Accurate modelling of traction inverter losses for efficiency calculation in parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Author

Nikzad, Mohammad Reza ; Radan, Ahmad

Author_Institution

Power Electron. Lab., K.N. Toosi Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

In this paper a precise and simple methodology will be introduced for modeling and calculating the voltage source inverter (VSI) losses in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) application. The noteworthy traction inverter losses, consisting switching and conduction losses of diodes and IGBTs, are important for evaluating the overall efficiency and obtaining the optimized value of its dc-link voltage as well. For this purpose, the effects of different battery voltage levels on the inverter losses are examined.

Keywords

hybrid electric vehicles; insulated gate bipolar transistors; invertors; secondary cells; traction; IGBT; battery voltage levels; conduction loss; dc-link voltage; parallel hybrid electric vehicles; switching loss; traction inverter loss; voltage source inverter loss; Batteries; Data mining; Diodes; Hybrid electric vehicles; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Power electronics; Switches; Switching loss; Voltage; Efficiency; Hybrid electric vehicle (HEV); Power converters for HEV; Voltage Source Inverters (VSI);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2009. EPE '09. 13th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4432-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-90-75815-13-9

Type

conf

Filename

5278731