Power Quality Issues in Railway Electrification: A Comprehensive Perspective

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3081-3090

  Mousavi Gazafrudi, Sayed Mohammad ^a   Tabakhpour Langerudy, Adel ^a   Fuchs, Ewald F ^b   Al Haddad, Kamal ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co phase system; harmonic and imbalance compensation; power electronic converters; power quality; railway electrification

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER QUALITY; RAILROADS; TRANSPORTATION;

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; CO PHASE; COMPENSATION STRATEGY; IMBALANCE COMPENSATION; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATIONS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS;

ELECTRIC RAILROADS;

EID: 84927658251     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2386794     Document Type: Article

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