Fault management of multicell converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Tập 49 Số 5 - Trang 988-997 - 2002
C. Turpin1, P. Baudesson2,1, F. Richardeau1, F. Forest3, T.A. Meynard1
1Laboratoire d'Electrotechnique et d'Electronique Industrielle, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
2Schneider Electric, Grenoble France
3Laboratoire d'Electrotechnique de Montpellier, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Tóm tắt

Component counts and oversimplified reliability rules may lead to the conclusion that multilevel converters are less safe than two-level converters, just because they use more components. A better approach might be to consider that they use a different arrangement of components and also that the consequence of faults may be very different. This paper is focused on the study of the consequences of faults in hard-switching and soft-switching multicell converters. Solutions to minimize the consequences of major faults are described.

Từ khóa

#Circuit faults #Switches #Insulated gate bipolar transistors #Explosions #Switching circuits #Leg #Switching converters #Zero voltage switching #Electrical fault detection #Voltage control

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