• DocumentCode
    270820
  • Title

    Remote earth in the electrified railway traction

  • Author

    Ivanek, Lubomir ; Phan Thi Thanh Thao ; Wežranowski, Lukaš

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., VSB TUO, Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12-14 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    619
  • Lastpage
    623
  • Abstract
    This paper describes principles and methods for determining the remote earth (remote ground) of traction systems used in electrified railway traction. Remote earth is determined for the purposes of measuring transition resistance between the rails and remote earth. Transition resistance is needed to calculate the distribution of the current between the rail and the ground. There are presented results of modeling voltage drop at various ratios of conductivity of rail top and soil.
  • Keywords
    current distribution; electrical conductivity; rails; railway electrification; traction; current distribution; electrified railway traction; rail top conductivity; remote earth; soil conductivity; transition resistance measuring; Current measurement; Earth; Electric potential; Electrical resistance measurement; Electrodes; Rails; Resistance; electrified railway traction; remote earth; traction system;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electric Power Engineering (EPE), Proccedings of the 2014 15th International Scientific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brno
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EPE.2014.6839466
  • Filename
    6839466