Description du projet
Augmenter l’efficacité du système électrique des avions
Le carbure de silicium (SiC) est un nouveau matériau pour les dispositifs électroniques de puissance de la prochaine génération, qui devrait considérablement améliorer l’efficacité et réduire la taille et le poids de la technologie des convertisseurs de puissance des avions. Les systèmes électriques qui utilisent des semi-conducteurs en carbure de silicium nous permettront d’obtenir des densités de puissance, des tensions, des températures et des fréquences bien plus élevées tout en réduisant la dissipation de chaleur. L’objectif du projet MuSiCA, financé par l’UE, est de concevoir et de fabriquer un module d’électronique de puissance intégré à un pilote de grille dans un package fiable permettant de tirer pleinement profit de la technologie SiC et de démontrer sa capacité à rivaliser avec les solutions actuelles. Les résultats du projet soutiendront l’adoption de nouveaux dispositifs SiC dans les applications aérospatiales, permettant de fabriquer des convertisseurs de puissance plus petits et plus légers pour des avions plus électriques tout en contribuant à réduire la consommation de carburant et les émissions de carbone.
Objectif
MuSiCA will design and supply a power electronic module and gate driver using silicon carbide devices for a relatively high frequency 100kW aircraft motor drive application. The power converter topology has been chosen and is provided as an input to the project. The main objective is to package silicon carbide devices in a manufacture-able and reliable power module package to enable silicon carbide technology to meet its full potential in terms of competitiveness against current solutions. The power module package will be integrated with the gate driver developed in the project. The hardware will be produced during the project and tested on an existing Clean Sky 2 funded motor drive test bed. The output of the project will be a demonstration of the manufactured hardware and evidence of its manufacturability, reliability and low weight and volume, and potential to reduce CO2, NOx and Noise emissions. The target application is European Aerospace but the solutions developed will be applicable to other applications such as automotive, rail and renewable energy, where high reliability and manufacturability is desirable. The key objectives of MuSiCA are to: Increase manufacturability, Increase long term in-service reliability, Increase modularity and scalability, Integration with Clean Sky test bed, Maximise the performance of silicon carbide power semiconductor devices, Enable the demonstration of the complete power converter. The power electronics module developed in MuSiCA will support the Clean Sky ambitions. It is expected that MuSiCA will directly address the ITD Systems and in particular will feed into the WP5 and WP 100.1: “Power Electronics and Electrical Drives” The CfP supports the activities within the Systems Integrated Technology Demonstrators by delivering an innovative multi-level power electronics module which can be used as a functional building block for the construction of converters for a variety of uses in on-board energy conversion systems.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryinorganic compounds
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloids
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion
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