Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel Converter
With many advantages, modular multilevel convert (MMC) has been extensively used in high and medium voltage power transmission projects. The thermal performance and reliability of components in MMC are key issues in system operation. However, in the current research on the reliability of MMC compone...
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| author | Longjun Wang Guoping Ou Zhenwei Zhou Gang Wang Pengfei Yu Zheng Zhang |
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| description | With many advantages, modular multilevel convert (MMC) has been extensively used in high and medium voltage power transmission projects. The thermal performance and reliability of components in MMC are key issues in system operation. However, in the current research on the reliability of MMC components, there are few methods to improve service lifetime expectancy of the components. This paper proposes a balance control algorithm, based on the cumulative fatigue damage of components, feedback to the control terminal for allocating the sub-module (SM) operating state and generating trigger pulses. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified and discussed in case studies. It is found that this algorithm is able to improve the aging degree of components in the meanwhile, the improvement in MMC reliability comes at the cost of slightly increasing capacitor voltage fluctuations and total harmonic distortion (THD). Due to the limitation of capacitor thermal performance, SM capacitor banks become a weak link in MMC reliability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d727e575fb184532a3375739456152202023-11-20T12:49:49ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732020-09-011318464010.3390/en13184640Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel ConverterLongjun Wang0Guoping Ou1Zhenwei Zhou2Gang Wang3Pengfei Yu4Zheng Zhang5School of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, ChinaSchool of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, ChinaScience and Technology on Reliability Physics and Application of Electronic Component Laboratory, The Fifth Electronics Research Institute of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Guangzhou 510610, ChinaSchool of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, ChinaScience and Technology on Reliability Physics and Application of Electronic Component Laboratory, The Fifth Electronics Research Institute of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Guangzhou 510610, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Products Reliability Technology, Guangzhou 510610, ChinaWith many advantages, modular multilevel convert (MMC) has been extensively used in high and medium voltage power transmission projects. The thermal performance and reliability of components in MMC are key issues in system operation. However, in the current research on the reliability of MMC components, there are few methods to improve service lifetime expectancy of the components. This paper proposes a balance control algorithm, based on the cumulative fatigue damage of components, feedback to the control terminal for allocating the sub-module (SM) operating state and generating trigger pulses. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified and discussed in case studies. It is found that this algorithm is able to improve the aging degree of components in the meanwhile, the improvement in MMC reliability comes at the cost of slightly increasing capacitor voltage fluctuations and total harmonic distortion (THD). Due to the limitation of capacitor thermal performance, SM capacitor banks become a weak link in MMC reliability.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/18/4640modular multilevel convertercumulative fatigue damagethermal stressesreliability improvementlifetime balancing control |
| spellingShingle | Longjun Wang Guoping Ou Zhenwei Zhou Gang Wang Pengfei Yu Zheng Zhang Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel Converter Energies modular multilevel converter cumulative fatigue damage thermal stresses reliability improvement lifetime balancing control |
| title | Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel Converter |
| title_full | Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel Converter |
| title_fullStr | Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel Converter |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel Converter |
| title_short | Cumulative Fatigue Damage Balancing for Modular Multilevel Converter |
| title_sort | cumulative fatigue damage balancing for modular multilevel converter |
| topic | modular multilevel converter cumulative fatigue damage thermal stresses reliability improvement lifetime balancing control |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/18/4640 |
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