Multi-Point Open Circuit Faults Diagnosis Strategy of Modular Multilevel Converter Under Low Modulation Index
Modular multilevel converter (MMC) is one of the most attractive topologies in medium-voltage motor drives. Unfortunately, the open-circuit (OC) faults of the submodule (SM) switching devices affect seriously the MMC's reliable operation. Under the condition of a low modulation index, OC faults...
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Veröffentlicht in: | IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) 2024-07, Vol.71 (7), p.1-10 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Modular multilevel converter (MMC) is one of the most attractive topologies in medium-voltage motor drives. Unfortunately, the open-circuit (OC) faults of the submodule (SM) switching devices affect seriously the MMC's reliable operation. Under the condition of a low modulation index, OC faults have a more severe impact, and the fault characteristics change fundamentally, bringing great challenges to the fault diagnosis strategy. Therefore, this article proposes a multipoint SM OC fault diagnosis strategy under a low modulation index, which consists of fault detection (FD) and fault location (FL). In more detail, FD improves the existing sliding-mode observer and realizes a rapid detection of the faulty arm and fault type. As for FL, it achieves the recovery of arm current and the differentiation of the SM capacitor-voltage data. Moreover, the OC fault diagnosis of SM can be achieved quickly and accurately through the strategy proposed in this article while using a low modulation index. In addition, this proposed strategy has fault tolerance and can reach the stability degree of MMC in a short time. Finally, the multipoint and the multitype fault diagnosis are carried out through simulation and experiment to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy. |
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ISSN: | 0278-0046 1557-9948 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TIE.2023.3306404 |