The Application of Active Filters Supported by Pulse Width Modulated Inverters in the Harmonic Simulation of the High Power Electric Traction

Abstract The paper shows the present results of a long term research work. The authors are working on the modelling of active filtering of harmonics caused by the railways. To simulate the harmonic penetration and filtering effects of the power electric traction the combination of frequency and time dependent model should be used. This novel method, called double domain simulation is improving the accuracy of the frequency domain simulation. To calculate the sophisticated model of the electric locomotive and active harmonic filter as a non-linear load a time dependent model must be used. The traction supply system together with the equivalent supply network impedance could be calculated in frequency domain. An iteration algorithm is developed converting the variables in every iteration step between the time and frequency domain