Application-Oriented Reliability Testing of Power Electronic Components and Converters

Power electronics have been and will continue to be an enabling technology for energy production, storage, transmission, distribution, consumption. electronic converters are usually the critical links in electrical systems, affecting system security, safety, efficiency, cost-of-ownership. As a result, reliability requirements power components converter systems generally become more stringent, example, e-mobility, renewable generation, applications. Testing is one of vital engineering tools investigate failure mechanisms, identify weakest points, demonstrate robustness margins. It contributes growth along product development process likelihood reduction field operation. The required resources (i.e., testing time, sample size, facility) relevance results operation two crucial considerations implementing test. This article introduces emerging application-oriented concepts facilities through several component-level converter-level examples.