Traction power systems for electrified railways:evolution,state of the art,and future trends

Traction power systems(TPSs)play a vital role in the operation of electrified railways.The transformation of conventional railway TPSs to novel structures is not only a trend to promote the development of electrified railways toward high-efficiency and resilience but also an inevitable requirement to achieve carbon neutrality target.On the basis of sorting out the power supply structures of conventional AC and DC modes,this paper first reviews the characteristics of the existing TPSs,such as weak power supply flexibility and low-energy efficiency.Furthermore,the power supply structures of various TPSs for future electrified railways are described in detail,which satisfy longer distance,low-carbon,high-efficiency,high-reliability and high-quality power supply requirements.Meanwhile,the application prospects of different traction modes are discussed from both technical and economic aspects.Eventually,this paper introduces the research progress of mixed-system electrified railways and traction power supply technologies without catenary system,speculates on the future development trends and challenges of TPSs and predicts that TPSs will be based on the continuous power supply mode,employing power electronic equipment and intelligent information technology to construct a railway comprehensive energy system with renewable energy.

Genetic architecture of maize yield traits dissected by QTL mapping and GWAS in maize

The study of yield traits can reveal the genetic architecture of grain yield for improving maize production.In this study, an association panel comprising 362 inbred lines and a recombinant inbred line population derived from X178 × 9782 were used to identify candidate genes for nine yield traits. High-priority overlap(HPO) genes, which are genes prioritized in a genome-wide association study(GWAS), were investigated using coexpression networks. The GWAS identified 51 environmentally stable SNPs in two environments and 36 pleiotropic SNPs, including three SNPs with both attributes. Seven hotspots containing 41 trait-associated SNPs were identified on six chromosomes by permutation. Pyramiding of superior alleles showed a highly positive effect on all traits, and the phenotypic values of ear diameter and ear weight consistently corresponded with the number of superior alleles in tropical and temperate germplasm. A total of 61 HPO genes were detected after trait-associated SNPs were combined with the coexpression networks. Linkage mapping identified 16 environmentally stable and 16 pleiotropic QTL.Seven SNPs that were located in QTL intervals were assigned as consensus SNPs for the yield traits.Among the candidate genes predicted by our study, some genes were confirmed to function in seed development. The gene Zm00001 d016656 encoding a serine/threonine protein kinase was associated with five different traits across multiple environments. Some genes were uniquely expressed in specific tissues and at certain stages of seed development. These findings will provide genetic information and resources for molecular breeding of maize grain yield.

Study on Electromagnetic Transient Condition of EMU Passing by Phase-separation with Electric Load in High-speed Railway

Aiming at the complex electromagnetic transient process of EMU passing by phase-separation with electric load in high-speed railway, mechanism of overvoltage caused by switching off, overvoltage caused by switching on and impact current is analyzed systematically in this article. π-type equivalent circuit of feeding section is put forward in the analysis of overvoltage mechanism. Overvoltage and overcurrent model of passing by phase-separation with electric load are also built. Correctness of mechanism was validated by simulation. In addition, the methods to solve the influence on substations, transformers and protection devices in this process are put forward, which provides a new idea on passing by phase-separation with electric load technology.

Research on the Power System Fault Classification Based on HHT and SVM Using Wide-area Information

A power system fault classification method based on the Hilbert-Huang transformation (HHT) and support vector machine (SVM) is proposed in this paper. According to different types of faults taking place in area and the outer area, this paper uses HHT to extract the instantaneous amplitude and Hilbert marginal spectrum of the current signal. Then a fault classifier consisting of a series of SVM classifiers that are optimized by using cross validation method is constructed. Finally, inputting the feature vector sets that are conversed by the HHT into the fault classifier, the fault type and locate the fault area will be distinguished. The simulation results show that this approach is very effective to classify the fault type especially when the sample is small.

A fault prediction method for catenary of high-speed rails based on meteorological conditions

Fault frequency of catenary is related to meteo-rological conditions. In this work, based on the historical data, catenary fault frequency and weather-related fault rate are introduced to analyse the correlation between catenary faults and meteorological conditions, and further the effect of meteorological conditions on catenary oper-ation. Moreover, machine learning is used for catenary fault prediction. As with the single decision tree, only a small number of training samples can be classified cor-rectly by each weak classifier, the AdaBoost algorithm is adopted to adjust the weights of misclassified samples and weak classifiers, and train multiple weak classifiers. Finally, the weak classifiers are combined to construct a strong classifier, with which the final prediction result is obtained. In order to validate the prediction method, an example is provided based on the historical data from a railway bureau of China. The result shows that the mapping relation between meteorological conditions and catenary faults can be established accurately by AdaBoost algorithm. The AdaBoost algorithm can accurately predict a catenary fault if the meteorological conditions are provided.

Analysis on the Effect of the Nonlinear Resistance on the Locomotive Operating Overvoltages

With the application of the articulated phase insulator, and the speed of electric locomotive rising, it is inevitable for the electric locomotive to adopt the technology automatic passing through the electric phase separation. However, when the locomotive passes the electric phase separation, a variety of overvoltages will be generated, such as the cut-off overvoltage and the closing overvoltage. In this paper, the causes of the two overvoltages above are analyzed theoretically and simulated in Simulink. Then this paper discusses the suppression effects on the cut-off overvoltage and the closing overvoltage by paralleling the nonlinear resistance and the main breaker, or parallelling the nonlinear resistance and the locomotive transformer. The simulation results show that parallelling the nonlinear resistance and the locomotive transformer has suppressive effects on the two overvoltages mentioned above.

