The Feasibility Study on Thermal Loading Control of Wind Power Converters with a Flexible Switching Frequency

Zian Qin; Huai Wang; Frede Blaabjerg; Poh Chiang Loh

doi:10.1109/ECCE.2015.7309728

The Feasibility Study on Thermal Loading Control of Wind Power Converters with a Flexible Switching Frequency

Zian Qin, Huai Wang, Frede Blaabjerg, Poh Chiang Loh

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Thermal loading of wind power converters is critical to their reliability performance. Especially for IGBT modules applied in a converter, both of the mean value and variation of the junction temperature have significant impact on the lifetime. Besides other strategies to reduce the thermal loading of the IGBT modules, the power losses and thereby the thermal stresses can be controlled by varying the PWM switching frequency according to power loading conditions. This paper investigates the feasibility to apply this flexible modulation strategy in a 3 MW wind power converter application to reduce the temperature fluctuations due to wind speed variations. The trade-off between the reduced amplitude of temperature fluctuations and the additional power losses that may be introduced is quantitatively studied.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
Number of pages	7
Publisher	IEEE Press
Publication date	Sept 2015
Pages	485-491
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2015.7309728
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015
Event	2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) - Montreal, Canada Duration: 20 Sept 2015 → 24 Sept 2015

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Conference	2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	20/09/2015 → 24/09/2015

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Qin, Z, Wang, H , Blaabjerg, F & Loh, PC 2015, The Feasibility Study on Thermal Loading Control of Wind Power Converters with a Flexible Switching Frequency. in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). IEEE Press, pp. 485-491, 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Montreal, Canada, 20/09/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2015.7309728

The Feasibility Study on Thermal Loading Control of Wind Power Converters with a Flexible Switching Frequency. / Qin, Zian; Wang, Huai ; Blaabjerg, Frede et al.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). IEEE Press, 2015. p. 485-491.

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