Feasibility study of a 55-kW air-cooled automotive inverter

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2246-2253

  Chinthavali, Madhu ^a   Christopher, Jacob F ^b   Arimilli, Rao V ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW-RATE; AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; DEVICE TEMPERATURE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEDERAL TEST PROCEDURES; INLET AIR; INVERTER CURRENT; MULTIPLE CURRENTS; POWER INPUT; POWER INVERTERS; SIC DEVICES; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; TRACTION DRIVE; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

COOLING SYSTEMS; EXHIBITIONS; FLOW RATE; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; TESTING;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84860113830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2012.6166135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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