Case Sensitive Condition Monitoring of an IGBT Inverter in a Hybrid Car

Conference: CIPS 2016 - 9th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems
03/08/2016 - 03/10/2016 at Nürnberg, Deutschland

Proceedings: CIPS 2016

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Denk, Marco; Bakran, Mark-M. (University of Bayreuth, Department of Mechatronics, Germany)
Schafferhans, Stephan (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Abstract:
In view of ever-increasing power densities of voltage source inverters the implementation of condition monitoring functions will gain greater importance. This paper presents a concept to determine the health state of the IGBT power module and the cooling-system within a short diagnosis phase. For a short time, the IGBTs are heated with repetitive halfsinusoidal, low-frequency power losses. After thermal equilibrium is reached the amplitude and the minimum value of the temperature cycles are measured and averaged across several periods. An increased cycle amplitude indicates a degraded chip- or system-solder. If the minimum cycle temperature increases a contamination of the cooling system is identified. It is shown that the half-sinusoidal excitation of the power module solves the timing and accuracy problem of today’s health-monitoring systems and has great potential to be implemented in a real voltage source inverter.