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LLC resonant converter is most frequently effective DC/DC converter to improve the power density and efficiency of DC charging module in electric vehicle power supply. Soft-switching technique can be applied in the topology to reduce the switch losses. However, DC charging module brings about 27% of failures in Electric vehicles (EV) charge device. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the reliability...
The reliability aspect study of Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is of great interest in industry applications, such as offshore wind. Lifetime prediction of key components is an important tool to design MMC with fulfilled reliability specifications. While many efforts have been made to the lifetime prediction of IGBT modules in renewable energy applications by considering long-term varying operation...
The modular multi-level converter is an upcoming topology for drive application in the megawatt power range. This paper presents a comprehensive reliability survey for this kind of converter which can be used for its optimal designing. In this survey, converter total failure rate, is calculated for different number of output levels to find the optimal condition in which converter can provide the best...
Active Thermal Control (ATC) consists in driving power switches in a less efficient way when low load conditions are present. The resulting wasted power is used to self-heat the device, reducing amplitude and occurrence of thermal cycles and hence improving the reliability. This paper presents a novel way to control losses, and hence temperature, of both positive- and negative-current devices in half-bridge...
This paper proposes an Active Thermal Control (ATC) method for MOS-gated power switches aimed at reducing temperature swing amplitude during operation. It leverages on the fact that thermal cycle amplitude of many actuation system components (such as power devices) has a large impact on the system reliability and lifetime. These figures can then be improved, which eases the adoption of electrification...
Reliability of power electronics is a critical issue, as most of the electrical energy is processed by power electronics. Various stressors impact the safe operation of the systems, including harsh environments, temperature variations, humidity, vibration and radiation. Physics of failure analysis uses models that describe how failure mechanisms evolve over time and induce failures. Active methods...
This paper proposes a non-symmetrical permanent-magnet linear motor traction system (PMLMTS), in which the primary permanent-magnet linear motor (PMLM) is employed. Four movers are mounted with same phase angles. There are nine legs, including eight independent legs and one common leg. All legs have same normal voltage but different normal currents. The normal current of the common leg is four times...
This paper has proposed a method to guarantee high reliability and long-life guarantee aerospace components. According to the different system reliability index, based on the system engineering theory, the different components reliability index is obtained through the reliability distribution, and a reasonable index system is established. According to different indicators, the sampling plan and test...
The on-going electrification transportation system revolution has already started and the continuous evolution of power electronics allows new and more reliable system layouts and control strategies to be investigated. Mainly, this revolution is driven by increased reliability levels. Since multi-three phase motors are fault tolerant by definition, they are a very good candidate for more reliable...
With the increasing use of medium voltage drive systems in power plant, it is interesting to develop a novel internal electrification scheme based on common DC bus concept. Despite obvious improvement on efficiency increasing, one of the most concerned issues is whether reliability performance would decrease to an unacceptable level led to by introduction of common DC bus layout. To mitigate the concern,...
Bipolar DC system provides flexible connection and decreased line-to-ground voltage level at the expense of potential voltage unbalance between positive pole and negative pole. Voltage balancer works as “Dependent Voltage Source” to eliminate the unbalance voltage. It is a critical grid-forming component for bipolar system. Considering the need of system expansion and “N+1” redundancy design, bipolar...
Silicon carbide (SiC) devices have its unique advantages of high operating temperature, high voltage capability with low switching losses when compared to its silicon counterparts. This paper presents a systematic method for long-term reliability analysis for SiC devices. The reliability block diagrams (RBDs) have been established for a SiC power module with standard wire-bonded package. The reliability...
This paper proposes an adaptive power management strategy with reduced sensor requirement for grid connected hybrid microgrid system under faulty conditions which occur in grid tied converters. Generally parallel combination of grid tied converters (GTCs) are used as an interface between microgrid and grid, which are responsible for power transfer among renewable energy sources (RES), hybrid energy...
Recently, fault indicators with communication function have been increasingly used in fault diagnosis of distribution networks. In this paper, an objective function which considers the reliability index of the distribution network and economic factors synthetically has been proposed for optimal placement of fault indicators in distribution networks, and binary particle swarm optimization algorithm...
DC-DC converters face an exponential growth in the context of the ever-increasing use of DC grids, namely at the home and business levels. In this domain, efficiency and reliability are of major concern. Solutions already available in the literature concerning fault-tolerant DC-DC converters do not consider the application of such converters in household environments and their constraints. To solve...
Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis are considered key features in order to increase the reliability and availability levels of wind turbine systems. Accordingly, this paper proposes a single fault diagnostic algorithm for multiple IGBTs open-circuit faults and current sensor faults in direct-driven wind turbines, based on permanent magnet synchronous generators with full-scale back-to-back converters...
Emerging technologies in communication (5G) and its use in new industrial automation approaches (smart manufacturing) require more than today precise specifications of dependability requirements and assurance at the interface between application and communication. The growing role of dependability assessment for wireless automation is addressed. First an overview is given over general definitions...
The ability to provide a high Quality of Service is a crucial aspect in the acceptance and widespread dispersion of the Industrial Internet of Things and it has a key role to enhance the end user experience. The emerging fog cloud computing architectural concept aims to diminish the experienced latency while simultaneously providing a seemingly unlimited quantity of computational power by moving computations...
In order to elevate equipment-oriented traditional asset management to system-oriented advanced asset management (AAM) decision-making for smart power grid, for the problem that influence of different positions of the equipment in network topology on system reliability is not taken into consideration in retiring strategies of transformer LCC (life cycle cost), which may cause overestimation or underestimation...
This work presents the major characteristics and lessons learned by the development and prototype implementation of an event-oriented and cloud-based SCADA system that is constructed using a microservice architecture. The microservices are then utilized to propose an approach for implementing product-driven production systems under the RAMI4.0 specification.
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