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High frequency is an effective method to improve transmission efficiency of inductively coupled power transfer (ICPT) system. However, it is hard for the high capacity semiconductor device to meet the high frequency need. In this paper, a novel multiple-frequency inductively power transfer system is proposed. By adopting a novel multiple-frequency topology of inverter, the transfer frequency of the...
A hybrid switch configured by silicon insulated gate bipolar transistor (Si IGBT) and silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (SiC MOSFET) have been investigated to be a cost effectiveness and high efficiency. In this paper, we aimed reducing the hybrid switch loss and expanding operation area of frequency and current. We measured dependency on various parameters to analyze...
Interleaved switching of parallel inverters has previously been proposed for efficiency/size improvements of grid connected three-phase inverters. This paper proposes a novel interleaving method which practically eliminates insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) turn-on losses and drastically reduces diode reverse recovery losses. The reduction in switching losses are obtained by interleaving two...
Supplying 25 kV, 50 Hz railway systems is a challenging task due to the load characteristics of those systems. Hence, several approaches are developed to improve their grid integration with the static frequency converter based substations. However, this supply system can be further refined by the application of a dc grid. Hence, this paper presents and discusses one possible approach to enhance the...
At present, the SiC devices have been widely concerned with the excellent characteristics of low switching losses, which can significantly improve the frequency of power electronic converters, and also have broad application prospects in the field of rail transportation. In this paper, through the establishment of 1500V powered subway auxiliary inverter loss model, the author estimated loss and efficiency...
An increasing number of electrical motors are driven from frequency inverters. The losses in motor are increased because the produced nonsinusoidal stator voltages, supplied from IGBTs, contain significant harmonic components. Different PWM Methods cause different voltage harmonics. Depending on the control method, the motor characteristics and the partial load, the efficiency of the motor inverter...
In this paper, the conventional three-level diode-neutral-point-clamping (3L-DNPC) inverter is deeply investigated from the view of power loss. It is concluded that the conventional 3L-DNPC inverter has high zero-vector conduction loss due to clamping Diode+ IGBT structure's high on-state voltage, high clamping diode reverse recovery loss and so on. Therefore, the clamping diodes are most deeply related...
There is currently an ongoing effort to promote the installation of low power, residential and commercial, DC microgrids, which allow the incorporation of renewable energy sources (RES) into local generation systems. Since it is intended that RES generate as much energy as possible, and often this energy is not consumed locally, a common practice is to inject the surplus energy into the grid to ensure...
In this study, a mode transition scheme between a single phase half bridge 2-level voltage source converter (VSC) and a 3-level T-type VSC is proposed. The efficiency of 3-level T-type VSC can be increased by the mode transition scheme. The mode transition scheme select the efficient operation method between a 2-level and 3-level VSC. The 2-level VSC or 3-level VSC operation method are selected depending...
The impact of GaN devices and the improvement in efficiency while using such devices in three-phase traction inverter for Electric Vehicles are presented in this paper. Two versions of inverters have been illustrated: first one with Si-IGBT devices while second one is built with GaN-MOSFETs with similar rating of voltage and current. The loss model is expounded for both the inverters; thereafter total...
Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET power module has become commercially available in the past few years, and it is attractive in solid state transformers (SSTs) applications to replace Silicon (Si)-based IGBTs. This paper is focused on the efficiency comparison between a SiC MOSFET-based three-port active bridge converter (TAB) and a Si IGBT-based approach. The efficiency of the overall system, being one...
In this paper, a comparative performance of a newly proposed standalone solar PV (Photo-Voltaic) power generating system is presented along with a conventional PV generating system. The new PV generating system is using isolated dc-dc Cuk converter which consists of a high frequency transformer and a conventional PV system consists of a line frequency transformer. Both these configurations are compared...
For drive train efficiency estimation, three-level inverters are analyzed regarding different modulation techniques and switching frequencies. In this paper an optimized operating mode selector is proposed to choose a loss optimal modulation technique and switching frequency for each operating point. Energy savings due to the operating mode selector are validated on a driving cycle.
This paper compares the efficiency of AC and DC microgrids from a new perspective. It studies the effect of adding a battery energy storage on a microgrid efficiency. A new designed Finnish-townhouse building is applied to model the power flow and converter types. Losses related to wirings, converters and dis/charging of the energy storage are calculated in a minute resolution to enhance the accuracy...
A holistic approach to determine the optimum number of phases m of an m-phase motor in combination with an m-leg inverter for electric vehicle applications is presented. The optimum offers a significant improvement of the torque and power by approximately 9.6% over the whole operating range in comparison to a 3-phase motor and therefore enhances the power and torque density without expanding the design...
Efficient HV DC-DC converters are one key component of a future HVDC backbone grid. In this paper three promising MMC based HV DC-DC converter topologies, namely the front-to-front converter, the HVDC auto transformer and the modular multilevel DC converter are compared in terms of functionality, conversion efficiency and topology effort.
An advanced gate drive unit for 1.2 kV IGBT modules has been developed. It includes two main features: limitation of the collector-emitter voltage slope and of the collector-emitter peak voltage. This is achieved through a feedback loop with a capacitive/resistive voltage divider coupled to the gate-emitter voltage of the IGBT. For the studied case a reduction of the switching losses of around 25%...
This paper investigates the switching performance of six-pack SiC MOSFET and Si IGBT modules for motor drive applications. Both the modules have same packaging and voltage rating (1.2 kV). The three bridge legs of the modules are paralleled forming a single half-bridge configuration for achieving higher output power. Turn-on and turn-off switching energy losses are measured using a standard double...
This paper describes 1700V IGBT module with the 7th generation (7G) IGBT technologies. By further improvement of the chip characteristics and the development of new high reliability package materials and technologies, the performance of the modules are significantly improved. In addition, an extra thermal performance of lower thermal impedance is achieved with successful implementation of novel enhanced...
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