Precise modelling of switching and conduction losses in cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverters [PDF]
Nowadays, voltage source multilevel inverters are being used extensively in industry due to its many advantages, compared to conventional two level inverters, such as higher output voltage at low switching frequency, low voltage stress(dv/dt), lower ...
Alamri, B, Darwish, M
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Health Condition Assessment of Base-Plate Solder for Multi-Chip IGBT Module in Wind Power Converter
The base-plate solder fatigue of the IGBT module is one of the failures of the wind power converter; however, the existing health condition monitoring method based on infrared thermography is difficult to be applied to the actual applications.
Yaogang Hu +3 more
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Partial discharge characteristics of IGBT module in mine frequency converter under step pulse
The partial discharge occurs in IGBT device module of mine equipment.which leads to the breakdown of insulation and burns the device.In this paper the causes and characteristics of pd in IGBT module were studied.Therefore, based on the research of ...
Wang Yanwen +5 more
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Development of Three-level IGBT Module for Autonomous Traction Converter of CRH380A EMUs
According to the design requirements of three-level power module for traction converter of CRH380A EMUs,combining the main circuit structure characteristics of three-level main circuit power module, IGBT driving circuit, laminated busbar and radiator of ...
Yongjiang LIU +5 more
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Prediction Method of Driving Strategy of High-Power IGBT Module Based on MEA-BP Neural Network
An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) driver is crucial for improving the reliability of a power electronics system. This paper proposes a method for predicting the optimal driving strategy of high-power IGBT module based on backpropagation neural ...
Zhaoliang Meng +10 more
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Thermal Load Application Method for Temperature Cycle Test of Power Module PP-IGBT
Temperature cycling test is an important test method to study the thermal fatigue aging characteristics of power module press pack insulated gate bipolar transistor (PP-IGBT) devices. Therefore, taking the PP-IGBT of flexible direct converter valve power
Biaojun LI +3 more
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Thermal Design of Power Electronic Circuits [PDF]
The heart of every switched mode converter consists of several switching semiconductor elements. Due to their non-ideal behaviour there are ON state and switching losses heating up the silicon chip.
Künzi, R.
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Transient electrothermal simulation of power semiconductor devices [PDF]
In this paper, a new thermal model based on the Fourier series solution of heat conduction equation has been introduced in detail. 1-D and 2-D Fourier series thermal models have been programmed in MATLAB/Simulink.
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Probabilistic Monte-Carlo method for modelling and prediction of electronics component life [PDF]
Power electronics are widely used in electric vehicles, railway locomotive and new generation aircrafts. Reliability of these components directly affect the reliability and performance of these vehicular platforms.
Alghassi, Ali +3 more
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Analysis and hardware testing of cell capacitor discharge currents during DC faults in half-bridge modular multilevel converters [PDF]
This paper focuses on the behaviour of the cell capacitor discharge currents during DC faults in half-bridge modular multilevel converters. Active switches, not designed for fault conditions, are tripped to minimize discharge currents effect on the ...
Aboushady, A.A., Ahmed, K.H., Jovcic, D.
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