A Hybrid Switching Inverter for High -Efficiency Traction Motor Drives
Journal: International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) (Vol.5, No. 5)Publication Date: 2016-05-05
Authors : Juluri Shiva Prasad; Narra Narender Reddy;
Page : 222-226
Keywords : High efficiency; Electric vehicles; hybrid switch; motor drives; soft-switching inverter;
Abstract
This paper presents a hybrid switch which parallels a power MOSFET and an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) as the main switch of a zero-voltage switching (ZVS) inverter. In this combination MOSFET is conducting in the low-current region and the IGBT conducting in the high-current region, and the soft switching avoids the reverse recovery problem during the device turn-on. A custom hybrid switch module has been developed for a variable-timing-controlled coupled-magnetic-type ZVS inverter with a nominal input voltage of 325 V and the continuous output power of 30 kW for a traction motor drive. The results of the hybrid-switch-based inverter with the total loss shows that the inverter achieves 99 % efficiency at the nominal condition and demonstrate ultrahigh-efficiency operation over a wide load range. At 375-V input, the maximum measured efficiency through temperature projection and loss separation analysis is 99.3 %.
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