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Electric Power Systems And Components For Electric Aircraft, Damien Lawhorn
Electric Power Systems And Components For Electric Aircraft, Damien Lawhorn
Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electric aircraft have gained increasing attention in recent years due to their potential for environmental and economic benefits over conventional airplanes. In order to offer competitive flight times and payload capabilities, electric aircraft power systems (EAPS) must exhibit extremely high efficiencies and power densities. While advancements in enabling technologies have progressed the development of high performance EAPS, further research is required.
One challenge in the design of EAPS is determining the best topology to be employed. This work proposes a new graph theory based method for the optimal design of EAPS. This method takes into account data surveyed from a …
Special Power Electronics Converters And Machine Drives With Wide Band-Gap Devices, Yibin Zhang
Special Power Electronics Converters And Machine Drives With Wide Band-Gap Devices, Yibin Zhang
Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering
Power electronic converters play a key role in power generation, storage, and consumption. The major portion of power losses in the converters is dissipated in the semiconductor switching devices. In recent years, new power semiconductors based on wide band-gap (WBG) devices have been increasingly developed and employed in terms of promising merits including the lower on-state resistance, lower turn-on/off energy, higher capable switching frequency, higher temperature tolerance than conventional Si devices. However, WBG devices also brought new challenges including lower fault tolerance, higher system cost, gate driver challenges, and high dv/dt and resulting increased bearing current in electric machines.
This …
Development Of A Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Propulsion System Based On Silicon Carbide Triple Active Bridge Multiport Power Converter, Cole M. Ivey
Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering
Constrained by the low energy density of Lithium-ion batteries with all-electric aircraft propulsion, hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion drive becomes one of the most promising technologies in aviation electrification, especially for wide-body airplanes. In this thesis, a three-port triple active bridge (TAB) DC-DC converter is developed to manage the power flow between the turbo generator, battery, and the propulsion motor. The TAB converter is modeled based on the emerging Silicon Carbide (SiC) Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) modules operating at high switching frequency, so the size of the magnetic transformer can be significantly reduced. Different operation modes of this hybrid-electric propulsion drive …