Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding Machines

Light railways are a low carbon emission form of transport, but it is often difficult to electrify tracks in central urban areas. This limitation can be avoided by integrating an on-board battery storage connected to the dc bus of the traction inverter with a boost dc/dc converter. Howeve...

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Main Authors: Davide De Simone, Maria Stefania Carmeli, Salvatore D'Arco, Luigi Piegari, Pietro Tricoli
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Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
Series:IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10530114/
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Maria Stefania Carmeli
Salvatore D'Arco
Luigi Piegari
Pietro Tricoli
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description Light railways are a low carbon emission form of transport, but it is often difficult to electrify tracks in central urban areas. This limitation can be avoided by integrating an on-board battery storage connected to the dc bus of the traction inverter with a boost dc/dc converter. However, the boost converter requires a bulky inductor and introduces additional power losses that are undesirable. This paper proposes to replace the standard induction motor with an open ended winding induction motor connected at one end to the overhead line with the traction inverter and to the other end to a battery with a second inverter in order to reduce the power losses of the traction drive. The paper addresses design and control aspects for light rail vehicles with open ended winding induction machines when the power supply is partly from the overhead line and partly from the on board battery. Moreover, the paper studies in detail the hybrid operations of the traction system i.e., when the overhead line charges the battery during coasting or at the stops. Finally, numerical simulations for a real use case are presented to quantify the reduction of power losses in comparison to the standard solution.
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spelling doaj-art-d14ed1d949804b9ea1e17191b15897b32025-01-30T00:04:30ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology2644-13302024-01-01569570310.1109/OJVT.2024.340060710530114Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding MachinesDavide De Simone0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9851-7347Maria Stefania Carmeli1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6540-256XSalvatore D'Arco2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-8230Luigi Piegari3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3776-7486Pietro Tricoli4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8929-4460Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyDepartment of Energy Systems, SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim, NorwayDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyDepartment of Electronic, Electrical, and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.Light railways are a low carbon emission form of transport, but it is often difficult to electrify tracks in central urban areas. This limitation can be avoided by integrating an on-board battery storage connected to the dc bus of the traction inverter with a boost dc/dc converter. However, the boost converter requires a bulky inductor and introduces additional power losses that are undesirable. This paper proposes to replace the standard induction motor with an open ended winding induction motor connected at one end to the overhead line with the traction inverter and to the other end to a battery with a second inverter in order to reduce the power losses of the traction drive. The paper addresses design and control aspects for light rail vehicles with open ended winding induction machines when the power supply is partly from the overhead line and partly from the on board battery. Moreover, the paper studies in detail the hybrid operations of the traction system i.e., when the overhead line charges the battery during coasting or at the stops. Finally, numerical simulations for a real use case are presented to quantify the reduction of power losses in comparison to the standard solution.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10530114/Open ended winding machineslight rail vehicleshybrid electric LRVzero emission transport
spellingShingle Davide De Simone
Maria Stefania Carmeli
Salvatore D'Arco
Luigi Piegari
Pietro Tricoli
Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding Machines
IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
Open ended winding machines
light rail vehicles
hybrid electric LRV
zero emission transport
title Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding Machines
title_full Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding Machines
title_fullStr Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding Machines
title_full_unstemmed Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding Machines
title_short Design and Control of Hybrid Electric Light Rail Vehicles With Open Ended Winding Machines
title_sort design and control of hybrid electric light rail vehicles with open ended winding machines
topic Open ended winding machines
light rail vehicles
hybrid electric LRV
zero emission transport
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10530114/
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