Estudo de falhas em conversores multiníveis: curto-circuito e circuito aberto.

Abstract

The power electronics equipment reliability is a very important aspect from the energy e -ciency point of view. So, fault detection and its compensation, becomes extremely necessary for maintaining the process under fault condition near normal operation for a period of time as long as possible. This work investigates the fault-tolerant capacity of a modi ed three-level ANPC (Active Neutral Point Clamped) inverter and recti er when its switches are submitted to open and short-circuit failures. Additional thyristors, one for each inverter main switch, and fuses in series with the clamping switches have been introduced in order to improve the converter behavior when a switch fails. Fault detection and identi cation methods are presented together with con gured schemes for thirty types of failures. Simulation and experimental results are presented in order to con rm the validity of the proposed solutions, the simulation results are obtained from the software PSIM, whereas the experimental results are obtained from one experimental development platform controlled by a digital signal processor TMS320F28335.