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Fault-tree based reliability analysis for paralleled half-bridge sub-module of HVDC

HVDC 병렬 하프브리지 서브모듈에 대한 고장나무기반의 신뢰성 분석

  • Kang, Feel-soon (Dept. of Electronics and Control Engineering, Hanbat National University) ;
  • Song, Sung-Geun (Energy conversion research center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
  • Received : 2019.12.02
  • Accepted : 2019.12.18
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

In HVDC systems, the full-bridge submodule increases the number of components compared to the half-bridge submodule, but the failure-rate can be reduced by securing 100 % redundancy. However, full-bridge submodules require more complex control algorithms to ensure the redundancy and to prevent arm-short with sufficient dead-time. To solve this problem, we analyse the failure-rate of the paralleled half-bridge configuration with the same number of components and 100 % redundancy as the full-bridge submodule. The fault tree analysis (FTA) method is applied to the conventional part failure analysis to reflect the operation risk of the submodule, thereby predicting the life-cycle of the submodule more accurately. To verify the validity, the failure-rate results of the proposed FTA based analysis method are compared with the failure rate obtained by the part failure method.

HVDC 시스템에서 풀-브리지 서브 모듈 구조는 하프브리지 서브 모듈에 비해 부품 수가 증가하지만 100 % 여유율 확보가 가능하여 고장률을 크게 줄일 수 있다. 그러나 풀-브리지 서브 모듈은 여유율 보장과 암(arm) 단락 방지를 위한 데드 타임(dead-time)을 확보하기 위해 복잡한 제어 알고리즘이 필요하다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 풀-브리지 서브 모듈과 동일한 부품 수와 100 % 여유율을 갖는 병렬 하프브리지 구성의 고장률을 분석한다. 기존의 부품 고장 분석에 고장나무분석 방법을 적용하여 서브 모듈의 동작 위험을 반영함으로써 서브 모듈의 수명주기를 보다 정확하게 예측할 수 있다. 병렬 하프브리지 서브모듈의 타당성 검증을 위해 FTA 기반 분석 방법과 기존의 PCA 기반 방법으로 분석된 고장률을 비교한다.

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