A Novel Control Scheme of the Statcom for Power Quality Improvement in Electrified Railways

Author

Hosseini, Seyed Hossein ; Sarhangzadeh, M. ; Shahnia, Farhad

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tabriz Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

DC electrified railways play an important role for metropolitan public transportation because of high efficiency, heavy ridership and fast transportation. However, the electrified railways cause great problems for the power quality issues of the power distribution system feeding the traction system such as injecting harmonics, reactive power compensation and low power factor issue. The problem can be solved by adding a Statcom to the traction substations. In this paper, a novel control system has been applied for the control of Statcom, comparing its efficiency and characteristics with the mostly used PQ method. The simulation is done with PSCAD/EMTDC proving the efficiency of the control system for reducing the current harmonics, voltage and current balancing, reactive power compensation and power factor improvement

Keywords

harmonics suppression; power supply quality; railway electrification; static VAr compensators; substations; traction power supplies; DC electrified railways; Statcom; current balancing; current harmonics reduction; metropolitan public transportation; power distribution system; power factor improvement; power quality improvement; reactive power compensation; traction substations; traction system; voltage balancing; Automatic voltage control; Control systems; PSCAD; Power distribution; Power quality; Power system harmonics; Rail transportation; Railway electrification; Reactive power; Substations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2006. PESC '06. 37th IEEE

Conference_Location

Jeju

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9716-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2006.1712110

Filename

1712110