TY - CHAP A1 - Hopkins, Andrew A1 - Hopfensperger, Bernhard A1 - Mellor, Phil T1 - DC-link Capacitor Reduction in Low Voltage and High Power Integrated Modular Motor Drives T2 - 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 29 Sept.-3 Oct. 2019, Baltimore, MD, USA N2 - The development of 48V high power (>15 kW) automotive propulsion drives demands close integration of the power electronics and the electrical machine. Due to the large operating currents distributed multi-phase topologies are needed and physically separating the power converter from the e-machine would involve heavy cabling and costly connections. The volume and cost of the filter capacitor represents a major challenge in closely integrated high power integrated modular motor drives and techniques are needed to minimize this. The DC-link capacitor requires a large ripple current handling capability and cost, size and reliability limitations result in suitable candidate technologies being those with low volumetric energy densities. Use of interleaved multi three-phase machines are attractive due to the associated capacitor ripple current reduction. Discontinuous modulation schemes may also be employed as a technique for reducing the current ripple. In this paper techniques for capacitor ripple reduction are assessed through simulation and compared. KW - Capacitors KW - carrier phase shift KW - DC-link capacitor KW - dual 3-phase inverter KW - integrated modular motor drive KW - Interleaving KW - Inverters KW - Low voltage KW - Motor drives KW - Pulse width modulation KW - ripple current reduction KW - winding displacement KW - Windings Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2019.8913213 SP - 3208 EP - 3214 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hopfensperger, Bernhard A1 - Daubner, Andreas A1 - Herrmann, Fabian A1 - Hopkins, Andrew A1 - Mellor, Phil T1 - Investigation of Shifted PWM Methods for a Dual Three-Phase System to Reduce Capacitor RMS Current T2 - PCIM Europe Digital Days 2020: International Exhibition and Conference for Power Electronics, Intelligent Motion, Renewable Energy and Energy Management: 07.-08.07.2020, Online [proceedings] N2 - Mild hybrid automotive topologies containing a 48V high power (>15 kW) electric drive system demand a high integration of power electronics and electrical machine. A multi-phase motor winding topology helps to keep the per-phase operating currents to a reasonable level. Close integration and multi-phase system have led to a drive system with dual 3-phase systems supplied by a common 48V DC-link, which allows to shift PWM patterns for reduction of DC-link capacitor ripple current and size. This paper derives some basic rules for combinations of common PWM methods for dual 3-phase systems without magnetic cross-coupling. Experimental measurements verify simulated results. KW - Elektroantrieb KW - dual three phase system Y1 - 2020 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9177989 SN - 978-3-8007-5245-4 SP - 124 EP - 131 PB - VDE-Verlag CY - Berlin, Offenbach ER -