• DocumentCode
    1984822
  • Title

    Three-Leg Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Point-Clamped Converter

  • Author

    Ceballos, Salvador ; Pou, Josep ; Robles, Eider ; Zaragoza, Jordi ; Martin, José Luis

  • Author_Institution
    TECNALIA Technol. Corp., Basque
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    4-7 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    3180
  • Lastpage
    3185
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a study of the fault tolerance capacity of a neutral-point-clamped (NPC) converter. Furthermore, two possible solutions are presented. In these solutions, adding a reduced number of additional components, the behavior of the converter when a switch fails improves considerably. Simulations results that prove the correct operation of the proposed topologies are shown.
  • Keywords
    fault tolerance; switching convertors; fault tolerance capacity; neutral-point-clamped converter; three-leg converter; Costs; Fault tolerance; Industrial electronics; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Leg; Low voltage; Medium voltage; Switches; Switching converters; Topology; Fault tolerance; multilevel converter; neutral-point-clamped converter; reliability; voltage oscillation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Vigo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0754-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0755-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIE.2007.4375124
  • Filename
    4375124