Long-term reliability of railway power inverters cooled by heat-pipe-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2662-2672

  Perpina, Xavier ^a   Jorda, Xavier ^a   Vellvehi, Miquel ^a   Rebollo, Jose ^a   Mermet Guyennet, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ALSTOM   (France)

Author keywords

Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) power module; power inverter reliability; railway applications; thermal mapping

Indexed keywords

CYCLING TESTS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; INSULATED-GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR (IGBT) POWER MODULE; MISSION PROFILE; POWER INVERTERS; POWER MODULE; POWER-INVERTER RELIABILITY; RAILWAY APPLICATIONS; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL CYCLE; THERMAL MAPPING;

ACTIVE FILTERS; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HEAT PIPES; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); RAILROADS; THERMAL CYCLING;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 79959289557     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2087298     Document Type: Article

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