Assessment of grounding schemes on rail potential and stray currents in a DC transit system

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1941-1947

  Lee, Chien Hsing ^a   Lu, Chien Jung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diode grounded; Direct grounded; Rail potential; Stray currents; Ungrounded

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RAILROADS; ELECTRIC TRACTION;

DIODE GROUNDED; DIRECT GROUNDED; RAIL POTENTIAL; STRAY CURRENTS;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING;

EID: 33750107084     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2006.874561     Document Type: Article

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