Fault Tolerant Operation of CHB Multilevel Inverters Based on the SVM Technique Using an Auxiliary Unit

B. Hemanth Kumar; Makarand M. Lokhande; Raghavendra Reddy Karasani; Vijay B. Borghate

Fault Tolerant Operation of CHB Multilevel Inverters Based on the SVM Technique Using an Auxiliary Unit

B. Hemanth Kumar

Makarand M. Lokhande

Raghavendra Reddy Karasani

Vijay B. Borghate

Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 56-69, Jan. 2018

10.6113/JPE.2018.18.1.56

Auxiliary circuit

Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) inverter

Fault Tolerance

Reliability

Space Vector Modulation (SVM)

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Abstract

In this paper, an improved Space Vector Modulation (SVM) based fault tolerant operation on a nine-level Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) inverter with an additional backup circuit is proposed. Any type of fault in a power converter may result in a power interruption and productivity loss. Three different faults on H-bridge modules in all three phases based on the SVM approach are investigated with diagrams. Any fault in an inverter phase creates an unbalanced output voltage, which can lead to instability in the system. An additional auxiliary unit is connected in series to the three phase cascaded H-bridge circuit. With the help of this and the redundant switching states in SVM, the CHB inverter produces a balanced output with low harmonic distortion. This ensures high DC bus utilization under numerous fault conditions in three phases, which improves the system reliability. Simulation results are presented on three phase nine-level inverter with the automatic fault detection algorithm in the MATLAB/SIMULINK software tool, and experimental results are presented with DSP on five-level inverter to validate the practicality of the proposed SVM fault tolerance strategy on a CHB inverter with an auxiliary circuit.

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[IEEE Style]

B. H. Kumar, M. M. Lokhande, R. R. Karasani, V. B. Borghate, "Fault Tolerant Operation of CHB Multilevel Inverters Based on the SVM Technique Using an Auxiliary Unit," Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 56-69, 2018. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2018.18.1.56.

[ACM Style]

B. Hemanth Kumar, Makarand M. Lokhande, Raghavendra Reddy Karasani, and Vijay B. Borghate. 2018. Fault Tolerant Operation of CHB Multilevel Inverters Based on the SVM Technique Using an Auxiliary Unit. Journal of Power Electronics, 18, 1, (2018), 56-69. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2018.18.1.56.