Abstract:
Objective: To address the issue of abnormal electric shock incidents among maintenance personnel caused by improper operations during metro vehicle workshop maintenance, a control scheme for the auxiliary highvoltage bus ring feeder in urban rail transit vehicle is proposed. Method: The proposed scheme is designed based on four aspects: highvoltage box safety circuit, feeder contact box safety loop, ring feeder control, and mediumvoltage bus control. Trip switch, workshop power socket cover position switch and grounding isolation switch are installed on the front cover of vehicle highvoltage box. A feeder contact box is added to the existing highvoltage circuit, which includes the feeder contactor, lowvoltage control circuit, and the trip switch on the box cover. A network control unit and a logic unit are set up to collect the status of highvoltage box front cover, workshop power, grounding isolation switch, and feeder contactor box cover, and perform logic diagnostics based on the cover and switch position status. Result & Conclusion: (1) When all the aforementioned status are in the normal position, the feeder contactor coil is energized, and the highvoltage feeder extends through two power units of the entire vehicle. (2) If any cover status is abnormally disconnected, the feeder contactor coils of both power units lose power, resulting in disconnection of the highvoltage feeder, providing power only within the local power unit. Simultaneously, the logic diagnostic unit controls the power loss of threephase gridrelay, disconnecting the threephase bus contactor, and the threephase bus is connected only within the local power unit. (3) In addition to highvoltage safety loop control, the threephase bus can also protect its own status. When there is no shortcircuit fault, the threephase bus contactors are closed, and in case of shortcircuit fault, the contactors are disconnected; when the auxiliary inverter diagnosis indicates an internal shortcircuit, the corresponding auxiliary inverter is cut off and reconnected to the grid. If the auxiliary inverter diagnosis indicates an external shortcircuit, the threephase contactors are disconnected. (4) In case of a network failure throughout the vehicle, and the auxiliary inverter detects an internal shortcircuit fault, the threephase contactors are disconnected.