Analysis of rail potential and stray currents in a direct-current transit system

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1516-1525

  Tzeng, Yii Shen ^a   Lee, Chien Hsing ^b  

^a ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DC electrified railways; diode grounded; direct grounded; rail potential; stray currents; ungrounded

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT MODELS; CORROSION DAMAGE; CURRENT COLLECTION; CURRENT COLLECTOR; DC ELECTRIFIED RAILWAYS; DIRECT-CURRENT; FIELD TEST; GREEN LINE; HIGH POTENTIAL; METALLIC OBJECTS; POTENTIAL RISE; RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEMS; RETURN CURRENT; SIMULATION RESULT; STRAY CURRENT; TEST RESULTS; TIE LINE; TRACTION SUBSTATION; TRANSIT SYSTEMS; TWO LAYERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES; ELECTRIC RAILROADS; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; MASS TRANSPORTATION;

RAPID TRANSIT;

EID: 77954003797     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2010.2040631     Document Type: Article

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