NDLI: Reducing expenditure with cooling in renewable power conversion systems with innovative SiC switches

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Araujo, S. Zacharias, P.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Lately, strong focus has been given to cost reduction of renewable power conversion systems in order to enhance their competitiveness. The expenditure with cooling represents a significant factor not only on the construction costs (enclosure) but also on additional energy consumption during the equipment lifetime. SiC switches have several outstanding properties that may enable significant savings, firstly by means of reducing the overall losses given its outstanding static and dynamic properties. In addition to this, SiC-based devices can withstand much higher temperature levels enabling smaller heatsinks, with 400 deg C being widely demonstrated in several publications and up to 600 deg C theoretically expected. It is nevertheless possible to identify several limiting issues in the path of such high temperature levels either, not only at device but also on circuit periphery level, as will be discussed in this publication.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	559420
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9783800734146
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-03-06
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	VDE VERLAG GmbH
Subject Keyword	Temperature dependence Temperature Silicon carbide Cooling Thermal resistance Junctions
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Reducing expenditure with cooling in renewable power conversion systems with innovative SiC switches