The Method of Setting the Decisive Parameters of a Track Circuit with a Digital Track Receiver and a Power Supply End to Achieve Higher Resistance against Endangering Currents
Technical Field
The invention concerns the method of setting the decisive parameters of a track circuit with a digital track receiver and a power supply end to achieve higher resistance against endangering currents. The method is carried out using the safe evaluation of whether the track circuit is occupied or unoccupied with a track vehicle, through the power supply end adjustment elements and the receiver end adjustment elements, while the shunt status is evaluated.
Background Art
The method for setting the decisive parameters of the track circuit to achieve higher resistance against endangering currents for track circuits with a digital track receiver have not been resolved to be economically effective, nor have they been used. That is a disadvantage since this results in the track circuit with a digital track receiver not attaining the required or possible resistance against endangering currents. Meanwhile the occurrence of endangering currents is much more frequent as a result of the introduction of new powerful tractive units and tractive vehicles with asynchronous motors and these endangering currents achieve much higher intensities than in the past during pulse width regulation of the vehicles' and units' traction drives, thus when operating powerful tractive units and tractive vehicles with asynchronous motors. This has been adversely shown in the insufficient level of the parameters of the track circuits' resistance against endangering currents. This resistance is required on the basis of the requirements of the technical specifications of the interoperability between tractive traction vehicles or units and track circuits.
The available modern solutions of electronic track circuits' resistance against endangering currents is apparent from CZ 296 242 from 26 November 2004. It is a solution where the correct voltage component is fed to the track circuit along with a contractually deformed voltage component. It is possible to safely evaluate whether the length of track is occupied or unoccupied by a track vehicle in this manner on the basis of mathematical analyses. A disadvantage of this solution is the demanding generation and application of the contractually deformed voltage component. This method particularly requires the demanding facilities for the employees performing
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the regulation, maintenance and service of track circuits conceived in this manner with measurement devices.
Another available solution to the safe evaluation of the track circuit occupancy is apparent from CZ 297 033 dated 16 July 2003. This implementation of the invention does not eliminate the necessary effective influence of the endangering currents, so the safe evaluation as to whether the length of track is occupied or unoccupied by a track vehicle is not sufficiently effective functionally. The given problem is also covered by the solution according to utility model CZ 15508 from 11 May 2005 with an electronic phase-sensitive track receiver. It is an analogue system of an electronic phase-sensitive receiver, whose resistance against endangering currents is based on the increased disconnection factor. This solution, similarly to the two-phase track receiver according to invention CZ 257 559, is based on the already obsolete concept of resistance against endangering currents based on an increased disconnection factor. Though this resistance for this solution is increased to the level that was common at the time, it is still at approximately half the value recommended by the drafts of the TSI (Technical Specifications of Interoperability) from the European Normalisation Institute "CENELEC." Summary of the Invention
The aforementioned disadvantages of the known solutions are removed or substantially limited in the method of setting the decisive parameters of the track circuit with a digital track receiver and a power supply end to achieve higher resistance against endangering currents according to this invention.
The essence of this invention consists in the fact, that in the first step during the unoccupied state of the track circuit, all of the track circuit's considered combinations of discrete values of power supply end equipment setting elements and receiver end equipment setting elements, are set after the chosen steps, that differ, from the nominal values of the power supply end equipment setting elements and from the nominal values of the receiver end equipment setting elements, by units of percentage. In this first step the setting is carried out until discovering the optimum phase angle between the track voltage, which is derived from the power supply track voltage, and the referential voltage for the unoccupied state of the track circuit. The state of emergency and shunt state of the track circuit is calculated for this optimum phase angle.
In the second step the second change is made, to the track circuit's power supply end equipment setting elements and the receiver end equipment setting
elements, according to the considered combination of power supply end equipment setting elements and receiver end equipment setting elements, step by step, differing on the order of units of percentage, from the values inherent to the optimum state according to the first step so, that the goal is to find the track circuit's resultant phase angle. Thus for this purpose, the set of values for the optimum configuration of the power supply end equipment setting elements and the optimum configuration of the receiver end equipment setting elements of the track circuit, are determined so that, they are mutually the most favourable conditions for the track circuit's shunt state and state of emergency. For this an approach is chosen, where the lowest track voltage during a state of emergency is chosen so, that the lowest possible corresponding track voltage level in the shunt state, is found. Then, the resulting value of the power supply end setting elements found in this manner, and the resulting value of the receiver end setting elements found in this manner, are fast set, for the value of the power supply end equipment found in this manner, and for the value of the receiver end equipment found in this manner, thereby also setting the found resulting phase angle between the track circuit's track voltage and reference voltage, for example in the form of the configuration data of the track circuit with a digital track receiver and with a power supply end.
With an advantage the very precise measurements of the reference voltage values are carried out gradually, including all interferential and endangering components of the reference voltage, which could be induced into the reference voltage circuits from the surroundings of the track circuit with a digital track receiver and with a power supply end. Thus the voltages induced by the endangering currents are also measured so, that when a value of these interferential and endangering components of the reference voltage is above a limit, an instruction is sent to the digital track receiver for its safe field suppression so, that the given track circuit with a digital track receiver safely appears to be occupied by a track vehicle.
