EFFECT OF VOLTAGE STRESS ON RELIABILITY OF THE 3-LEVEL ANPC MULTILEVEL INVERTER FOR WIND TURBINES
Effect of Voltage Stress on Multilevel inverter for Wind Turbines
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https://doi.org/10.55766/sujst-2023-01-e01884Keywords:
Active Neutral Point Clamped (ANPC) multilevel inverter, Fault-tolerant topology, Multilevel converters, Reliability evaluationAbstract
Wind power with low or no greenhouse gas emissions has been highly prevalent over the last decade. Modern renewable energy systems rely heavily on power electronic devices such as multilevel converters (MLC) to integrate renewables into the grid or provide electricity to islanding loads. These converters’ power electronic switches have a high failure rate (approximately 34 percent). As a result, the reliability evaluation of these converters is vital. Most research has focused on developing a fault-tolerant, efficient and cost-effective topology that reduces components. Still, the reliability of these topologies has received relatively little attention. This paper studies the effect of voltage stress on three-level Active Neutral Point Clamped (ANPC) multilevel inverter reliability. The series redundancy is introduced in ANPC using redundant outer switches, making ANPC a fault-tolerant topology. The reliability of this fault-tolerant topology is compared with the fault-intolerant ANPC. The voltage stress factor is calculated for fault intolerant and proposed fault-tolerant ANPC topologies. Because of the reduced stress on the switches and redundant configuration of the outer switches, the proposed fault-tolerant ANPC is more reliable. The fault-tolerant topology proposed in this paper has the lowest voltage stress factor, resulting in better reliability.
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