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Multilevel Power Converters for Use in Mobility and Transportation Applications

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F3: Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 1287

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Cherif Larouci

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ESTACA, ESTACA-Lab, Energy and Embedded Systems for Transportation Research Department, 78066 Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France
Interests: modeling, design and optimization of power electronics converters under multi-physical constraints (volume/weight, cost, efficiency, thermal, electromagnetic compatibility, reliability, control, etc.); optimization of mechatronic systems and embedded energy management; the main considered applications are electric vehicles, electric and more-electric aircraft, drones and soft mobility systems with electric assistance

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The mobility and transportation domain are currently facing several transitions, such as energy, environmental, digital, societal, etc. These transitions will be increasingly decisive in the future. The electrification of transportation systems supported by appropriate design methodologies and tools is one of the most promising solutions to meet energy and environmental constraints. This electrification increases the electric energy embedded in transportation systems and induces a multiplication of embedded power electronics converters to optimize the management of such energy and guarantee safe operation both in normal mode and in presence of faults.

In this electrification context, the use of multilevel power converters is an interesting leverage. Such converters allow increasing power density and voltage levels, improving EMC performances and reducing the volume and mass of passive components. Moreover, they offer the possibility to supply multiple loads and allow natural redundancy and hardware reconfiguration to ensure continuity of service in case of components failures. However, to promote the use of these power converters in transportation applications, their performances need to be improved and optimized, especially regarding reliability, cost, thermal, efficiency and global volume.

This call focuses on the potential of using multilevel power converters in transportation applications including electric vehicles, more-electric aircraft, electric aircraft, trains, electric boats, etc.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • New transportation applications using multilevel power converters;
  • New multilevel power converters architectures and technologies (SiC, GaN);
  • The design approach of multilevel power converters;
  • Optimization of multilevel power converters under multiphysics constraints;
  • Control of multilevel power converters;
  • On-board energy management.

Dr. Cherif Larouci
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • multilevel power converters
  • electric vehicle
  • electric transportation systems
  • electric mobility
  • energy management
  • embedded power-converter architectures

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Calculation of Losses in a Motor Fed by a Conventional Inverter and a Battery Distributed Inverter
by Rémi Jardot, Guillaume Krebs, Anas Lahlou, Francis Roy and Claude Marchand
Energies 2023, 16(24), 7993; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16247993 - 10 Dec 2023
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 982
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In the past decade, car manufacturers have started electrifying the traction chain of their vehicles. Although these vehicles attract more and more drivers, most of them have a limited range and are prohibitively expensive. Manufacturers must therefore offer high-performance conversion chains (particularly in [...] Read more.
In the past decade, car manufacturers have started electrifying the traction chain of their vehicles. Although these vehicles attract more and more drivers, most of them have a limited range and are prohibitively expensive. Manufacturers must therefore offer high-performance conversion chains (particularly in terms of efficiency) while controlling costs. The power converter is a particularly crucial element of the conversion chains: it supplies the traction motor, and its structure and the way it is controlled can greatly influence the overall efficiency of the drive train. This paper studies two conversion structures that can be used as vehicle power converters, which are modeled and associated with an electric machine. The first is a classical three-phase inverter, and the second is a breakthrough architecture called IBIS (Intelligent Battery Integrated System). This battery integrates the conversion function directly into the battery, which reduces material costs. Two loss phenomena are also studied and modeled (with the help of finite element methods): iron losses in the electrical machine (magnetic losses in the ferromagnetic material used) and copper losses in the conductors (AC and DC losses in the conductors). The impact of the architecture is evaluated on a set of operating points from a road cycle standardized by the WLTP procedure. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multilevel Power Converters for Use in Mobility and Transportation Applications)
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