Failure-mode analysis and protection of three-level neutral-point-clamped pwm voltage source converters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 866-874

  Wang, Fei ^a,b   Lai, Rixin ^a,c   Yuan, Xibo ^a,d   Luo, Fang ^a   Burgos, Rolando ^a   Boroyevich, Dushan ^a,e  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure modes; Fault detection; Protection; Three level neutral point clamped (NPC) converter

Indexed keywords

DC-LINK; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; GROUND FAULT DETECTION; GROUND FAULTS; LIMITING METHOD; MODE ANALYSIS; NEUTRAL VOLTAGE; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; OVER-VOLTAGES; PROTECTION METHODS; SAFE OPERATION; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC) CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ELECTROLYSIS; FAULT DETECTION; POWER CONVERTERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; UNDERGROUND CABLES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77949902437     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2040058     Document Type: Article

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