Data sets of measured pantograph voltage and current of European AC railways

Andrea Mariscotti

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105477

Data sets of measured pantograph voltage and current of European AC railways

Data Brief. 2020 Apr 20:30:105477. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105477. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Author

Andrea Mariscotti¹

Affiliation

¹ DITEN, University of Genova, Via Opera Pia 11A, I-16145 Genova, Italy.

Abstract

AC railways are characterized by peculiar Power Quality phenomena, where moving loads (trains, locomotives, etc.) interact with the supply network that provides electrical energy through the overhead contact line. Distortion, resonances, transients overlap in a complex dynamic scenario, that sees several and various problems of Power Quality, network stability, power and energy metering and disturbance to systems and equipment. For all related studies and analysis raw experimental data are extremely important. The provided data consists of time-domain waveforms of sampled pantograph voltage and current: each recording is tagged with the specific train operating condition (traction, cruising/coasting, braking, standstill), the active power and the speed, to support correlation and clustering of data.

Keywords: Harmonics; Measurement of electrical quantities; Power quality; Railways; Rolling stock.