Design and Development of a 50kW Z-Source Inverter for Fuel Cell Vehicles

Author

Shen, Miaosen ; Joseph, Alan ; Huang, Yi ; Peng, Fang Z. ; Qian, Zhaoming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

14-16 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A detailed design process of the Z-source inverter is presented in this paper. A DC rail clamp circuit is used to reduce the overshoot of the device during turn off. The thermal and 3-D design process is gone through, and the loss calculation of the inverter is discussed, which is different from traditional PWM inverters. A 50 kW inverter for fuel cell vehicle is developed to demonstrate the validity of the design process. Experimental results confirmed the design process and demonstrated the high efficiency characteristic of the Z-source inverter

Keywords

fuel cell vehicles; invertors; losses; thermal analysis; 50 kW; DC rail clamp circuit; Z-source inverter; fuel cell vehicles; overshoot reduction; thermal design; Circuit testing; Costs; Fuel cell vehicles; Fuel cells; Polarization; Process design; Pulse width modulation inverters; Traction motors; Virtual colonoscopy; Voltage; Fuel cell vehicle; Z-source inverter; boost;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2006. IPEMC 2006. CES/IEEE 5th International

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0448-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPEMC.2006.4778156

Filename

4778156