A new fault detection method for NPC converters

Proceedings of the 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fazio, Paolo ^a   Maragliano, Gianmarco ^a   Marchesoni, Mario ^a   Parodi, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Fault handling strategy; Fault tolerance; Industrial application; Multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHODS; FAULT HANDLING STRATEGY; FEEDBACK SIGNAL; HIGH-POWER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY;

FAULT DETECTION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 80053524581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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