Performance Comparison Study of SiC and Si Technology for an IPM Drive System

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2010

OSTI ID:1027813

Chinthavali, Madhu Sudhan ^[1]; Otaduy, Pedro J ^[1]; Ozpineci, Burak ^[1]

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1. ORNL

The impact of the new SiC material based devices on a full system needs to be evaluated in order to assess the benefits of replacing Silicon (Si) devices with WBG devices. In this paper the results obtained with a full-system model simulated for an aggressive US06 drive cycle are presented. The system model includes a motor/generator model and inverter loss model developed using actual measured data. The results provide an insight to the difference in performance of a permanent magnet traction drive system using SiC versus Si devices.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). National Transportation Research Center (NTRC)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1027813
• Resource Relation: Conference: 13th International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2009), Nuremberg, Germany, 20091011, 20091016
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
INVERTERS
PERFORMANCE
PERMANENT MAGNETS
SILICON
SILICON CARBIDES
Silicon carbide
IPM drive