Abstract: Among the performance requirements of railway equipment applied to the 3.0 kV DC catenary-fed auxiliary power supplies (APS), the most significant one is compliance with electric safety requirements. It provides the specific feature for the power circuit topology of APS converter, requiring an isolation transformer to decouple input and output sides (with the isolation voltage at least 12 kV). Since the isolation transformer in switching-mode power supplies contributes about 25…30 % of the overall volume and more than 30 % of the overall weight, the design of a compact and lightweight system will be a great challenge for the designer [1]. This paper is mainly addressed to some specific design issues that are encountered during the development of isolation transformers for the rolling stock APS. For the middle-frequency (500...3000 Hz) highpower transformers, the optimal transformer design rule of the copper and core loss equalization will not work. Main attention here must be paid to select proper material for the magnetic core and to define an optimal operating flux density to minimize the dimensions and to improve operability and efficiency of the transformer, respectively. For the isolation transformers designed for the APS converters with high input voltage and load variations, threat related to magnetic core saturation caused by transient conditions should be considered. These and some other specific design issues (minimization of leakage inductance and parasitic capacitances, high-voltage isolation, etc.) make the design of such devices very challenging.
Vinnikov, D., Lehtla, T., Strzelecki, R., & Galkin, I. (2008). Design and development of the middle-frequency isolation transformer for the high-voltage DC/DC converter. The International Conference on Electrical Engineering, 6(6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2008), 1-9. doi: 10.21608/iceeng.2008.34344
MLA
D. Vinnikov; T. Lehtla; R. Strzelecki; I. Galkin. "Design and development of the middle-frequency isolation transformer for the high-voltage DC/DC converter". The International Conference on Electrical Engineering, 6, 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2008, 2008, 1-9. doi: 10.21608/iceeng.2008.34344
HARVARD
Vinnikov, D., Lehtla, T., Strzelecki, R., Galkin, I. (2008). 'Design and development of the middle-frequency isolation transformer for the high-voltage DC/DC converter', The International Conference on Electrical Engineering, 6(6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2008), pp. 1-9. doi: 10.21608/iceeng.2008.34344
VANCOUVER
Vinnikov, D., Lehtla, T., Strzelecki, R., Galkin, I. Design and development of the middle-frequency isolation transformer for the high-voltage DC/DC converter. The International Conference on Electrical Engineering, 2008; 6(6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2008): 1-9. doi: 10.21608/iceeng.2008.34344