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A novel active power quality compensator topology with DC voltage balancer for electrified railways
Author(s) -
Soe Win Tint,
Hiraki Eiji,
Tanaka Toshihiko
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ieej transactions on electrical and electronic engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1931-4981
pISSN - 1931-4973
DOI - 10.1002/tee.21907
Subject(s) - capacitor , traction substation , voltage , transformer , ac power , topology (electrical circuits) , traction (geology) , electrical engineering , harmonic , engineering , power quality , h bridge , computer science , electronic engineering , control theory (sociology) , pulse width modulation , control (management) , physics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
This paper proposes a novel active power quality compensator (APQC) topology with a DC voltage balancer for electrified railways. The APQC is composed of a three‐leg structure with two common DC capacitors. Two legs perform as two half‐bridge inverters, which compensate the unbalanced active, reactive, and harmonic currents on the source side in the traction substation. The third leg controls two common DC capacitor voltages with a small amount of the output currents. Therefore, the current rating of the third leg can be reduced as compared to that of the already proposed three‐leg structured APQC. In the control algorithm of the two half‐bridge inverters, a strategy based on constant DC capacitor voltage control is used, which does not need any calculation blocks of the unbalanced active, reactive, and harmonic components of the load current to perform the APQC operation. Thus we offer the simplest algorithm for the proposed APQC. The basic principle of the proposed APQC topology with the DC voltage balancer is discussed in detail, and then confirmed by digital computer simulation using the PSIM software. A prototype experimental model is constructed and tested. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed APQC can achieve balanced and sinusoidal source currents on the primary side of the Scott transformer in traction substations for electrified railways. © 2013 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.