TY - GEN
T1 - Comparative reliability analysis of a three phase five level cascaded H-bridge and H-bridge with level doubling network inverter topologies
AU - Lahlou, Taha
AU - Bolvashenkov, Igor
AU - Herzog, Hans Georg
AU - Viatkin, Aleksandr
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/5/21
Y1 - 2018/5/21
N2 - This paper presents a comparative reliability analysis of two three-phase modular inverter topologies, one of which was introduced recently. The objective of the work is to demonstrate the relative prospective reliabilities of compared power electronic architectures. The reliability of the multilevel inverters is analyzed at system level, firstly, by calculating failure rate for each component, in accordance with part-count method used in MIL-HDBK-217F and secondly, by examining the failure behavior of the converters under different fault modes simulated in Matlab/Simulink environment. The latter has revealed a potential reliability advantage of newer multilevel inverter structure, for a given number of levels to be generated and amount of energy to be converted.
AB - This paper presents a comparative reliability analysis of two three-phase modular inverter topologies, one of which was introduced recently. The objective of the work is to demonstrate the relative prospective reliabilities of compared power electronic architectures. The reliability of the multilevel inverters is analyzed at system level, firstly, by calculating failure rate for each component, in accordance with part-count method used in MIL-HDBK-217F and secondly, by examining the failure behavior of the converters under different fault modes simulated in Matlab/Simulink environment. The latter has revealed a potential reliability advantage of newer multilevel inverter structure, for a given number of levels to be generated and amount of energy to be converted.
KW - cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter
KW - failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA)
KW - failure probability
KW - level doubling network (LDN)
KW - power electronics
KW - reliability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048531220&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EVER.2018.8362377
DO - 10.1109/EVER.2018.8362377
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85048531220
T3 - 2018 13th International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies, EVER 2018
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2018 13th International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies, EVER 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies, EVER 2018
Y2 - 10 April 2018 through 12 April 2018
ER -
