Professor PATRICK WHEELER's Outputs (285)

Wide Bandgap Voltage Source Inverter Design for Automotive Electric Drivetrain (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savi, F., Buticchi, G., Gerada, C., Wheeler, P., & Barater, D. (2018, November). Wide Bandgap Voltage Source Inverter Design for Automotive Electric Drivetrain. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles and International Transportation Electrification Conference, ESARS-ITEC 2018, Nottingham, UK

In this paper a high power, high frequency voltage source inverter for automotive traction application is reviewed. The main objectives of the design process is the maximization of power density, while keeping high efficiency and low weight. In this... Read More about Wide Bandgap Voltage Source Inverter Design for Automotive Electric Drivetrain.

Three-Phase Rectifiers with Current Compensation Schemes - Part I: Passive Circuits (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., Riveros, J. A., & Toledo, S. (2018, November). Three-Phase Rectifiers with Current Compensation Schemes - Part I: Passive Circuits. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles and International Transportation Electrification Conference, ESARS-ITEC 2018, Nottingham, UK

Three-phase rectifiers are widely used in several applications. The main feature desired in these power converters is a satisfying regulation of dc output voltage/current, but this ought to be achieved with high quality ac currents and unitary power... Read More about Three-Phase Rectifiers with Current Compensation Schemes - Part I: Passive Circuits.

Three-Phase Rectifiers with Current Compensation Schemes - Part II: Active and Hybrid Configurations (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., Riveros, J. A., & Toledo, S. (2018, November). Three-Phase Rectifiers with Current Compensation Schemes - Part II: Active and Hybrid Configurations. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles and International Transportation Electrification Conference, ESARS-ITEC 2018, Nottingham, UK

The current injection schemes for unidirectional three-phase diode bridge rectifiers are widely utilised in industrial and aerospace applications. The additional circuitry in combination with modern control strategies mitigate the effects of the conv... Read More about Three-Phase Rectifiers with Current Compensation Schemes - Part II: Active and Hybrid Configurations.

New Asymmetric Cascaded Multi-level Converter with Reduced Components (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hosseinzadeh, M. A., Sarbanzadeh, M., Sarbanzadeh, E., Rivera, M., & Wheeler, P. (2018, November). New Asymmetric Cascaded Multi-level Converter with Reduced Components. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles and International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC 2018), Nottingham, UK

Multi-level converters have been used in several industrial applications. The following work seeks to present a novel power inverter structure featuring a low amount of devices for a multi-level converter with an asymmetric cascaded connection. The s... Read More about New Asymmetric Cascaded Multi-level Converter with Reduced Components.

Predictive Control for MPPT in a Single-Stage Photovoltaic System (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Munoz, C., Rivera, M., Villalon, A., Riveros, J., Munoz, J., & Wheeler, P. (2018, November). Predictive Control for MPPT in a Single-Stage Photovoltaic System. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC 2018), Nottingham, UK

Predictive control has risen as a plausible option in the control of power converters for photovoltaic utilisation. In this work, a predictive control scheme is proposed to obtain the maximum power point in a photovoltaic array coupled directly to a... Read More about Predictive Control for MPPT in a Single-Stage Photovoltaic System.

Design, Assembly and Startup of a Single-Phase Multi-Modular Matrix Converter for Grid Interconnection (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rivera, M., Castro, G., & Wheeler, P. (2018, October). Design, Assembly and Startup of a Single-Phase Multi-Modular Matrix Converter for Grid Interconnection. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIII Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA), Concepcion, Chile

Power converters play a fundamental role in grid interconnection systems. In this article we present the design, assembly and start-up of a multimodular converter. The different stages and design components of the system are detailed. The main idea o... Read More about Design, Assembly and Startup of a Single-Phase Multi-Modular Matrix Converter for Grid Interconnection.

A New Topology of AC-AC Ground Power Unit for Aeronautical Applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., & Wheeler, P. (2018, October). A New Topology of AC-AC Ground Power Unit for Aeronautical Applications. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIII Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA), Concepcion, Chile

Nowadays, electrical energy is the alternative to supply aircraft systems. In this paper a new converter for ground power units supply in aircraft applications is proposed. The topology consists in a rectifier with an active current injection circuit... Read More about A New Topology of AC-AC Ground Power Unit for Aeronautical Applications.

