Introducing a silicon carbide inverter for hybrid electric vehicles

Antonopoulos, A; Bangtsson, H; Alakula, M; Manias, S

dc.contributor.author	Antonopoulos, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Bangtsson, H	en
dc.contributor.author	Alakula, M	en
dc.contributor.author	Manias, S	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:45:31Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:45:31Z
dc.date.issued	2008	en
dc.identifier.issn	02759306	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/32288
dc.subject	Hybrid Electric Vehicle	en
dc.subject	Hybrid Vehicle	en
dc.subject	Internal Combustion Engine	en
dc.subject	Power Converter	en
dc.subject	Power Density	en
dc.subject	Power Flow	en
dc.subject	Power Semiconductor Devices	en
dc.subject	Silicon Carbide	en
dc.subject	General Motors	en
dc.subject.other	Automobile cooling systems	en
dc.subject.other	Automobile electronic equipment	en
dc.subject.other	Automobile engines	en
dc.subject.other	Automobiles	en
dc.subject.other	Combustion	en
dc.subject.other	Control theory	en
dc.subject.other	Cooling	en
dc.subject.other	Crystals	en
dc.subject.other	Electric automobiles	en
dc.subject.other	Electric conductivity	en
dc.subject.other	Electric vehicles	en
dc.subject.other	Fuzzy control	en
dc.subject.other	Internal combustion engines	en
dc.subject.other	Nonmetals	en
dc.subject.other	Power electronics	en
dc.subject.other	Secondary batteries	en
dc.subject.other	Semiconducting silicon compounds	en
dc.subject.other	Semiconductor device manufacture	en
dc.subject.other	Semiconductor device models	en
dc.subject.other	Semiconductor devices	en
dc.subject.other	Semiconductor materials	en
dc.subject.other	Silicon	en
dc.subject.other	Silicon carbide	en
dc.subject.other	Smoke	en
dc.subject.other	Standards	en
dc.subject.other	Thermochemistry	en
dc.subject.other	Vehicles	en
dc.subject.other	Applications.	en
dc.subject.other	Combustion engines	en
dc.subject.other	Driving cycles	en
dc.subject.other	General Motors	en
dc.subject.other	Higher temperatures	en
dc.subject.other	Hybrid electric vehicles	en
dc.subject.other	Hybrid vehicles	en
dc.subject.other	Hybrid-electric vehicle	en
dc.subject.other	Innovative technologies	en
dc.subject.other	Mild hybrid	en
dc.subject.other	Power densities	en
dc.subject.other	Power Flow	en
dc.subject.other	Power semiconductor devices	en
dc.subject.other	Silicon carbide (SiC)	en
dc.subject.other	Automobile parts and equipment	en
dc.title	Introducing a silicon carbide inverter for hybrid electric vehicles	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1109/PESC.2008.4592116	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PESC.2008.4592116	en
heal.identifier.secondary	4592116	en
heal.publicationDate	2008	en
heal.abstract	This paper presents a power converter that can be used in hybrid electric vehicle applications. The unique characteristic of this converter is that it is based on Silicon Carbide (SiC) semiconductors. It is intended for a Belt driven Alternator and Starter (BAS), a design suggested by General Motors, in a mild hybrid car. SiC is an innovative technology that seems to have many advantages compared to the silicon that is commonly used today. It is believed that it is going to replace silicon in many applications. The idea to use SiC for a Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) application was born when trying to reduce the size, weight and cost and therefore increase the power density of vehicle's electronics. The proposed design focuses on the different functions of a BAS and the converter's behavior in each case. A hybrid vehicle is simulated, functioning accordingly to the BAS design and the power flow over the power semiconductor devices is calculated. The aim of this work is to estimate the converter's losses over a standard driving cycle and decide if it is possible then to use the combustion engine's cooling system to cool the semiconductors as well, something obviously impossible when working with silicon semiconductors, as an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) operates in higher temperatures than silicon can stand. ©2008 IEEE.	en
heal.journalName	PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/PESC.2008.4592116	en
dc.identifier.spage	1321	en
dc.identifier.epage	1325	en