A Fault-Tolerant Control Strategy for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Rectifiers

被引:23
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作者
Iman-Eini, Hossein [1 ]
Farhangi, Shahrokh [1 ]
Schanen, Jean-Luc [2 ]
Khakbazan-Fard, Mahboubeh [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tehran, Sch Elect & Comp Engn, Tehran, Iran
[2] Grenoble Inst Technol, Grenoble Elect Engn Lab, Grenoble, France
[3] Distribut & Transmiss Management Co, Iran Power Generat, Tehran, Iran
关键词
Cascaded H-bridge rectifier; Fault diagnosis and protection; Fault-tolerant design; Redundancy and reliability; PROTECTION; OPERATION; POWER;
D O I
10.6113/JPE.2010.10.1.034
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Reliability is an important issue in cascaded H-bridge converters (CHB converters) because they use a high number of power semiconductors. A faulty power cell in a CHB converter can potentially lead to expensive downtime and great losses on the consumer side. With a fault-tolerant control strategy, operation can continue with the undamaged cells; thus increasing the reliability of the system. In this paper, the operating principles and the control method for a CHB multilevel rectifier are introduced. The influence of various faults on the CHB converter is investigated. The method of fault diagnosis and the bypassing of failed cells are explained. A fault-tolerant protection strategy is proposed to achieve redundancy in the CHB rectifier. The redundant H-bridge concept helps to deal with device failures and to increase system reliability. Simulation results verify the performance of the proposed strategy.
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页码:34 / 42
页数:9
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