High-Frequency Switching Transients and Power Loss Estimation in Electric Drive Systems that Utilize Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors
Abstract
Development of electric drive systems for transportation and industrial applications is rapidly seeing the use of wide-bandgap (WBG) based power semiconductor devices. These devices, such as SiC MOSFETs, enable high switching frequencies and are becoming the preferred choice in inverters because of their lower switching losses and higher allowable operating temperatures. Due to the much shorter turn-on and turn-off times and correspondingly larger output voltage edge rates, traditional models and methods previously used to estimate inverter and motor power losses, based upon a triangular power loss waveform, are no longer justifiable from a physical perspective. In this thesis, more appropriate models and a power loss calculation approach are described with the goal of more accurately estimating the power losses in WBG-based electric drive systems. Sine-triangle modulation with third harmonic injection is used to control the switching of the inverter. The motor and inverter models are implemented using Simulink and computer studies are shown illustrating the application of the new approach.
Degree
M.S.E.C.E.
Advisors
Wasynczuk, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Electrical engineering|Energy
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