A Power Factor-Oriented Railway Power Flow Controller for Power Quality Improvement in Electrical Railway Power System

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1167-1177

  Hu, Sijia ^a   Xie, Bin ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Gao, Xiang ^b   Zhang, Zhiwen ^a   Luo, Longfu ^a   Krause, Olav ^c   Cao, Yijia ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangdong Power Grid Company Ltd   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Converter; electrical railway power system (ERPS); negative sequence; power factor (PF); power flow controller; power quality (PQ)

Indexed keywords

AC-AC POWER CONVERTERS; CONTROLLERS; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ENGINES; FLOW CONTROL; POWER CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER QUALITY; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RECTIFIER SUBSTATIONS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; TRACTION CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

CONVERTER; ELECTRICAL RAILWAY POWER SYSTEM (ERPS); NEGATIVE SEQUENCE; POWER FACTORS; POWER FLOW CONTROLLERS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM CONTROL;

EID: 85026768927     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2615265     Document Type: Article

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