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Improvement of brake energy regeneration in the electric vehicle (EV) using the EDLC (Electrical Double Layer Capacitor) is studied. In order to save the battery and increase the driving range of the EV, improvement of power regeneration efficiency is important. The power regeneration system for the EV has been developed. The system consists of the EDLC as the energy storage, the synchronous motor...
Converter power loss analysis is one of the main knowledge bases to further handle and improve the performance and efficiency of the conversion systems. This paper significantly investigates the power losses in the reduced-switch innovation of the nine-switch inverter powering two common three-phase inductive loads with the potential operation of the common-frequency mode. A new contribution is based...
This paper further describes our work presented in Industry Application Society 2016 Conference, with more details related to the control and operation of the microgrid. The DC microgrid facility was custom designed and implemented at CCNY with minimal off-the-shelf components to enable flexibility and reconfiguration capability. The design steps, requirements, and experimental results of the developed...
A mathematical model of control stations total power losses and efficiency for centrifugal pumps feeding submersible motors for the oil extraction was developed. The model makes possible to calculate separate components of these power losses. A simplified, convenient for application model of total power losses and efficiency values is proposed depending on the output current of control stations and...
Modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a promising topology of Voltage Source Converter based High voltage Direct Current (VSC-HVDC) system with many outstanding advantages such as low switching frequency, low voltage distortion and harmonics. Pre-charge process is one of the core issues of MMC based system, especially for the MMC with DC fault blocking capability. In this paper, considering a novel...
Impedance source inverters have attracted much attention in recent years due to their ability to behave as voltage elevators/reducers at their output terminals without the need of an extra dc/dc converter to accomplish this task. Among these inverters, the quasi-impedance source inverter (qZSI) is one of the most known topologies. It considers two basic operating states, the no-shoot-through state...
Wide-bandgap (WBG) power devices such as SiC devices can operate at higher switching speed, higher voltage and higher temperature. While the opportunities in performance improvement with WBG devices are clear, there are significant design challenges. For example, the fast switching speed and high dv/dt can cause increased level of electro-magnetic interference (EMI), current overshoot and cross-talk...
A hybrid resonant zero-voltage zero-current switching three-level converter is proposed in this paper, which undergoes half of the input voltage for switches. The proposed converter, utilizing two transformers, adopts IGBTs for all six power switches and operates in discontinuous current mode and can achieve zero-current switching for the four main switches and rectifier diodes over the whole load...
This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of a high power, i.e., 1200-V/600-A, double-sided multichip phase-leg IGBT module with the purpose of increasing power density compared with conventional wire-bonded IGBT modules. Nanosilver paste is chosen as the die-attach material so as to increase the maximum application temperature by avoiding the creep failure at high temperatures compared...
Although the hybrid switch consisting of high power Si IGBT and low power SiC MOSFET achieves reduction of losses and cost, there is a severe concern of its short-circuit capability due to its internal SiC MOSFET with small die size. Experimental study shows that the short-circuit capability of hybrid switch is limited by that of SiC MOSFET. The physical mechanism of short-circuit capability of SiC...
A conventional medium-voltage large-capacity bidirectional chopper used in a battery energy storage system for dc electric railways is equipped with a heavy and bulky inductor for current smoothing. This paper presents a bidirectional chopper for the purpose of reducing the size and volume of an inductor, which is characterized by using an auxiliary converter in addition to the main converter. The...
This paper presents the design and control of a three-phase ground power supply unit for aircraft servicing. A new mixed technology converter composed by a three-phase Silicon Carbide (SiC) full bridge unit and a three-phase full bridge IGBT unit connected across the same dc link is used instead of the conventional full bridge configuration. In order to satisfy the stringent requirements of the output...
Based on the dynamic behavior of IGBT and diode, this paper proposed an experimental method for extracting stray inductance of bus bars without high bandwidth current measurement. The experiment is implemented by a double pulse test of the 4.5kV/3000A HVIGBTs. The stray inductance extraction results of several methods were analyzed and compared, verifying the accuracy of the proposed method.
A three phase power block based on novel 1.7 kV/450 A SiC-MOSFET is designed and tested. To benchmark the performance of the power block, a through comparison is done with currently standardized 1.7 kV/450 A Si-IGBT based three phase power block. Key performance indices, including power rating curves at different switching frequencies and power factors; temperature ripple at different fundamental...
In this paper, a comparative evaluation between a commercial 3.3 kV/400 A Si-IGBT and a 3.3 kV/400 A SiC MOSFET power module in half-bridge configuration is presented. With a constant current of 250 A, a lower forward voltage (VDS) drop of 1.6 V is obtained for SiC MOSFET at 300 K compared to Si IGBT. At 400 A, the difference is reduced to 1.3 V. SiC MOSFET offers an on-state resistance of 8.7 mΩ,...
This paper proposes a hypothetic silicon carbide (SiC) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) power module for the medium voltage (MV) variable frequency drive (VFD). A peer-to-peer comparison between commercial silicon (Si) insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and the proposed SiC MOSFET module results in some promising results to support the introduction of SiC power modules...
Since the traditional half-bridge modular multilevel converter (HB-MMC) is endangered under DC side short-circuit faults. This paper proposes a novel sub-module (SM) topology for MMC with DC fault limitation capability. The fault current is fully transferred to the bypass thyristor by turning off all IGBTs when DC short-circuit fault occurs, then the diode freewheeling effect is eliminated and all...
In this paper, the authors describe the design of an 80kW power converter for an electrostatic precipitator using SiC MOSFETs. The structure of the converter is based on the series parallel resonant topology, PRC-LCC, with a capacitor as output filter. This topology can cope adequately with the parasitic elements of the step-up transformer involved in the application. The SiC switches present lower...
The introduction in the semiconductor market of the SiC technology enables power designers the development of power converters with higher power density (W/m3) in comparison with the traditional converters based on Si power semiconductors. This work presents the redesign of a DC-DC converter, used in railway traction applications with full-SiC modules. The low current rating of the actual full-SiC...
The recently emerging SiC devices provide a promising solution to improve power converter efficiency and power density. However the expensive cost limited the widely use of SiC device. The parallel connection of SiC MOSFET and Si IGBT is introduced in this paper to utilize the advantage of this two different kinds of devices and proposed corresponding switching strategies. The switching loss and current...
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