Availability and Reliability Performance Analysis of Traction Frequency Converters - A Case StudyShow others and affiliations
2013 (English)In: International Review of Electrical Engineering, ISSN 1827-6660, E-ISSN 2533-2244, Vol. 8, no 4, p. 1231-1242Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The frequency converter is one of the main parts of the traction power supply system (TPSS) and converts adequate traction power from the power company to the electric vehicle. In the Swedish railway network, this system comprises around 133 frequency converters with a total capacity reach of 1,295 MVA and covers around 9,543 km of electrified railway. The aim of this article is to evaluate and compare the reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) performances of the ten models of converters used in the Swedish railway system. The key performance indicators introduced by the IEEE Std 762 methodology have been used to measure and compare the RAM performance of the converters. Moreover, the mean cumulative function (MCF) has also been used for the monitoring and comparison of the field reliability of converters versus the operating time, capacity factor and converted power. The study shows that, in general, both the static and the rotary types have a high level of availability ranging from 97%-99%. The results also show that the TGTO model (a static type) has the lowest RAM performance among all the models. In addition, it has been found that using IEEE Std 762 or the MCF alone does not always provide a complete answer. Therefore, the study suggests using both the IEEE Std 762 and the MCF methodology to arrive at a more realistic result. The study has shown that the MCF based on the capacity factor gives a good result compared with the results obtained using the MCF based on the operating time and on the converted power as a measure of the usage intensity.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013. Vol. 8, no 4, p. 1231-1242
Keywords [en]
Availability, Frequency Converter, Traction Power Supply System, Mean Cumulative Function, Recurrence Event Data, IEEE Std 762, RAM Analysis, Railway Systems
National Category
Other Civil Engineering
Research subject
Operation and Maintenance Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-9738Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84885234165Local ID: 8675f72d-3ccd-46c5-886a-ccfd81e4d3adOAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-9738DiVA, id: diva2:982676
Note
Godkänd; 2013; 20130722 (yasahm)
2016-09-292016-09-292023-11-03Bibliographically approved