An experimental programme to determine the feasibility of using a reverberation chamber to measure the total power radiated by an arcing pantograph

Author

Lan Ma ; Marvin, Andy ; Karadimou, Eva ; Armstrong, Rob ; Yinghong Wen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

269

Lastpage

273

Abstract

Pantograph arcing is the main EMC interference source in a high speed train. This paper describes a laboratory replica of pantograph arcing which can be operated in a reverberation chamber. The set-up has been verified by numerical modeling to show it is suitable to replace the real pantograph for investigating the radiation properties of pantograph arcing. Some initial measurements have been taken in the chamber. The results show that the reverberation chamber is working well to measure the power radiated from the arc generated by the set-up.

Keywords

pantographs; railways; reverberation chambers; EMC interference source; experimental programme; high speed train; laboratory replica; numerical modeling; pantograph arcing; reverberation chamber; Laboratories; Numerical models; Power measurement; Reverberation chambers; Wheels; Wires; laboratory set-up; numerical model; pantograph arcing; radiated power; reverberation chamber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Europe), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMCEurope.2014.6930915

Filename

6930915