Power Quality Phenomena in Electric Railway Power Supply Systems: An Exhaustive Framework and Classification

Hamed Jafari Kaleybar, Morris Brenna, Federica Foiadelli, Seyed Saeed Fazel and Dario Zaninelli
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Hamed Jafari Kaleybar: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy
Morris Brenna: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy
Federica Foiadelli: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy
Seyed Saeed Fazel: School of Railway Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16844, Iran
Dario Zaninelli: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-35

Abstract: Electric railway power systems (ERPS) as one of the most critical and high-power end-user loads of utility grids are characterized by outlandish power quality (PQ) problems all over the world. The extension and evolution of different supply topologies for these systems has resulted in significant and various forms of distortions in network voltage and current in all ERPS, the connected power system, and adjacent consumers. During the last years, numerous studies have been offered to investigate various aspects of PQs in a specific supplying topology. Variation in the supply structure of the ERPS and different types of locomotives has propelled the observation of different PQ phenomena. This versatility and development have led to confront considerable types of two-way interactive interfaces as well as reliability and PQ problems in ERPS. In addition, the lack of standards explicitly dedicated to ERPS has added to the ambiguity and complexity of this issue. In this paper, an extensive review of PQ distortions and phenomena in different configurations of ERPS is proposed and a systematic classification is presented. More than 140 scientific papers and publications are studied and categorized which can provide a fast review and a perfect perspective on the status of PQ indexes for researchers and experts.

Keywords: power quality; electric railway system; harmonics; unbalance; resonance; voltage distortions; reactive power; EMI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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