Efficiency evaluation of a 55kW soft-switching module based inverter for high temperature hybrid electric vehicle drives application

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 474-479

  Sun, Pengwei ^a   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a   Qian, Hao ^a   Yu, Wensong ^a   Smith, Chris ^b   Bates, John ^b   Arnet, Beat ^b   Litvinov, Alexander ^c   Leslie, Scott ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Azure Dynamics   (United States)

^c POWEREX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION LOSS; COOLANT TEMPERATURE; DIFFERENTIAL CALORIMETERS; DOUBLE CHAMBERS; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITION; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE; INDUCTIVE LOADS; INVERTER EFFICIENCY; PEAK EFFICIENCY; POWER METERS; SOFT-SWITCHING INVERTERS; SWITCHING LOSS; TEST CONDITION;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; FUZZY CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SOFT SWITCHING; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC DRIVES;

EID: 77952218755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2010.5433627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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