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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Année : 2017

Versatile Three-Level FC-NPC Converter With High Fault-Tolerance Capabilities: Switch Fault Detection and Isolation and Safe Postfault Operation

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This paper deals with a hybrid fault-tolerant converter topology. It is performed through the connection of a classical three-phase three-level Neutral Point Clamped (3L-NPC) converter with a fourth three-level Flying Capacitor (3L-FC) leg. The 3L-FC leg actively balances the 3L-NPC neutral point voltage. For normal operation mode, this paper proposes a mathematical design of the filter needed to connect these two different topologies. Experimentally, and thanks to the already existing decoupling capacitors of the 3L-NPC converter, this filter requires the addition of only one low size inductance. When one fault of the power switch of the 3L-NPC occurs, the paper proposes hardware reconfiguration technique based on only two fuses and one thyristor per leg allows a safe post-fault operation recovery. This is achieved thanks to a simple fault-detection method and a new technique that combines fault leg isolation and corresponding phase post-fault connection to the neutral point. Also, a dedicated FPGA-based control of the reconfigured converter is synthetized to ensure power system availability under fault operation mode.The converter fault-tolerant capabilities are addressed through simulation results and original overall experimental validations of the fault detection and isolation and the post-fault operation steps, carried out on a 15 kW prototype converter.
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hal-02920315 , version 1 (22-07-2021)

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Afef Bennani-Ben Abdelghani, Hafedh Ben Abdelghani, Frédéric Richardeau, Jean-Marc Blaquière, Franck Mosser, et al.. Versatile Three-Level FC-NPC Converter With High Fault-Tolerance Capabilities: Switch Fault Detection and Isolation and Safe Postfault Operation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2017, 64 (8), pp.6453-6464. ⟨10.1109/TIE.2017.2682009⟩. ⟨hal-02920315⟩
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