TY - GEN
T1 - A new evaluation circuit with a low-voltage inverter intended for capacitors used in a high-power three-phase inverter
AU - Hasegawa, Kazunori
AU - Omura, Ichiro
AU - Nishizawa, Shin Ichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/5/10
Y1 - 2016/5/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/APEC.2016.7468295
DO - 10.1109/APEC.2016.7468295
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84973622031
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
SP - 3032
EP - 3037
BT - 2016 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 31st Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2016
Y2 - 20 March 2016 through 24 March 2016
ER -