Thermal Management and Reliability of Automotive Power Electronics and Electric Machines

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OSTI ID:1421380

Narumanchi, Sreekant V  ^[1]; Bennion, Kevin S ^[1]; Cousineau, Justine E ^[1]; DeVoto, Douglas J ^[1]; Feng, Xuhui ^[1]; Kekelia, Bidzina ^[1]; Kozak, Joseph P ^[1]; Major, Joshua ^[1]; Moreno, Gilberto ^[1]; Paret, Paul P ^[1]; Tomerlin, Jeff J ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Low-cost, high-performance thermal management technologies are helping meet aggressive power density, specific power, cost, and reliability targets for power electronics and electric machines. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is working closely with numerous industry and research partners to help influence development of components that meet aggressive performance and cost targets through development and characterization of cooling technologies, and thermal characterization and improvements of passive stack materials and interfaces. Thermomechanical reliability and lifetime estimation models are important enablers for industry in cost-and time-effective design.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1421380
• Report Number(s): NREL/PR-5400-70156
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at the 2017 Electronics Packaging Symposium and Workshop, 19-20 September 2017, Niskayuna, New York
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
thermal management
automotive
power electronics
electric machines
reliability