Abstract:
A power conversion apparatus includes a filter capacitor, a contactor to electrically connect the filter capacitor to a power source or electrically disconnect the filter capacitor from the power source, and a failure determiner to determine whether a failure occurs in the contactor. When the contactor is kept closed during a determination period since closing of the contactor and a reduction in the voltage in the filter capacitor during the determination period is greater than or equal to a reference value, the failure determiner determines occurrence of a failure in the contactor.
Abstract:
A power conditioner for a feeding system which stabilizes a load of active power is provided. A power conditioner for a feeding system comprises a first AC-DC and DC-AC converter for performing conversion between AC power and DC power; and a nickel-metal hydride battery disposed between and connected to a high-voltage cable at DC side of the first AC-DC and DC-AC converter and a low-voltage cable at the DC side of the first AC-DC and DC-AC converter.
Abstract:
A method of regulating the power demanded by a rail motor including a current collector system cooperating with a catenary supplied with direct current power by power supply substations distributed along the track includes the steps of: measuring the catenary voltage Vcat at the rail motor, measuring the catenary current Icat at the rail motor, evaluating the no-load voltage Vcat0 of the substation supplying power to the catenary to which the rail motor is connected, evaluating the maximum power available to the catenary from the equation: P max = ( Vcat 0 ) 2 4 * R where R is the resistance of the catenary, and limiting the power demanded by the rail motor to a power limit Plim less than or equal to the calculated maximum power Pmax.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an a.c. electric railway power distribution system comprising an a.c. busbar having at least first and second a.c. busbar sections electrically isolated by a non-energized busbar. Each of a.c. busbar sections is capable of having at least one electric train electrically connected thereto as the train moves along a railway track. A first single phase a.c. power supply is operably connected to the first a.c. busbar section and a second single phase a.c. power supply is operably connected to the second a.c. busbar section. An a.c. to d.c. electronic power converter is provided having an input operably connected to the first a.c. busbar section, and having an output operably connected to a d.c. busbar. A d.c. to a.c. electronic power converter is also provided having an input operably connected to the d.c. busbar and having an output operably connected to the second a.c. busbar section. A control unit controls the operation of the electronic power converters so as to either generate or absorb reactive power between the first a.c. busbar section and the a.c. to d.c. electronic power converter, and to either generate or absorb reactive power between the second a.c. busbar section and the d.c. to a.c. electronic power converter. In this way, voltage regulation is effectively facilitated along the a.c. busbar sections of the system.
Abstract:
A railroad system includes a first vehicle and a second vehicle. The first vehicle includes a drive-part, an inverter, an electric storage device, and a control part. The control part controls feasibility of charge or discharge of the electric storage device based on a detection value of any of a charge accumulation amount of the electric storage device, a distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle, or a voltage value of a power line. When it is assumed that the detection value when charge or discharge of the electric storage device is switched from an allowable state to a prohibited state is a first set value, and the detection value when charge or discharge of the electric storage device is switched from a prohibited state to an allowable state is a second set value, the first set value and the second set value are different from each other.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a method and a device for controlling the voltage of a catenary supplying electric power to rolling stocks. A first rolling stock: —detects a traction command or a regeneration command of a second rolling stock in the neighborhood of first rolling stock, —increases the electric power supplied by the first rolling stock to the motor drive of the first rolling stock when a regeneration command of the second rolling stock is detected, —decreases the electric power supplied by the first rolling stock to the motor drive of the first rolling stock when a traction command of the second rolling stock is detected.
Abstract:
An electric railcar power feeding system in an embodiment includes a power storage device, a rectifier, and an emergency power supply. The power storage device is connected to a feeder line for an electric railcar. The rectifier converts alternating-current power of a first power system to direct-current power and supply the direct-current power for the feeder line. The emergency power supply supplies power of a second power system different from the first power system for the feeder line.
Abstract:
A DC feeder voltage control apparatus includes a model-information storing unit storing train model information on each train running in a control section, substation model information on each substation, and feeding network model information in the control section, a fixed-voltage-value storing unit storing a fixed voltage value of a substation voltage set for each substation, a train-operation-state-information acquiring unit acquiring positions and operation state information on the trains running in the control section, a first-substation-voltage fixing unit outputting the fixed voltage value to two first substations located at both ends of the control section, and a second-substation-voltage calculating unit calculating a setting voltage value of the substation voltage in at least one second substation located between the two first substations based on the information, and substation voltages and substation currents of the first substations to output to the second substation.
Abstract:
For AC power supply to a device movable along a track, such as an electrically powered crane, the invention provides a compensated conductor system for each phase by placing, close to each contact rail, additional conductors of other phases are provided extending along the track in close but insulated relation to said contact and rail electrically connected to the remaining rails of said other phases at intervals along the track, whereby voltage drops are minimized and the power factor is improved. For each rail with adjacent conductors and appurtenant insulation, composite section units are provided.
Abstract:
This positioning configuration design device includes a positioning configuration setting unit that excludes facilities which are likely to be able to be excluded from facilities respectively positioned at a plurality of locations and sets a positioning configuration of the facilities; a feasibility confirmation unit that judges whether predetermined conditions are feasible or not in the set positioning configuration of the facilities; an exclusion candidate list updating unit that registers, in an exclusion candidate list, information of the facilities excluded in the positioning configuration in which the conditions are feasible, a non-excludable list updating unit that registers, in a non-excludable list, information of the facilities excluded in the positioning configuration in which the conditions are not feasible; and a control unit that repeatedly executes confirmation processing including setting of the positioning configuration and judgment of feasibility of the conditions while incrementing the number of facilities to be excluded one at a time until a positioning configuration in which the conditions are feasible and no further facilities are able to be excluded is able to be calculated.