Comparative Study of Soft-Switched Isolated DC-DC Converters for Auxiliary Railway Supply |
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Abstract: | In modern railways coaches, the electrical separation between the high voltage side and the auxiliary equipments on the consumer side is realized by means of heavy and bulky 50-Hz transformers. In order to reduce the weight and size of the devices, today new power supply systems are proposed that consist in soft-switched isolated dc-dc converters with a lightweight medium frequency transformer and diverse output modules supplied by a common 600-V dc intermediate circuit. This paper aims to investigate in detail two such solutions of isolated dc-dc converters for auxiliary railway supply where zero-current transitions are achieved for the primary inverter switches. A comparison based on several criteria (overall power rating, losses in power semiconductor devices, operation in the whole range of load, etc.) is presented. |
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