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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2016
Alstom Transport Technologies, Saint-Ouen, FR;
Johnny Bou-Saada, Rixensart, BE;
Jérôme Sadoun, Braine l'Alleud, BE;
Jonathan Scottini, Anderlecht, BE;
ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES, Saint-Ouen, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to an electric converter () for a substation feeding an electric grid and/or for recuperating the braking energy of rail vehicles traveling on a railroad track, the substation being connected to a feeder line able to supply a DC voltage to the rail vehicles traveling on the railroad track, the substation comprising an electricity distribution grid able to deliver a corresponding three-phase voltage with three phases, the converter () comprising a transformer () able to inspect the value of the three-phase voltage delivered by the electricity distribution grid, a filtering device () able to filter the three-phase voltage of the transformer (), and an inverter () connected to the filter ().