2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe) 2020
DOI: 10.23919/epe20ecceeurope43536.2020.9215699
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Design of a circumscribing polygon wide bandgap based integrated modular motor drive topology with thermally decoupled windings and power converters

Abstract: In this paper, the design of an integrated modular motor drive topology based on the circumscribing polygon of the outer surface of the conventional cylindrical housing is introduced from the mechanical and the thermal point of view. The design of the shared machine and converter cooling system is optimized from the thermal point of view using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. A wide bandgap, specifically Gallium Nitride (GaN), based half-bridge converter module is designed and implemented for in… Show more

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“…• The switch loss that results in 115 • C junction temperature is computed using the CFD model. • From the switch loss versus temperature model developed in [9], the peak winding current that results in the switch loss in step 1 is calculated.…”
Section: Maximum Thermally Safe Winding and Switchmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…• The switch loss that results in 115 • C junction temperature is computed using the CFD model. • From the switch loss versus temperature model developed in [9], the peak winding current that results in the switch loss in step 1 is calculated.…”
Section: Maximum Thermally Safe Winding and Switchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The most challenging aspects in the design of the integrated motor drives (IMD) are the shared thermal management of the machine and the converter [7], [8] and the small space available for the converter modules [9]. These challenges can be met by utilizing the wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor switches especially, the Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology thanks to its low losses and small package size for the same voltage and current ratings compared to Silicon devices [3], [10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%