The genetic variation of the backcross modified lines developed from the maize line 08-641 selected by different directions

In this study, two donaors CN962 and 8065 were used to improve the resistance to northern leaf blight of the recurrent parent inbred line 08-641 (R08). A total of 79 lines (BC2F4) were developed by a bidirectional selection based on the similarity and dissimilarity in the shape and color of seeds to R08.The genetic variation of these lines were analyzed by 44 pairs of SSR molecular markers, the result showed that a total of 272 alleles were detected in the improved lines and R08, 123 out of them were detected in the modified lines but discarded in R08. The modified line selected based on dissimialry in the shape and corlor of seeds to R08 have lower genetic similary between R08 than that between the lines selected based on similary in the shape and color of seeds and R08, and the genetic variation of these lines were wider. It concluded that when the backcross breeding were used to improve the maize inbred lines, multidirectional selection based on phenotypic value were contribute to create and keep genetic variation.

Dynamic Detection Method of Medium-Low Speed Maglev F-Track seams Based on Machine Vision

This paper presents a dynamic detection method of medium and low speed maglev F-track seam based on machine vision detection technology. A Kalman filter light bar center extraction algorithm based on ridge line prediction is proposed for the bar image of F-track seam detection. And a threshold segmentation feature point extraction method is proposed for the center of the light bar. The static and dynamic precision of detection system are verified by the stability test, static and dynamic precision test. The static detection accuracy of end of F-track seam is less than 0.5mm and dynamic detection accuracy is less than 0.8mm. Then the static precision is less than 0.2mm the dynamic accuracy is less than 0.5mm about the horizontal F-track seam. And the static precision is less than 0.2mm, and the dynamic accuracy is less than 0.5mm about the vertical F-track seam. The detection accuracy of the system meets the requirements of F-track seam precision.

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ELECTRIFIED transportation in automotive,railway,aviation and navigation has received more and more attention in recent years.Innovations in energy efficiency,speed and performance of all kinds of transportation vehicles are hot topics both in academia and industry.The corresponding researches relate to the design and control of electrical machines,power converters and energy storage systems.

紫色土线虫对长期不同施肥措施的响应

土壤线虫在农田生态系统中数量丰富且对土壤环境变化敏感,可用于评估不同田间管理条件下的土壤健康。本文探究了紫色土区长期不同施肥措施及土壤团聚体粒径对线虫群落的分布及其生态功能多样性的影响。试验设置了5个施肥处理:不施肥(对照,CK)、单施化肥(NPK)、生物炭+化肥(BCNPK)、商品猪粪+化肥(OMNPK)和秸秆+化肥(RSDNPK)。团聚体粒径分为:原状土(BS)、大团聚体(>2 mm;LA)和小团聚体(0.25–2 mm;SA)。结果表明,与对照相比,施肥可促进线虫数量增长,其中单施化肥处理下增幅最小(66%);有机物料与化肥配施对线虫数量的提升更为显著,秸秆+化肥处理下增幅达206%。不同施肥处理间线虫类群相对丰度差异显著,大小均表现为:食细菌线虫(BA)>杂食/捕食线虫(OP)>植食线虫(PP)>食真菌线虫(FU)。小团聚体较其他土壤团聚体的杂食/捕食线虫丰度更低,食细菌线虫丰度较高。秸秆与化肥配施处理下线虫群落结构指数和富集指数显著增加,且各施肥处理下线虫功能足迹呈现明显差异。有机肥与化肥配施(尤其是秸秆+化肥)可提高土壤养分供应且有利于形成稳定健康的土壤生态系统,助推区域农业的可持续发展。

Adaptive droop control for better current-sharing in VSC-based MVDC railway electrification system

The share of voltage source converter(VSC)technology is increasing in conventional power systems,and it is penetrating into specific transportation systems such as electric vehicles,railways,and ships.Researchers are identifying feasible methods to improve the performance of railway electrification systems(RESs)by utilizing VSC-based medium-voltage direct current(MVDC)railways.The continuous motion of electric trains makes the catenary resistance a variable quantity,as compared to the traction substation(TSS),and affects the currentsharing behavior of the system.A modified droop control technique is proposed in this paper for VSC-based MVDC RES to provide more effective current-sharing while maintaining catenary voltages above the minimum allowable limit.The droop coefficient is selected through an exponential function based on the ratio between the concerned TSS current and the system average current.This enables small adjustments of droop values in less concerning marginal current deviations,and provides higher droop adjustments for large current deviations.Meanwhile,the catenary voltages are regulated by considering the voltage data at the midpoint between two TSSs,which experiences the lowest voltages owing to the larger distance from the TSSs.The proposed techniques are validated via simulations and experiments.

Networked Protection Scheme with Feeding Section as a Unit for High-speed Railway Traction Power Supply System

In order to rapidly clear a fault in all-parallel autotransformer(AT)railway system,the existing protection scheme trips both faulted line and healthy line.To solve this problem,a novel unit protection scheme is proposed in this paper.From fault characteristics measured at substation(SS),AT station(ATS)and section post(SP),we can observe that SS protective relays can detect all the faults but could not be selective,and ATS or SP relays can discriminate the faulted line but not sensitively enough;therefore,we make full use of the fault characteristics and propose a novel unit protection scheme.We employ directional distance protections at SS,ATS and SP,and unify them with networked inter-tripping signals and interlocking signals.When a forward distance protection detects a fault and does not receive inter-locking signals from reverse distance protections of other relays in a short setting time,it will trip the relevant circuit breaker and send an inter-tripping signal to other relays in the same protection unit.Field test results show the proposed scheme trips only the faulted line rapidly and never interrupts the power supply of healthy lines;therefore,the proposed protection scheme obtains both selectivity and speed.