1. Reduced number of auxiliary H-bridge power cells for post-fault operation of three phase cascaded H-bridge inverter.
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Aleenejad, Mohsen, Jafarishiadeh, Seyyedmahdi, Mahmoudi, Hamid, and Ahmadi, Reza
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POWER electronics ,CELLS ,ELECTRIC network topology ,BRIDGES - Abstract
This work offers a fault-tolerant strategy that uses a combination of a hardware-based and a control-based faulttolerant methods for multilevel (ML) cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converters. The possibility of a switch failure in an ML converter is higher than a conventional inverter due to the increased number of power electronics switches. Although the event of a single switch failure is more likely, nonetheless, the fault tolerant operation of a ML converter with two or more faulty switches needs to be addressed as well. This article first offers a hardware topology that can bypass the faulty H-bridge cell and replace it with an auxiliary cell, in the event of a single switch failure. Then, it enhances the hardware topology with a modulation-based faulttolerant method for the event of more than one defective switch. Using this strategy, the CHB converter will be able to operate with maximum achievable output voltage in the post-fault condition. Experimental results are presented for a seven-level CHB converter for the validation of the theoretical outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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