Power Quality Solutions for Light Rail Public Transportation Systems Fed by Medium-Voltage Underground Cables

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2012-05-01

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Terciyanli, Alper
Acik, Adnan
Cetin, Alper
Ermiş, Muammer
ÇADIRCI, IŞIK
Ermis, Cezmi
Demirci, Turan
Bilgin, Hazim Faruk

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In this paper, the combination of a thyristor-switched shunt reactor and a current source converter-based active power filter has been proposed for mitigation of power quality (PQ) problems of Light Rail public Transportation Systems (LRTSs) fed by long medium-voltage underground cables. A case study has been carried out on a typical LRTS to assess the performance of the proposed solution for both capacitive reactive power compensation of underground cables and harmonic filtering of 12-pulse catenary rectifiers. It has been shown by extensive field tests carried out that this solution meets the requirements satisfactorily, thus constituting a complete solution to the PQ problems of LRTS. Conventional PQ solutions have been also assessed, and the corresponding theoretical results are given in comparison with the proposed system.

Subject Keywords

Power quality (PQ), Harmonics, Harmonic distortion, Current source converter (CSC), Active filters

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30682

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2012.2190569

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Article

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A. Terciyanli et al., “Power Quality Solutions for Light Rail Public Transportation Systems Fed by Medium-Voltage Underground Cables,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, pp. 1017–1029, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30682.