Transients Of Modern Power Electronics

This book will investigate the short-timescale transient phenomena (from microsecond to nanosecond) of power electronic systems, with a focus on high-power converters for hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. The authors will provide guidelines for design that improve system reliability, a crucial issue for high power and high voltage power electronic systems. The book will explore the interrelations among various subsystems with different scales of time constants, and thereby set up a theoretical framework and relevant methodology for the design, modeling and prototyping of modern power electronics converters. Topics to be covered include an introduction to the fundamentals of transients in power electronics; modeling methods for power electronic subsystems; switching processes of semiconductors; dead-band effect and minimum pulse width; modulated error; abnormal pulses and sneak pulse, and concluding with a look to future trends within this field.

Hua Bai, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Dr Hua Bai received B.S. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He joined the University of Michigan-Dearborn in September 2007 as a post-doctoral researcher. His research interests are the short-timescale pulsed power phenomena of power electronic devices in three-level NPC high voltage and high power inverter, and integrated design of high voltage and high power bidirectional DC-DC converters.

Chris Mi, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Dr. Chris Mi is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. Dr. Mi holds a BS and an MS degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, and a Ph.D degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Mi is the recipient of the "National Innovation Award," "Government Special Allowance" given by the Chinese Central Government, the "Distinguished Teaching Award" of University of Michigan Dearborn. He is also a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Region 4 "Outstanding Engineer Award," 2007 "IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section Outstanding Professional Award," and 2007 SAE "Environmental Excellence in Transportation Award." Dr. Mi is the General Chair of IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference 09.

About the authors

Preface

1. Power Electronic Device, Circuit, Topology, and Control
1.1 Power Electronics
1.2 The Evolution of Power Device Technology
1.3 Power Electronic Circuit Topology
1.4 PWM Control
1.5 Typical Power Electronic Converters and Their Applications
1.6 Transient Processes in Power Electronics and Book Organization
References

2. Macroscopic and Microscopic Factors in Power Electronic System
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Microelectronics vs. Power Electronics
2.3 State-of-the-Art Of Research in Short-Timescale Transients
2.4 Typical Influential Factors and Transient Processes
2.5 Methods to Study the Short-Timescale Transients
2.6 Summary
References

3. Power Semiconductor Devices, Integrated Power Circuits, and Their Short Time Scale Transients
3.1 Major Characteristics of Semiconductors
3.2 Modeling Methods of Semiconductors
3.3 IGBT
3.4 IGCT
3.5 Silicon Carbide JFET
3.6 System-Level SOA
3.7 Soft-Switching Control and Its Application in High Power Converters
References

4. Power Electronics in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
4.1 Introduction to Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
4.2 Architecture and Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicles
4.3 Power Electronics In HEVs
4.4 Battery Chargers For EV And PPEV
References

5. Power Electronics in Alternative Energy and Advanced Power Systems
5.1 Typical Alternative Energy Systems
5.2 Transients in Alternative Energy Systems
5.3 Power Electronics, Alternative Energy and Future Micro-Grid Systems
5.4 Dynamic Process in the Multi-Source System
5.5 Specialty of Control and Analyzing Methods in Alternative Energy Systems
5.6 Application of Power Electronics in Electric Power System
References

6. Power Electronics in Battery Management Systems
6.1 Application of Power Electronics in Rechargeable Batteries
6.2 Battery Charge Management
6.3 Cell Balancing
6.4 Safe Operating Area of Battery Power Electronics
References

7. Dead-band Effect and Minimum Pulse Width
7.1 Dead-Band Effect in DC-AC Inverters
7.2 Dead-Band Effect in DC-DC Converter
7.3 Control Strategy for Dead-Band Compensation
7.4 Minimum Pulse Width
7.5 Summary

8. Modulated Error in Power Electronic System
8.1 Modulated Error Between Information Flow and Power Flow
8.2 Modulated Error in Switching Power Semiconductors
8.3 Modulated Error in DC-AC Inverter
8.4 Modulated Error in The DC-DC Converter
8.5 Summary

9. Future Trends

10. Index