A Literature Review of IGBT Fault Diagnostic and Protection Methods for Power Inverters

By Bin Lu, Santosh K. Sharma. Annual Meeting of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2008

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Physics-of-Failure, Condition Monitoring, and Prognostics of Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor Modules: A Review (2015, methodology): “Lu and Sharma [13] presented existing methods for fault diagnostics and failure protection of IGBTs focusing on, in particular, three-phase power inverters.”
Short-Circuit and Ground Fault Analyses and Location in VSC-Based DC Network Cables (2012, background): “4) VSC internal faults: In terms of fault-tolerant VSCs, the research aims are to protect the system from possible insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) faults (for example, short circuits), where there are many opportunities to allocate a backup function or include redundant devices [18]–[20].”
Transitioning to Physics-of-Failure as a Reliability Driver in Power Electronics (2014, background): “As a consequence, five main types of faults can be identified: 1) single switch short-circuit (power semiconductor is desaturated working as current source or it is a physical short-circuit; 2) phase-leg short-circuit; 3) single switch opencircuit; 4) single-phase open-circuit; and 5) intermittent g”
Survey of Fault-Tolerance Techniques for Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverters (2014, background): “The semiconductor switch failures can be classified into open-circuit faults, short-circuit faults, and intermittent gate misfiring faults [2].”
A New Algorithm for Real-Time Multiple Open-Circuit Fault Diagnosis in Voltage-Fed PWM Motor Drives by the Reference Current Errors (2013, background): “Some reviews and surveys can also be found in the literature regarding fault diagnostic methods for VSIs single power switch open-circuit faults [9], [21]-[22].”
Study and Handling Methods of Power IGBT Module Failures in Power Electronic Converter Systems (2015, methodology): “1) Desaturation Detection Method [44]–[46]: Fig.”