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Image courtesy of KYOCERA AVX. Metallized film capacitors exhibit a self-healing property that significantly improves their lifetime reliability characteristics. Figure 4 depicts the basic process wherein a dielectric defect results in a high current, high-temperature short circuit that quickly demetallizes the surrounding area.
Metallized film capacitors (MFCs) are reliable because of the self-healing feature and are widely used in the sub-module of the modular multilevel converter (MMC-SM). To reflect the practical working condition of MMC-SM, the self-healing characteristics of MFC in MMC-SM under DC and AC superimposed voltage with harmonics were studied in this paper.
Since the metallized film capacitor is a winding structure, the interlayer pressure has a certain influence on the self-healing characteristics of the metallized dielectric films. Chen pointed out that the capacitance loss of the winding MFC mainly occurs in the outer layer, and the pressure range in this area is <0.23 MPa .
Unfortunately, this mechanism can be dificult to control, and in the worst case, a run-away process can result, causing the destruction of the entire capacitor in short order. To avoid this, KYOCERA AVX developed a controlled self-healing process in 1974 based on the segmentation of overall capacitance into elementary cells protected by fuse gates.
The experimental results show that the parallel capacitance has little effect on the self-healing energy when the parallel capacitance is varied in the range of 10–160 μF, with the self-healing energy varying between 2 and 10 mJ, all with an average value of around 6 mJ.
Capacitors made of metallized polypropylene films suffer partial discharges, called self-healing, due to weak electrical defects. Those defects are destroyed by an electrical arc that extinguishes when enough metal of the electrodes is vapourized around this point.
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Abstract: Metallized film capacitors (MFCs) are reliable because of the self-healing feature and are widely used in the sub-module of the modular multilevel converter (MMC-SM). To reflect …
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Abstract: Metallized film capacitors (MFCs) are reliable because of the self-healing feature and are widely used in the sub-module of the modular multilevel converter (MMC-SM). To reflect …
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Capacitors made of metallized polypropylene films suffer partial discharges, called self-healing, due to weak electrical defects. Those defects are destroyed by an electrical …
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The results show that, the self-healing energy increases by 58.59% with increasing voltage in the range of 950–1150 V; in the range of 30–90 °C, the self-healing …
Abstract: Metallized film capacitors (MFCs) are known for their self-healing (SH) properties, enabling efficient and reliable operation, even under challenging conditions. These SH events …
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Segmented electrode technology is widely used in metalized film capacitors (MFCs) to limit self-healing energy and prevent self-healing failure.
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