A new family of modular IGBT converters for traction applications

Author

Eckel, H.-G. ; Bakran, M.M. ; Krafft, E.U. ; Nagel, A.

Author_Institution

A&D LD T, Siemens AG, Nurnberg

fYear

2005

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2005

Abstract

Electrical locomotives and trains are nowadays driven by asynchronous motors, which are fed by voltage source inverters. The IGBT two level inverter allows a standardization of the topology and the control strategy over the whole power and voltage range. However, different application conditions (cooling, dc-link voltage, power range) lead to different converters. To allow a flexible converter design with proven components, a family of power electronic building blocks was developed, which uses 3.3 kV and 6.5 kV IGBT and achieves an output power of up to 3 MW

Keywords

design engineering; electric locomotives; induction motors; insulated gate bipolar transistors; invertors; railways; traction; 3.3 kV; 6.5 kV; asynchronous motors; electrical locomotives; flexible converter; modular IGBT converters; power electronic building blocks; traction applications; trains; voltage source inverters; Choppers; Circuits; HTML; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Thyristors; Topology; Traction motors; Uniform resource locators; Voltage control; Converter Circuit; IGBT; Locomotive; Rail vehicle; Traction application; Voltage Source Inverters (VSI);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Dresden

Print_ISBN

90-75815-09-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2005.219248

Filename

1665438