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Reliability and Cost based Redundancy Design for Modular Multilevel Converter

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Tu, Pengfei, Yang, Shunfeng, Wang, Peng·2018·IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

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The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is very attractive in a high-voltage dc (HVdc) transmission system due to its high modularity and scalability. It is also a promising candidate for medium-voltage applications. An MMC has many power devices that lead to a relatively low reliability based only on a direct failure rate calculation. The reliability of an MMC can be improved by redundant designs. Lots of redundant designs and strategies have been proposed in recent years, while their reliability improvements are hardly quantified in existing literature. In practice, reliability improvement with constraint costs is a challenge. In view of these, this paper proposes a reliability and cost assessment scheme for MMC redundant designs and strategies. Reliability and cost are quantified for comparison purposes. A medium-voltage application is used to demonstrate the reliability and cost assessment scheme. The reliability analysis is based on a combinatorial model and the Poisson process model. The cost analysis focuses on capital cost and power loss cost. The proposed reliability and cost analysis scheme provides a guideline for MMC redundant design and redundant strategy selection.

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Authors: Tu, P., Yang, S., & Wang, P.
Affiliations: Nanyang Technological University (SG)
ORCID: Tu, Pengfei
Yang, Shunfeng
Wang, Peng
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Published: 2018
Pages: 1-1
ISSN: 0278-0046 (ISSN-L)
1557-9948
DOI: 10.1109/tie.2018.2793263
OpenAlex: W2784130885
Cited by: 199
References: 39
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 6
FWCI: 9.86
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
hdl.handle.net
Licence: ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/downloads/license-information/IEEE.html (vor)
doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
Locations: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (publishedVersion)
DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Research Foundation
National Research Foundation Singapore
Topics: Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › HVDC Systems and Fault Protection
Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Multilevel Inverters and Converters
Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
Keywords: modular multilevel converter, redundancy design, reliability analysis, cost analysis, Poisson process model, capital costs, power loss cost, medium voltage applications, HVDC transmission

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