deterioration phenomena, several solutions based power electronics technology have been studied and developed. These solutions vary in terms of control, functionality, implementation costs and complexity. One of the existing solutions is a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), which compensates the three-phase currents imbalance and harmonics.
In this paper, a comprehensive review of the electrified railway systems is carried out, identifying the electric PQ phenomena which may appear due to the non-linear dynamic traction loads. Following this topic, a computational simulation of the STATCOM is presented, making analysis of its behavior regarding the PQ improvement in electrified railway systems. Two case studies are presented: (i) a traction power system fed with V/V power transformer; (ii) a traction power system fed with Scott power transformer.
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Abbreviations
- iComp_A, iComp_B, iComp_C:
-
Instantaneous current compensation value synthesized by STATCOM in phase A, phase B and phase C, respectively
- iComp_A*, iComp_B*, iComp_C*:
-
Instantaneous reference value for phase compensation current A, current B and current C, respectively
- iRail_A, iRail_B, iRail_C:
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Instantaneous Phase A, Phase B and Phase C current of the power transformer primary windings (Scott or V/V)
- iS_A, iS_B, iS_C:
-
Three-phase power grid instantaneous current value of phase A, phase B and phase C
- ix, iy:
-
Instantaneous current value of catenary x and catenary y
- vS_A, vS_B, vS_C:
-
Instantaneous voltage value of the phase A, phase B and phase C of the power grid
- vx, vy:
-
Instantaneous voltage value of catenary x and catenary y, at the secondary windings of the power transformer (Scott or V/V)
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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia with-in the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2019. This work has been supported by the FCT Project QUALITY4POWER PTDC/EEI-EEE/28813/2017, and by the FCT Project DAIPESEV PTDC/EEI-EEE/30382/2017. Mr. Luis A. M. Barros is supported by the doctoral scholarship PD/BD/143006/2018 granted by the Portuguese FCT foundation. Mr. Mohamed Tanta was supported by FCT PhD grant with a reference PD/BD/127815/2016.
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Barros, L.A.M., Tanta, M., Martins, A.P., Afonso, J.L., Pinto, J.G. (2020). STATCOM Evaluation in Electrified Railway Using V/V and Scott Power Transformers. In: Afonso, J., Monteiro, V., Pinto, J. (eds) Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities. SESC 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45694-8_2
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