Development of AC/DC Hybrid Simulation for Operator Training Simulator in Railway System

Abstract

-Operator training simulator, within a training environment designed to understand the principles and behavior of the railway system with respect to operator's entries and predefined scenario, can provide a very strong benefit in facilitating operators' handling undesired operations. This simulator consists of computer system and applications, and the purpose of applications is to generate the power and voltage and analyze the AC substation and DC railway, respectively. This paper describes a novel approach to the new techniques for AC/DC hybrid simulation for the operator training simulator in the railway system. We first propose the structure the database of railway system. Then, topology processing and power flow using a linked-list method based on the proposed database, full or decoupled newton-rapshon methods are presented. Finally, the interface between the analysis for AC substation using a newton-rapshon method and the analysis for DC railway system using a time-interval power flow method is described. We have verified and tested the developed algorithm through the extensive testing for the proposed test system. To demonstrate the validity of the developed algorithm, comparative simulations between the proposed algorithm and PSS/E for the test system were conducted.

Development of a Novel Methodology for DC Railway Power Network Analysis Based on Participation Factor

“…For the vehicle that is operating in Zone i, the substation current ratio can be calculated using Eq. (12).…”

“…AC-DC hybrid analysis methodology was suggested considering the time interval in order to analyze railway networks with distribution networks [12].…”