Converter structure-based power loss and static thermal modeling of the press-pack IGBT three-level ANPC VSC applied to multi-MW wind turbines

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2505-2515

  Senturk, Osman S ^a   Helle, Lars ^b   Munk Nielsen, Stig ^a   Rodriguez, Pedro ^c   Teodorescu, Remus ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active NPC (ANPC); cooling plate; double pulse test; electro thermal model; neutral point clamped (NPC); power density; power loss; press pack insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); reliability; thermal model; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NPC (ANPC); COOLING PLATE; DOUBLE PULSE; ELECTRO-THERMAL MODEL; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC); POWER DENSITIES; POWER-LOSSES; THERMAL MODEL;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; MAINTENANCE; MIXED CONVECTION; POWER CONVERTERS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); RELIABILITY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); WIND TURBINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 82055197534     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2011.2168557     Document Type: Article

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