Design and Analysis of a New Evaluation Circuit for Capacitors Used in a High-Power Three-Phase Inverter

被引:23
作者
Hasegawa, Kazunori [1 ]
Omura, Ichiro [1 ]
Nishizawa, Shin-ichi [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Kyushu Inst Technol, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 8080196, Japan
[2] Natl Inst Adv Ind Sci & Technol, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058568, Japan
关键词
DC-link capacitors; high-power density; reliability; three-phase inverters; FILM CAPACITORS; SYSTEM;
D O I
10.1109/TIE.2015.2511097
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
DC-link capacitors in power electronic converters are a major constraint on improvement of power density as well as reliability. Evaluation of the dc-link capacitors in terms of power loss, ageing, and failure rate will play an important role in design stages of the next-generation power converters. This paper proposes a new evaluation circuit for dc-link capacitors used in a high-power three-phase inverter, which is intended for testing power loss, failure rate, ageing, and so on. The evaluation circuit produces a practical ripple current waveform and a dc bias voltage into a capacitor under test, in which the ripple current is equivalent to that generated by the three-phase inverter on the dc link. The evaluation circuit employs a full-scale current-rating and downscaled voltage-rating inverter for producing the ripple current, so that the power rating of the evaluation circuit is much smaller than that of a full-scale current-rating and full-scale voltage-rating inverter. Theoretical analysis and simulated results verify the effectiveness of new evaluation circuit.
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页码:2679 / 2687
页数:9
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