TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-port power conversion systems for the more electric aircraft
AU - Gu, Chunyang
AU - Zhang, He
AU - Buticchi, Giampaolo
AU - Sala, Giacomo
AU - Galassini, Alessandro
AU - Papadopoulos, Savvas
AU - Degano, Michele
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/26
Y1 - 2018/12/26
N2 - In the framework of the More Electric Aircraft (MEA), weight reduction and energy efficiency constitute the key figures. In addition to these requirements, the safety and the continuity of operation is of critical importance. These sets of desired feature are in disagreement, because the redundancy needed to guarantee the safety of operation implies necessarily in additional weight. Several concepts of the electrical power distribution systems have been proposed, in this manuscript, an approach based on the widespread use of multi-port power converters both for the DC/DC and for the DC/AC stages is proposed. These two technologies allows for a ring distribution of the electrical power whereas the galvanic isolation is still kept. Simulation and experimental results show the feasibility of the concept in common and fault operation conditions.
AB - In the framework of the More Electric Aircraft (MEA), weight reduction and energy efficiency constitute the key figures. In addition to these requirements, the safety and the continuity of operation is of critical importance. These sets of desired feature are in disagreement, because the redundancy needed to guarantee the safety of operation implies necessarily in additional weight. Several concepts of the electrical power distribution systems have been proposed, in this manuscript, an approach based on the widespread use of multi-port power converters both for the DC/DC and for the DC/AC stages is proposed. These two technologies allows for a ring distribution of the electrical power whereas the galvanic isolation is still kept. Simulation and experimental results show the feasibility of the concept in common and fault operation conditions.
KW - Electrical power distribution system (EPDS)
KW - More electric aircraft (MEA)
KW - Multi-port active bridge (MAB)
KW - Segmented driven starter/generators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061525507&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2018.8592915
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2018.8592915
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061525507
T3 - Proceedings: IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
SP - 5553
EP - 5558
BT - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2018
Y2 - 20 October 2018 through 23 October 2018
ER -
