How Good are the Design Tools in Power Electronics?
A 100 kW, isolated dc–dc converter was built over the course of one year, starting from a blank page. This paper details the design and manufacturing process.
Impact of DC fault blocking capability on the sizing of the DC-DC Modular Multilevel Converter
This paper analyzes the impact on the converter design of including such characteristic for the DC-DC Modular Multilevel Converter.
Polynomial multi-variable control strategy for Flux Balancing in Dual Active Bridge Converter
A novel model and a multi-variable linear control for power and magnetizing average currents are proposed
Experimental EMI study of a 3-phase 100kW 1200V Dual Active Bridge Converter using SiC MOSFETs
In this prototype, achieving full operation was prevented by false triggering of semiconductors due to large common-mode current through gate drivers.
Figures-of-Merit and current metric for the comparison of IGCTs and IGBTs in Modular Multilevel Converters
Simulation results of a MMC model and figures of merit are shown to provide consistent result, proving that the proposed figures of merit are a very simple and fast way to select the best semiconductor switch.
Unidirectional thyristor-based DC-DC converter for HVDC connection of offshore wind farms
This paper introduces a unidirectional MVDC-HVDC converter for ‘all DC’ connected offshore wind farms.
Experimental study of the self-disturbance phenomena in a halfbridge configuration of Si IGBT and SiC MOSFET switches
This paper investigates the gate-driver design challenges encountered due to the fast switching of wide band-gap semiconductors (here, SiC MOSFETs) in the half-bridge configuration.
Conducted EMI reduction in a 100kW 1.2kV Dual Active Bridge converter
The experimental studies show the effects of the transformer construction and vector group (star/delta) on the common-mode currents through the gate drivers of SiC MOSFETs in a 100kW 1.2kV three-phase dual active bridge converter.
Effective Permeability of Multi Air Gap Ferrite Core 3-Phase Medium Frequency Transformer in Isolated DC-DC Converters
This article presents the measurements of the equivalent B(H) and the equivalent magnetic permeability of two three-phase MFT prototypes.
Phd Majed Eddine MOUSTAID “Experimental development of a thermosiphon loop for thermal regulation of power electronic devices”
The work of this thesis focuses on the experimental development of a passive and biphasic cooling system to cool down power electronics. Some of those modules are mean voltage power converters developed by Supergrid Institute. Some constraints have been imposed upstream to this project. While some limitations are of the technological nature, other constraints are related mainly to the environmental and biological aspects. The first part of this thesis was to find a suitable cooling system that could be adapted to the project specifications. After some research, we decided to build a loop thermosiphon filled with NOVEC 649.
