Minimizing Losses Induced by Parasitic Winding Capacitance in Electric Drives by Means of Soft-Switching GaN-Based ARCP

Thiago Pereira, Marco Liserre, Klaus Krischan, Annette Muetze

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Abstract

Partial load operation efficiency of motor drives has attracted increased attention for various applications. The charging and discharging of the parasitic winding capacitances significantly contribute to the inverter switching losses and thus to the losses at partial load. This paper studies the reduction of these losses by use of Auxiliary Resonant Commutated Pole (ARCP) as a soft switching half bridge topology, based on high performance GaN devices. The switching losses of soft and hard switching half bridges are compared experimentally. For hard switching, theoretical results in line with experimental ones are shown, as well. The experimental results show that the switching losses caused by the parasitic winding capacitance can be decreased to 10 %.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationECCE 2020 - IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
PublisherIEEE Xplore
Pages3704-3711
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781728158266
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Oct 2020
Event12th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition: ECCE 2020 - Detroit, Virtual, United States
Duration: 11 Oct 202015 Oct 2020
https://www.ieee-ecce.org/2022/

Conference

Conference12th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
Abbreviated titleECCE 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDetroit, Virtual
Period11/10/2015/10/20
Internet address

Keywords

  • Auxiliary Resonant Commutated Pole Inverter
  • electric drive
  • GaN HEMT
  • soft switching
  • parasitic capacitance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Control and Optimization
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Fields of Expertise

  • Sustainable Systems

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