Fault diagnosis of DC-link capacitors in three-phase AC/DC PWM converters by online estimation of equivalent series resistance

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4118-4127

  Pu, Xing Si ^a   Nguyen, Thanh Hai ^b   Lee, Dong Choon ^b   Lee, Kyo Beum ^c   Kim, Jang Mok ^d  

^a Advanced Drive Technology Company Ltd ^*  (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c Ajou University   (South Korea)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

AC DC pulsewidth modulation (PWM) converters; current measurement; dc link capacitor; equivalent series resistance (ESR); estimation; fault diagnosis; monitoring; recursive least squares (RLS); temperature sensing

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; COUNTING CIRCUITS; DIGITAL FILTERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODULATION; MONITORING;

DC LINK CAPACITOR; EQUIVALENT SERIES RESISTANCE; PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATION (PWM); RECURSIVE LEAST SQUARE (RLS); TEMPERATURE SENSING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84877775935     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2218561     Document Type: Article

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