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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"power electronics building blocks"”.
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Insulation Design and Analysis for Medium-Voltage SiC-based Power Electronics Building Blocks
… including electric field (E-field) grading near power terminals and PCB edges, cable feedthroughs, and the integration of components, are explored from the perspective of E-field management. A design example of a 3-level dc bus for a 6 kV-1 MW Power Electronics Building Block (PEBB) is presented. …
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Design and Testing of a SiC-based Solid-State Bypass Switch for 1 kV Power Electronics Building Blocks
Over the past two decades, power consumption has increased exponentially worldwide, posing new challenges to power grids to meet the load requirements. With this growing power demand, the need for efficient high-density medium-voltage (MV) power converters has increased to support flexible power …
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Metaheuristic Optimization for Automatic Arrangement of Power Electronics Components in a Shipboard Electrical Distribution System
… novel methodology for the automatic placement of Power Electronics Building Blocks (PEBBs) in modular, integrated power corridor designs. These building blocks, which are created and tested offsite for a variety of applications, are currently placed manually during the design process, a method …
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A Synchronous Distributed Control and Communication Network for High-Frequency SiC-Based Modular Power Converters
Numerous power electronics building blocks (PEBB) based power conversion systems have been developed to explore modular design, scalable voltage and current ratings, low-cost operations, etc. This paper further extends the modular concept from the power stage to the control system. The …
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Experimental Validation of Indirect Liquid Cooling Computational Thermal Modeling
Indirect dry-interface liquid cooling for electronics offers a modular and lightweight approach to thermal management. As part of development for the Navy’s integrated Power and Energy Corridor (NiPEC), multiple computational thermal analyses of this cooling method have been conducted but not yet …
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Thermal Analysis of Indirect Liquid Cooling for the Navy integrated Power Electronics Building Block
The development of the Navy integrated Power and Energy Corridor (NiPEC) involves the deployment of modular, self-contained universal converter units known as the integrated Power Electronics Building Blocks (iPEBB). An iPEBB unit sees primary heat generation through four rows of MOSFET switches …
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A Distributed Digital Control Architecture for Power Electronics Systems
This thesis proposes a novel approach to power electronics system design that is based on the open-architecture distributed digital controller and modular power electronics building blocks (PEBBs). The proposed distributed digital controller partitions the controller in three levels of control …
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The Modeling of Partial Discharge under Fast, Repetitive Voltage Pulses Using Finite-Element Analysis
By 2030, it is expected that 80% of all electric power will flow through power electronics systems. Wide bandgap power modules that can tolerate higher voltages and currents than silicon-based modules are the most promising solution to reducing the size and weight of power electronics systems. …
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Implementation of a 100kW Soft-Switched DC Bus Regulator Based on Power Electronics Building Block Concept
Power electronics building blocks (PEBBs) are standardized building blocks used to integrate power electronics systems. The PEBB approach can achieve low cost, high redundancy, high reliability, high flexibility and easy maintenance for large-scale power electronics systems. This thesis presents …
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Processing and Characterization of Device Solder Interconnection and Module Attachment for Power Electronics Modules
… three-dimensional packaging architecture for power electronics building blocks with soldered device interconnections and subsequent characterization of the module's critical interfaces. A low-cost approach termed metal posts interconnected parallel plate structure (MPIPPS) was developed for …
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Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility within SiC-based Medium Voltage Converters
… capability. Meanwhile, medium voltage (MV) high power converters have been pushed to higher power, higher voltage, and higher power density design requirements in recent years, which makes the EMI management even more difficult. Unlike converter-level noise emissions which can be regulated by …
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Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Distributed Power Electronics System Based on Building Block Concept
The basic Power Electronics Building Block (PEBB) configurations are identified and conceptual PEBB modules are constructed and tested. Using the INCA (Inductance Calculator) parasitic extraction and the Saber circuit simulation software, the microscopic relationships between the parasitics of the …
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Processing and Reliability Assessment of Solder Joint Interconnection for Power Chips
Circuit assembly and packaging technologies for power electronics have not kept pace with those for digital electronics. Inside those packaged power devices as well as the state-of-the-art power modules, interconnection of power chips is accomplished with wirebonds. Wirebonds in power devices and …
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A Synchronous Distributed Digital Control Architecture for High Power Converters
Power electronics applications in high power are normally large, expensive, spatially distributed systems. These systems are typically complex and have multiple functions. Due to these properties, the control algorithm and its implementation are challenging, and a different approach is needed to …