Abstract
The design of rolling stock plays a key role in the attractiveness of the rail transport. Train design must strictly meet the requirements of rail operators to ensure high quality and cost-effective services. Semiconductor power devices made from silicon carbide (SiC) have reached a level of technology enabling their widespread use in traction power converters. SiC transistors offering energy savings, quieter operation, improved reliability and reduced maintenance costs have become the choice for the next-generation railway power converters and are quickly replacing the IGBT technology which has been used for decades. The paper describes the design and development of a novel SiC-based DC power electronic traction transformer (PETT) intended for electric multiple units (EMUs) operated in 3 kV DC rail traction. The details related to the 0.5 MVA peak power medium voltage prototype, including the electrical design of the main building blocks are presented in the first part of the paper. The second part deals with the implementation of the developed SiC-based DC PETT into a regional train operating on a 3 kV DC traction system. The experimental results obtained during the testing are presented to demonstrate the performance of the developed 3 kV DC PETT prototype.
Highlights
Rail is among the most efficient and lowest emission modes of transport
As the heat generation is concentrated around the medium frequency transformers (MFT) and silicon carbide (SiC) power modules, a distributed air power electronic traction transformer (PETT) more competitive in price than two-level traction inverters using HV SiC MOSFETS due to very cooling system (6), when uses pulse width modulated (PWM) controlled fans and eighteen cooling ducts is provided in order high costs of high voltage semiconductor power devices, high voltage capacitors and other high to deal with the heat
The developed DC PETT has been implemented into the PESA 308 EN81 series electric passenger railcar that operates in Polish regional passenger
Summary
Rail is among the most efficient and lowest emission modes of transport. It is under constant pressure to increase the accessibility of connections and quality of passenger services to enhance their competitiveness with other transport modes. The most common R&D works carried out by the manufacturers of traction drives are focused on improving efficiency and reducing the size of the on-board propulsion and power systems [3,4,5,6] Another important topic is the reduction of noise emission [3]. EMUs powered by 3 kV DC voltage are equipped with two-level VSIs constructed of six 6.5 kV insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) generating pulse width modulated (PWM). EMUs powered by 3 kV DC voltage are equipped with two-level VSIs constructed of six 6.5 kV insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) generating pulse width modulated (PWM) voltage for supplying medium voltage asynchronous traction motors
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