Harmonic issues in Electric Traction system

Author

Vasanthi, V. ; Ashok, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol., Calicut, India

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Electric Traction is the most common public transport used for the long distance travel by common people in India. This paper investigate the harmonics of Electric Traction system in Indian railways by taking measurements at 110/25kV traction substations. This also calculates the total harmonic distortion of current and voltage harmonics in the feeder of the traction substation. This gives an idea about the issues due to the presence of harmonics in Traction systems to the public utility systems. A single tuned LC filter, tuned to filter out 3^rd harmonic is proposed at the end.

Keywords

electricity supply industry; power harmonic filters; power system harmonics; railway engineering; substations; traction; Indian railways; current harmonics; electric traction harmonics system; public transport; public utility system; single tuned LC filter; total harmonic distortion; traction substation; voltage 110 kV; voltage 25 kV; voltage harmonics; Current measurement; Harmonic analysis; Power harmonic filters; Rail transportation; Substations; Voltage measurement; Electric Traction; Electric locomotive; Harmonics; Traction substation (TSS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy, Automation, and Signal (ICEAS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0137-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAS.2011.6147203

Filename

6147203