Characterization and Implementation of Resonant Isolated DC/DC Converters for Future MVdc Railway Electrification Systems

Autor: Didier Flumian, Sebastien Sanchez, Andrea Verdicchio, Herve Caron, Joseph Fabre, Philippe Ladoux, Jean-Marc Blaquiere
Přispěvatelé: LAboratoire PLasma et Conversion d'Energie (LAPLACE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, SNCF Réseau [La Plaine st Denis], Convertisseurs Statiques (LAPLACE-CS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), SNCF : Innovation & Recherche, SNCF, Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers (ICAM)
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
multilevel converters
Computer science
Substations
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Transportation
Capacitors
Silicon carbide
02 engineering and technology
traction power supplies
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
law.invention
Rail transportation
[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics]
chemistry.chemical_compound
DC / DC converters
Electrification
law
0103 physical sciences
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

opposition method test bench
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Power MOSFET
Switching frequency
010302 applied physics
power MOSFET
business.industry
[SPI.NRJ]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electric power
020208 electrical & electronic engineering
Direct current
Electrical engineering
Converters
Capacitor
chemistry
railway electrification
Power module
Automotive Engineering
business
Switches
Voltage
Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 7 (2), pp.854-869. ⟨10.1109/TTE.2020.3033659⟩
ISSN: 2372-2088
2577-4212
2332-7782
DOI: 10.1109/tte.2020.3033659
Popis: International audience; Today, in Electric Railways, the old DC supply systems are reaching their limits. To improve their efficiency and increase railroad traffic, a new DC Electrification has recently been proposed at 9-kV. It is now necessary to prepare the migration of infrastructure and rolling stock, using Power-Electronic-Transformers (PETs), for adaptation to this voltage level. For this application, high efficiency and reduced volume are essential. This paper clearly demonstrates that it is now possible to achieve compact, high-power, isolated DC-DC converters using 3.3-kV SiC-MOSFET power modules with high efficiency. After a preliminary study based on simulations, the paper focuses on characterization and implementation of elementary isolated DC-DC converters. The proposed topology is a series-resonant converter rated for a nominal power of 300-kW at 1.8-kV. First, laboratory testing using an “opposition-method” is used to evaluate the elementary converters up to their nominal power using both electrical and thermal measurements to accurately determine losses and efficiency. At the nominal output power, an efficiency of 98.93% is obtained. This is quite remarkable for an isolated DC-DC converter operating under 1.8-kV with a switching frequency of 15-kHz. Finally, two elementary isolated DC/DC converters are associated in ISOP configuration (Input Seriesed/Output Paralleled) in order to achieve a 3-kV/1.5-kV PET with a nominal power of 600-kW as a prelude to the final 9-kV/1.5-kV power conversion.
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