RXPE solution
In order to solve the above-mentioned power quality problems on site, RXPE provided five sets of 27.5kV cascade SVGs for the Russian Federation railway company in September 2017, with equipment capacity of 10MVar. The equipment is installed at the midpoint of the traction network line to provide fundamental voltage support for the line and compensate the harmonic voltage.
Schematic diagram of SVG installation position
SVG device photos
Key technology
1. It does not need to sample the power grid or load current directly, we can sample access point voltage only, which solves the problem of grid harmonic voltage distortion caused by load harmonics;
2. The short-wave communication mode is adopted by the on-site railway locomotive. After operation starts, the du/dt generated by IGBT device switch will interfere with the existing communication system, so it is necessary to install a passive filter to eliminate the interference;
SVG control block diagram
Operation effect
After SVG starts operation, the grid voltage is stable, the minimum value of 27.5kV busbar voltage is increased from 0.85pu to 0.94pu, the train operation efficiency is increased by 10%, and the grid voltage THD is less than 4%.
Grid voltage and SVG current curve (before SVG operation)
Waveform of grid voltage / SVG current after compensation
Qingdao Sifang Bombardier Railway Transportation Equipment Co., Ltd. (BST) was established in 1998. It is a Sino-foreign joint venture funded by China Sifang locomotive and Bombardier company. Its main products are high-speed railway and EMUs. (1) The parameters of test power supply in the plant area of Qingdao Sifang Bombardier railway transportation equipment Co., Ltd. are as follows: rated voltage: 27.5kV, rated capacity: 10MW (2) problem description: when eight CRHiEMUs were tested with pantograph rising at the same time, serious subsynchronous oscillation began to appear in the 27.5kV power grid, which led to the blocked pulse of all trains and could not operate normally. The figure below shows the voltage and current waveforms at 27.5kV side of eight test locomotives, and the voltage and current have serious subsynchronous oscillation problem. We know from the data after current FFT analyzing , the main harmonic components are 45 Hz and 55 Hz.
Railway locomotive is a single-phase load, which is usually connected to the three-phase power grid by VV transformer. When the locomotive is running, it will produce a lot of negative sequence current inputing into the power grid, and the locomotive traction converter adopts phase controlled rectifier technology, which will produce serious odd harmonics.