Optimal impedance termination of 25-kV electrified railway systems for improved power quality

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 20, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages 1703-1710

  Tan, Pee Chin ^a   Loh, Poh Chiang ^b   Holmes, Donald Grahame ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Active power filters; Harmonics; Power quality; Traction systems

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC RAILROADS; ELECTRIC TRACTION; HARMONIC DISTORTION; OPTIMIZATION; THYRISTORS;

ACTIVE POWER FILTER; OPTIMAL IMPEDANCE TERMINATION; POWER QUALITY; TRACTION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 17744380239     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2004.834308     Document Type: Article

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