Neutral Point Voltage Control Method for Three-Level Diode-Clamped Converter Based on Fourth Harmonic Current Injection (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, C., Yang, T., Bozhko, S., & Wheeler, P. (2018, September). Neutral Point Voltage Control Method for Three-Level Diode-Clamped Converter Based on Fourth Harmonic Current Injection. Presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2018), Portland, Oregon, USA

DC-link neutral point voltage balancing for three level neutral point clamped converters has been extensively investigated. Many effective methods have been reported with desirable performances under high power factor conditions. However, most of the... Read More about Neutral Point Voltage Control Method for Three-Level Diode-Clamped Converter Based on Fourth Harmonic Current Injection.

A novel immense configurations of boost converter for renewable energy application (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maroti, P. K., Padmanaban, S., Blaabjerg, F., Ionel, D., & Wheeler, P. (2018, September). A novel immense configurations of boost converter for renewable energy application. Presented at RPG 2018 - 7th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation

A three immense configurations of boost converter for renewable energy application is presented in the paper. The Voltage Lift Switched Inductor (VLSI) structure is pledge to extra high voltage conversion. The proposed work represent the modified hig... Read More about A novel immense configurations of boost converter for renewable energy application.

Study of a Silicon Carbide MOSFET Power Module to Establish the Benefits of Adding Anti-parallel Schottky Diodes (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Trentin, A., Hind, D., Degano, M., Tighe, C., Arevalo, S. L., Yang, L., Johnson, M., Wheeler, P., Gerada, C., Harris, A., & Packwood, M. (2018, September). Study of a Silicon Carbide MOSFET Power Module to Establish the Benefits of Adding Anti-parallel Schottky Diodes. Presented at 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR, USA

The majority of commercial Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET based power modules available on the market today also include SiC Schottky diodes placed in anti-parallel with the MOSFETs. Using an accurate electrical and thermal simulation model this paper... Read More about Study of a Silicon Carbide MOSFET Power Module to Establish the Benefits of Adding Anti-parallel Schottky Diodes.

Performance Analysis of H- 2 Optimally Controlled Three-Phase Grids (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dewar, D., Li, K., Formentini, A., Zanchetta, P., & Wheeler, P. (2018, September). Performance Analysis of H- 2 Optimally Controlled Three-Phase Grids. Presented at 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR

Embedded electrical grids are comprised of multiple interconnected power converters, and have been recently adopted widely into applications such as micro-grids, electrical ships and More Electric Aircraft (MEA). Key aims of MEA research include redu... Read More about Performance Analysis of H- 2 Optimally Controlled Three-Phase Grids.

Optimized control design for power converters in power electronics embedded networks integrating grid model identification (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, K., Dewar, D., Formentini, A., Zanchetta, P., & Wheeler, P. (2018, September). Optimized control design for power converters in power electronics embedded networks integrating grid model identification. Presented at 2018 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS2018), Portland, OR

© 2018 IEEE The proliferation of power electronics systems and distributed generation in modern power networks has raised important issues regarding the effects that interconnected converters systems can have on the performance and stability of the w... Read More about Optimized control design for power converters in power electronics embedded networks integrating grid model identification.

New inverting modified CUK converter configurations with switched inductor (MCCSI) for high-voltage/low-current renewable applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maroti, P. K., Padmanaban, S., Bhaskar, M. S., Blaabjerg, F., & Wheeler, P. (2018, September). New inverting modified CUK converter configurations with switched inductor (MCCSI) for high-voltage/low-current renewable applications. Presented at EPE'18 ECCE Europe 20th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, Riga, Latvia

Inverting Modified CUK Converter with Switched Inductor (MCCSI) configurations are articulated in the paper for high-voltage and low-current renewable energy applications. Based on the Switched Inductor (SI) position in MCC converter, four new modifi... Read More about New inverting modified CUK converter configurations with switched inductor (MCCSI) for high-voltage/low-current renewable applications.

A comparison of modulation techniques for three-phase quasi Z-source modular multilevel converter able to provide DC-link fault blocking capability (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khera, F. A., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. W. (2018, September). A comparison of modulation techniques for three-phase quasi Z-source modular multilevel converter able to provide DC-link fault blocking capability. Paper presented at EPE'18 ECCE Europe - 20th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications

Future transmission and distribution grids will use power converters to enable interface with HVDC systems and the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is a topology that is already employed in commercial systems. The MMC converter inherent the benefit... Read More about A comparison of modulation techniques for three-phase quasi Z-source modular multilevel converter able to provide DC-link fault blocking capability.

