Abstract
With the increasing requirements of the railway sector for electrified railways and the development of society, the traction power supply system needs to become more flexible, economic and reliable. The traditional traction power supply system has many problems due to its own topology, such as negative sequence current, load fluctuation, low utilization rate of regenerative braking energy, and inability to use the distributed generation along the railway. In order to solve these problems and make the traction power supply system (TPSS) more flexible, efficient and reliable, a novel TPSS called flexible smart traction power supply system (FSTPSS) is proposed. This traction power supply system consists of AC-DC-AC traction substation and the microgrid along the railway. It can effectively mitigate the problems of negative sequence current, improve regenerative braking energy utilization and distributed generation utilization. A hierarchical energy management strategy is also proposed here, which can effectively improve the operating economy of FSTPSS and reduce the load fluctuation of FSTPSS. And based on the actual load measurement power of a traction substation of China’s Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, the proposed energy management strategy has been verified for the economic improvement and load fluctuation reduction of TPSS.
Highlights
Traditional traction power supply system (TPSS) has typical problems of asymmetrical power supply and passing the neutral section due to its own structure
This paper proposes a flexible smart traction power supply system (FSTPSS) which is shown in Fig. 1 and its hierarchical energy management strategy
Many problems of traditional traction power supply systems are due to their inability to optimally control the flow of power
Summary
Traditional traction power supply system (TPSS) has typical problems of asymmetrical power supply and passing the neutral section due to its own structure. In [2], a traction substation with AC-DC-AC topology based on multi-converter has been proposed, and the operation results show that the AC-DC-AC traction substation can well improve the power quality of TPSS. He et al [3] has proposed a novel co-phase TPSS, and in the proposed system, a DC power transmission system is designed to provide access for distributed generation. The contributions and technical novelty of this paper are as follows: 1) A novel topology of traction power supply system is proposed, which is the first time to combine co-phase power supply system and the wayside microgrid which consider the 10kV distribution network load.
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