Advanced application of power-MOSFET to large capacity converter

Author

Matsukawa, Tatsuya ; Shimada, Katsuhiro ; Shioyama, Masanori ; Nomura, Junichi ; Takaku, Taku ; Tsuji-Iio, Shunji ; Shimada, Ryuichi

Author_Institution

Res. Lab. for Nucl. Reactors, Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1170

Abstract

Advanced application of power-MOSFET to a large capacity novel converter system is studied. Parallel operation of many power-MOSFET elements is investigated in room and liquid nitrogen temperatures. The total on-state resistance shows lowered value in parallel connected and cooled down conditions, and the reduced resistance is effective for operational loss reduction of the converter circuit. The bi-directional switching unit with four power-MOSFET elements is proposed, which can be applied to the self commutated type AC/DC converter. Another type of AC/DC converter using power-MOSFET consists of a three phase synchronous rectifier circuit, which is suitable to output one directional high DC current

Keywords

AC-DC power convertors; commutation; power MOSFET; power convertors; rectifying circuits; switching circuits; bi-directional switching unit; cooled down conditions; directional high DC current; large capacity converter; liquid nitrogen temperature; on-state resistance; parallel connected conditions; power-MOSFET; reduced resistance; room temperature; self commutated AC/DC converter; three phase synchronous rectifier circuit; Bidirectional control; DC-DC power converters; Diodes; Electric resistance; Immune system; MOSFET circuits; Nitrogen; Rectifiers; Temperature; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Conversion Conference, 2002. PCC-Osaka 2002. Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Osaka

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7156-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCC.2002.998138

Filename

998138