Design and implementation of a thermal hardware-in-the-loop (THIL) platform for evaluating physical cooling systems in real-time simulation
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2022-12-27
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Fang, Yin
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Power electronics (PE) take a critical role in electricity transformation, transmission and application in modern industrial utilization. Improving the efficiency while maintaining the stability of performance of electrical system and device is a continuously studied topic. In high power PE applications, hundreds and thousands of watts of heat is generated in conduction and switching status, as a result of that, design of cooling system is essential in a PE system design process.
This thesis proposed a real-time Thermal Hardware-In-the-Loop (THIL) simulation methodology to evaluate performance of cooling system of power semiconductors in a power circuit. This method required less energy and cost rather than traditional completely physical test as well as providing credible result of semiconductor junction temperature and instantaneous power dissipation.
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Hardware-in-the-Loop, cooling system performance, semiconductor loss