Application of power electronic devices in rail transportation traction system

Author

Jiaxi Hu ; Wenye Liu ; Jinfeng Yang

Author_Institution

CSR Res. of Electr. Technol. & Mater. Eng., CSR Zhuzhou Inst. Co., Ltd., Zhuzhou, China

fYear

2015

fDate

10-14 May 2015

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Power electronic devices (PED) play an important role in developing rail transportation traction systems (RTTS), which has made enormous progress over the past decades. With the development of PED such as thyristor, GTO and IGBT, traditional DC drive systems are replaced by more efficient AC drive systems. Due to the advantages of AC drive system, such as high efficiency, energy saving, environmentally friendly etc, rail transportation has shown rapid development in recent years in China. This has strongly stimulated both power semiconductor industry´s demand and technological progress. Focusing on the application of PED, this paper mainly discusses the latest challenges, effective solutions, and development trends of PED for RTTS.

Keywords

power convertors; power semiconductor devices; railways; traction power supplies; AC drive system; RTTS; power electronic devices; power semiconductor industry; rail transportation traction system; traction converter; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Multichip modules; Rail transportation; Rails; Silicon carbide; Thyristors; IPM; drive control; power electronic devices; traction converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Semiconductor Devices & IC's (ISPSD), 2015 IEEE 27th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1943-653X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6259-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPSD.2015.7123376

Filename

7123376