Capacitor Condition Monitoring for Modular Multilevel Converter Based on Charging Transient Voltage Analysis

Hongjian Xia, Yi Zhang*, Minyou Chen, Wei Lai, Huai Wang, Dan Luo

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Abstract

This article proposes a capacitor condition monitoring (CM) method for modular multilevel converter (MMC) in motor drive applications. The proposed method is based on wavelet decomposition of transient voltage signals, which is independent of modulation schemes and control strategies. The equivalent series resistance (ESR) change can be detected with a moderate computation requirement. Both simulation and experimental results have verified the performance of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
JournalI E E E Transactions on Power Electronics
Volume38
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)3847-3856
Number of pages10
ISSN0885-8993
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2023

Keywords

  • Capacitor
  • Capacitors
  • Discrete wavelet transforms
  • Hardware
  • Modulation
  • Transient analysis
  • Voltage
  • Wavelet analysis
  • condition monitoring
  • modular multilevel converter
  • transient voltage analysis
  • wavelet

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