A Hybrid Switching Inverter for High -Efficiency Traction Motor Drives

Juluri Shiva Prasad, Narra Narender Reddy

Abstract: This paper presents a hybrid switch which parallels a power MOSFET and an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) as the main switch of a zero-voltage switching (ZVS) inverter. In this combination MOSFET is conducting in the low-current region and the IGBT conducting in the high-current region, and the soft switching avoids the reverse recovery problem during the device turn-on. A custom hybrid switch module has been developed for a variable-timing-controlled coupled-magnetic-type ZVS inverter with a nominal input voltage of 325 V and the continuous output power of 30 kW for a traction motor drive. The results of the hybrid-switch-based inverter with the total loss shows that the inverter achieves 99 % efficiency at the nominal condition and demonstrate ultrahigh-efficiency operation over a wide load range. At 375-V input, the maximum measured efficiency through temperature projection and loss separation analysis is 99.3 %.

Keywords: High efficiency, Electric vehicles, hybrid switch, motor drives, soft-switching inverter

How to Cite?: Juluri Shiva Prasad, Narra Narender Reddy, "A Hybrid Switching Inverter for High -Efficiency Traction Motor Drives", Volume 5 Issue 5, May 2016, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 222-226, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=NOV163285, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/NOV163285