A Data-Driven Condition Monitoring Method for Capacitor in Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC)

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Main Authors: Ou, Shuyu, Hassanifar, Mahyar, Votava, Martin, Langwasser, Marius, Liserre, Marco, Sangwongwanich, Ariya, Sahoo, Subham, Blaabjerg, Frede
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author Ou, Shuyu
Hassanifar, Mahyar
Votava, Martin
Langwasser, Marius
Liserre, Marco
Sangwongwanich, Ariya
Sahoo, Subham
Blaabjerg, Frede
author_facet Ou, Shuyu
Hassanifar, Mahyar
Votava, Martin
Langwasser, Marius
Liserre, Marco
Sangwongwanich, Ariya
Sahoo, Subham
Blaabjerg, Frede
contents The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a topology that consists of a high number of capacitors, and degradation of capacitors can lead to converter malfunction, limiting the overall system lifetime. Condition monitoring methods can be applied to assess the health status of capacitors and realize predictive maintenance to improve reliability. Current research works for condition monitoring of capacitors in an MMC mainly monitor either capacitance or equivalent series resistance (ESR), while these two health indicators can shift at different speeds and lead to different end-of-life times. Hence, monitoring only one of these parameters may lead to unreliable health status evaluation. This paper proposes a data-driven method to estimate capacitance and ESR at the same time, in which particle swarm optimization (PSO) is leveraged to update the obtained estimations. Then, the results of the estimations are used to predict the sub-module voltage, which is based on a capacitor voltage equation. Furthermore, minimizing the mean square error between the predicted and actual measured voltage makes the estimations closer to the actual values. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method are validated through simulations and experiments.
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spellingShingle A Data-Driven Condition Monitoring Method for Capacitor in Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC)
Ou, Shuyu
Hassanifar, Mahyar
Votava, Martin
Langwasser, Marius
Liserre, Marco
Sangwongwanich, Ariya
Sahoo, Subham
Blaabjerg, Frede
Signal Processing
The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a topology that consists of a high number of capacitors, and degradation of capacitors can lead to converter malfunction, limiting the overall system lifetime. Condition monitoring methods can be applied to assess the health status of capacitors and realize predictive maintenance to improve reliability. Current research works for condition monitoring of capacitors in an MMC mainly monitor either capacitance or equivalent series resistance (ESR), while these two health indicators can shift at different speeds and lead to different end-of-life times. Hence, monitoring only one of these parameters may lead to unreliable health status evaluation. This paper proposes a data-driven method to estimate capacitance and ESR at the same time, in which particle swarm optimization (PSO) is leveraged to update the obtained estimations. Then, the results of the estimations are used to predict the sub-module voltage, which is based on a capacitor voltage equation. Furthermore, minimizing the mean square error between the predicted and actual measured voltage makes the estimations closer to the actual values. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method are validated through simulations and experiments.
title A Data-Driven Condition Monitoring Method for Capacitor in Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC)
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13399