大出力電気機関車出力適正化制御システムに関する研究

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We must switch from trucking to trains or ships for freight transportation in view of aggravating environ-ment destruction, depletion of fossil energy resources, and shortage of young manpower.
High power electric locomotives have been developed and are contributing an increased freight transporting capacity. But we have to restrict their power output because of voltage drop and shortage of capacity on account of long interval of traction substations. We have studied an adaptive output power control system of them to exploit their full ability with computer simulation. We propose a new method of calculating the difference between the voltage of contact wire of locomotives and its limit, and the resistance of feeding system with the position of the locomotive and traction substation, and calculating the current to be increased within the limit. Otherwise we propose to reduce output power of locomotives according to the difference between voltage of contact wire and its limit. We show that high power locomotives can be worked within the voltage limit and the standard train running time can be maintained by computer simulation proposed in the above. Thus we can introduce the high power locomotives without any large investment to expand the existing substation and can work them to the limit of their capacity.