Study on a Novel Three-Phase Two-Leg Active Inverter for Electrified Railway

Abstract

A novel topology circuit of active compensation was discussed to be used to manage negative sequence caused by locomotive load in electrified railway. The main circuit used a three-phase two-leg compensator as active elements of shunt hybrid active compensator topology. The number of switch device in this topology was reduced by comparing with three-phase full-bridge active inverter and the cost was lower. The simulation model was developed with SIMULINK. The simulating results indicates that the shunt hybrid active compensator can restrain the problem of negative sequence which generated by locomotive load, and reduces the effect of reactive power, negative sequence, improves electric energy quality and verifies the correctness of the proposed structure and control method.