Development of a 413 MW railway power supply converter

Author

Wrede, -Ing Holger ; Umbricht, Niklaus

Author_Institution

E. ON Eng. GmbH, Gelsenkichen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

3587

Lastpage

3592

Abstract

In Datteln, West Germany, at the site of a new 1100 MW hard coal fired power plant world´s largest railway power supply converter station will be built and will convert after completition and commissioning in 2011 up to 413 MW 50 Hz three-phase power into 16.7 Hz two-phase power for Germany´s 110 kV traction power system. The converter station exists of four converter blocks, which ensure n-1 redundancy due to their overload capability to absorb a failure of one converter block and provide maintenance under full load conditions. The power electronics design of the converter is based on reliable IGCT technology and offers an innovative mulit-level voltage sourced converter design to achieve grid code requirements without any line filters.

Keywords

power convertors; railway electrification; steam power stations; traction; Datteln; Germany; coal fired power plant; frequency 16.7 Hz; mulitlevel voltage sourced converter design; power 1100 MW; power 413 MW; power converter; power electronics design; railway power supply; three-phase power; traction power system; two-phase power; voltage 110 kV; Maintenance; Power generation; Power generation economics; Power supplies; Power system reliability; Rail transportation; Stators; Switchgear; Switching converters; Traction power supplies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2009. IECON '09. 35th Annual Conference of IEEE

Conference_Location

Porto

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4648-3

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2009.5415153

Filename

5415153