The main advantage of the method of setting the decisive parameters of the track circuit with a digital track receiver and a power supply end is achieving higher resistance against endangering currents. It leads to the optimum calculation of these parameters and to the subsequent unambiguous setting primarily of the phase ratios between the track voltage and the reference voltage on the basis of the optimisation of the shunt state and the state of emergency. This is done objectively (i.e. without the influence of a human factor). This process greatly speeds up the activity in question and shortens the connected closure of railroad traffic. Another advantage is
the fact, that in the event of the occurrence of components of endangering voltage in the reference voltage that are over the limit, it leads to the occupation of the given electric track section of the given track circuit, which prevents the dangerous state in time and the resulting failure is reported, or appears in time. Another strength is that the setting of the track circuit's decisive parameters, i.e. its parametrisation, is part of the data configuration. It is implemented once, before the starting activities of the track circuit with a digital track receiver, on the basis of the optimisation of the shunt state and state of emergency, depending on the length of the track circuit and the earth leakage admittance.
Brief Description of the Drawings
The invention is described in detail in the example implementation, depicted on the attached diagrams, which show Fig.1 generalised schematic depiction of a track circuit, Fig. 2 vector diagram of phase dependence and
Fig. 3 depiction the discretisation (digitalisation) resulting values of the setting elements.
Implementation Examples In the example implementation, depicted schematically in Figs. 1 , 2 and 3, the method for setting the decisive parameters of the track circuit KO with a digital track receiver DKP and with a power supply end NK to achieve higher resistance against endangering currents IR is described. The method is clarified further on the basis of the vector diagram presented in Fig. 2, which depicts the course of the track voltage UK in relation to the reference voltage UR. The search for the optimal and resulting values of the track circuit's KO power supply end NK setting elements NPN and the receiver end PK setting elements NPP is apparent from Fig. 3.
In the first step, during the unoccupied state VS of the track circuit KO, all of the considered combinations of the discrete values H (Fig. 3) of the power supply end equipment setting elements NPN and the receiver end equipment setting elements NPP of the track circuit KO, after the chosen steps ZK, differing from the nominal value NHN the supply end setting elements NPN and from the nominal value NHP of the receiver end setting elements NPP of the track circuit KO, on the order of percentage points are set; thus the optimum phase angle αo (Fig. 2) between the track voltage UK, which is induced from the power supply track voltage NUK. and
between the reference voltage UR , is found, for the unoccupied state VS of the track circuit KO. The state of emergency HS and shunt state SS of the track circuit KO are calculated for this optimum phase angle go.
In the second step another change is made to the track circuit's KO power supply end equipment setting elements NPN and the receiver end equipment setting elements NPP, according to the considered combination of power supply end equipment setting elements NPN and receiver end equipment setting elements NPP. step by step, differing on the order of units of percentage, from the values inherent to the optimum state according to the first step so, that the goal is to find the track circuit's KO resultant phase angle αy. Thus for this purpose the set of values for the optimum configuration of the power supply end equipment setting elements NPNO and the set of values for the optimum configuration of the receiver end equipment setting elements NPPO of the track circuit KO, are determined so, that they are mutually the most favourable conditions for the track circuit's KO shunt state SS and state of emergency HS. For this purpose an approach is chosen, where the lowest track voltage UKH in a state of emergency is chosen so, that the lowest possible corresponding track voltage UKS level in the shunt state is found. Upon which the resulting value VHN of the power supply end setting elements found in this manner and the resulting value VHP of the receiver end setting elements NPN found in this manner, are fast set, for the track circuit's KO value of the power supply end NK equipment found in this manner and for the track circuit's KO value of the receiver end PK equipment found in this manner, and thereby also setting the resulting phase angle αy, between the track circuit's KO track voltage UK and between reference voltage UR, for example in the form of the configuration data of the track circuit KO with a digital track receiver DKP and with a power supply end NK.
A suitable method for setting the decisive parameters of the track circuit KO with a digital track receiver DKP and a power supply end NK to achieve higher resistance against endangering currents IR, is apparent from the generalised schematic diagram of the implementation given in Fig. 1. In this case the very precise measurements of the reference voltage UR values are carried out gradually, including all interferential and endangering components of the reference voltage URR. which could be induced into the reference voltage UR circuits from the surroundings of the track circuit KO with a digital track receiver DKP and with a power supply end NK. Thus the voltages of the induced endangering currents TC are also measured. Thus when an overlimit value of these interfering and endangering components of the
reference voltage URRn is determined, an instruction is sent to the digital track receiver PKP for its safe field suppression so, that the given track circuit KO with a digital track receiver DKP safely appears to be occupied by a track vehicle KV.
Industrial Applicability
As evident from the aforementioned description, the method for setting the decisive parameters of a track circuit KO with a digital track receiver DKP and with a power supply end NK to achieve higher resistance against endangering currents IR1 can be used for both the new construction of railway signalling equipment with track circuits KO with digital track receivers DKP1 as well as for innovating existing track circuits. The invention will particularly find application in all electrified routes on which powerful tractive vehicles and tractive units with asynchronous motors, whose emissions of endangering currents reach high, even overlimit values, in the sense of the valid norms, should run.