Novel screening techniques for wind turbine power converters

Asger Bjørn Jørgensen; Simon Dyhr Sønderskov; Nicklas Christensen; Kristian Linding Frederiksen; Eddy Iciragiye; Anders Eggert  Maarbjerg; Stig Munk-Nielsen; Bjørn Rannestad

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Novel screening techniques for wind turbine power converters

Asger Bjørn Jørgensen, Simon Dyhr Sønderskov, Nicklas Christensen, Kristian Linding Frederiksen, Eddy Iciragiye, Anders Eggert Maarbjerg, Stig Munk-Nielsen, Bjørn Rannestad

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Abstract

Power converters represent one of the highest failure rates in the wind turbine. Therefore converter manufacturers perform burn-in tests to prevent shipping of faulty converters. Recent developments in junction temperature estimation, based on accurate online IGBT collector-emitter voltage measurements, allow for thermal stress estimation of the IGBT modules. This is utilized to detect infant mortalities in power converters, by comparing thermal responses of IGBTs for faulty and non-faulty converters. The method proves to be a time and cost efficient candidate to replace burn-in tests of power converters for wind turbines applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'16 ECCE Europe), 2016
Number of pages	8
Place of Publication	Karlsruhe, Germany
Publisher	IEEE Press
Publication date	Sept 2016
ISBN (Electronic)	978-9-0758-1524-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EPE.2016.7695302
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016
Event	EPE'16 - ECCE: 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications - Karlsruhe Town Hall (Stadthalle), Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 5 Sept 2016 → 9 Sept 2016 Conference number: 18 http://www.epe2016.com/

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Conference	EPE'16 - ECCE: 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications
Number	18
Location	Karlsruhe Town Hall (Stadthalle)
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Karlsruhe
Period	05/09/2016 → 09/09/2016
Internet address	http://www.epe2016.com/

Keywords

IGBT
Power cycling
Estimation technique
Reliability

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Jørgensen, A. B., Sønderskov, S. D., Christensen, N., Frederiksen, K. L., Iciragiye, E., Maarbjerg, A. E., Munk-Nielsen, S., & Rannestad, B. (2016). Novel screening techniques for wind turbine power converters. In Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'16 ECCE Europe), 2016 IEEE Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/EPE.2016.7695302

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Novel screening techniques for wind turbine power converters. / Jørgensen, Asger Bjørn; Sønderskov, Simon Dyhr; Christensen, Nicklas et al.
Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'16 ECCE Europe), 2016. Karlsruhe, Germany: IEEE Press, 2016.

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