Automating Component-Level Stress Measurements for Inverter Reliability Estimation

Flicker, Jack; Johnson, Jay; Hacke, Peter; Thiagarajan, Ramanathan

doi:10.3390/en15134828

Automating Component-Level Stress Measurements for Inverter Reliability Estimation

Journal Article · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Energies

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/en15134828· OSTI ID:1874746

; ; Hacke, Peter;

In the near future, grid operators are expected to regularly use advanced distributed energy resource (DER) functions, defined in IEEE 1547-2018, to perform a range of grid-support operations. Many of these functions adjust the active and reactive power of the device through commanded or autonomous operating modes which induce new stresses on the power electronics components. In this work, an experimental and theoretical framework is introduced which couples laboratory-measured component stress with advanced inverter functionality and derives a reduction in useful lifetime based on an applicable reliability model. Multiple DER devices were instrumented to calculate the additional component stress under multiple reactive power setpoints to estimate associated DER lifetime reductions. A clear increase in switch loss was demonstrated as a function of irradiance level and power factor. This is replicated in the system-level efficiency measurements, although magnitudes were different—suggesting other loss mechanisms exist. Using an approximate Arrhenius thermal model for the switches, the experimental data indicate a lifetime reduction of 1.5% when operating the inverter at 0.85 PF—compared to unity PF—assuming the DER failure mechanism thermally driven within the H-bridge. If other failure mechanisms are discovered for a set of power electronics devices, this testing and calculation framework can easily be tailored to those failure mechanisms.

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Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0000861

OSTI ID:: 1874746

Journal Information:: Energies, Journal Name: Energies Journal Issue: 13 Vol. 15; ISSN ENERGA; ISSN 1996-1073

Publisher:: MDPI AGCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: Switzerland

Language:: English

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