A new fault tolerant NPC converter system for high power induction motor drives

SDEMPED 2011 - 8th IEEE Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 337-343

  Farnesi, Stefano ^a   Fazio, Paolo ^a   Marchesoni, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

converter control; converter diagnostics; Fault tolerance; induction motor drive; multilevel converters; NPC converter

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FRONT ENDS; ASYNCHRONOUS MOTOR; CONVERTER CONTROLS; CONVERTER SYSTEM; FAULT-TOLERANT; FAULT-TOLERANT STRATEGY; FRONT END; HIGH-POWER; INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE; LOW COSTS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE MOTOR; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS; NPC CONVERTER; NPC INVERTERS; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY;

DRIVES; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; INDUCTION MOTORS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 81255147065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEMPED.2011.6063645     Document Type: Conference Paper

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