A multi-purpose balanced transformer for railway traction applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 711-718

  Zhang, Zhiwen ^a   Wu, Bin ^b   Kang, Jinsong ^c   Luo, Longfu ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Balanced transformers; Harmonic filters; Railway substations; Reactive power compensation; Traction drives

Indexed keywords

BALANCED TRANSFORMERS; HARMONIC FILTERS; RAILWAY SUBSTATIONS; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; TRACTION DRIVES;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC RAILROADS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTIVES; POWER TRANSFORMERS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROADS; REACTIVE POWER; TRACTION (FRICTION);

ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS;

EID: 67349108306     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2008.2008491     Document Type: Article

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