Device-package interaction and gate driver layout analysis in SiC MOSFET power modules for more electric aircraft motor drive applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Donnell, S., Egan, L., Walsh, V., Wheeler, P., & Castellazzi, A. (2018, September). Device-package interaction and gate driver layout analysis in SiC MOSFET power modules for more electric aircraft motor drive applications. Presented at EPE'18 ECCE Europe - 20th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, Riga, Latvia

This paper presents measurements and comparison analysis of 1200 V SiC MOSFET gate drive signals in two different integrated power solutions designed for More Electric Aircraft motor drive applications. The modules are designed to accommodate a 540 V... Read More about Device-package interaction and gate driver layout analysis in SiC MOSFET power modules for more electric aircraft motor drive applications.

An Improved Multistage Switched Inductor Boost Converter (Improved M-SIBC) for Renewable Energy Applications: A key to Enhance Conversion Ratio (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhaskar, M. S., Padmanaban, S., Blaabjerg, F., & Wheeler, P. W. (2018, June). An Improved Multistage Switched Inductor Boost Converter (Improved M-SIBC) for Renewable Energy Applications: A key to Enhance Conversion Ratio. Presented at 2018 IEEE 19th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2018, Padua, Italy

In this article, an improved Multistage Switched Inductor (M-SI) based power converter or Improved Multistage Switched Inductor Boost Converter (Improved M-SIBC) is proposed for renewable applications which provides a key to enhancing the voltage con... Read More about An Improved Multistage Switched Inductor Boost Converter (Improved M-SIBC) for Renewable Energy Applications: A key to Enhance Conversion Ratio.

Design of an Integrated Inductor for 45kW Aerospace Starter-Generator (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Raza Khowja, M., Gerada, C., Vakil, G., Quadri, S. Q., Wheeler, P., & Patel, C. (2018, June). Design of an Integrated Inductor for 45kW Aerospace Starter-Generator. Presented at 2018 IEEE Transportation and Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Long, CA, USA

A close physical and functional integration of passive components is required to make an efficient and power dense overall system. Such power dense systems are a prerequisite in aerospace and marine applications. This paper presents a design of an in... Read More about Design of an Integrated Inductor for 45kW Aerospace Starter-Generator.

Unipolar single reference multicarrier sinusoidal pulse width modulation based 7-level inverter with reduced number of semiconductor switches for renewable energy applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Raj, K., Mahajan, S. B., Sanjeevikumar, P., Frede, B., Pat, W., & Muhammad H., R. (2018, August). Unipolar single reference multicarrier sinusoidal pulse width modulation based 7-level inverter with reduced number of semiconductor switches for renewable energy applications. Paper presented at IEEE-PEMC 2018 - 18th International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control

In the present scenario of increasing power
demand and depletion of fossil fuel results in the research
advancements in the field of renewable energy sources. Among
various types of renewable energy sources, photovoltaic related
applications are... Read More about Unipolar single reference multicarrier sinusoidal pulse width modulation based 7-level inverter with reduced number of semiconductor switches for renewable energy applications.

A New Voltage Doubler Based DC-DC 2LCm-Y Power Converter Topologies for High-Voltage/Low-Current Renewable Energy Applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhaskar, M. S., Padmanaban, S., Wheeler, P., Blaabjerg, F., & Siano, P. (2018, June). A New Voltage Doubler Based DC-DC 2LCm-Y Power Converter Topologies for High-Voltage/Low-Current Renewable Energy Applications. Presented at 2018 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC 2018), Long Beach, California

In this treatise, a new voltage doubler based DCDC 2LCm-Y power converter topologies are uttered for the high voltage/low-current renewable energy applications. L-Y, 2L-Y, 2LC-Y and 2LCm-Y power converter categories are recently proposed in the exist... Read More about A New Voltage Doubler Based DC-DC 2LCm-Y Power Converter Topologies for High-Voltage/Low-Current Renewable Energy Applications.

Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part I (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., & Riveros, J. A. (2018, June). Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part I. Presented at 2018 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON), San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

© 2018 IEEE. AC-DC three-phase converters are very well known for having enhanced power quality with unity displacement power factor, low total harmonic pollution on the AC side, and controllable DC output with unidirectional or bidirectional power f... Read More about Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part I.