High Performance Gate-Driver Power Supply for Renewable and Energy Storage Converters
Join Dr. Emanuel Serban to learn the high performance gate-driver power supply for renewable energy and energy storage converters!
PRESENTATION SUMMARY
Researchers and designers are often confronted with multiple variables when pursuing one key design goal: optimized and cost-effective converter design for high performance. This talk will review the requirements of gate-drive technology in solar photovoltaics, energy storage applications, and the electric vehicle market. Soft-switching techniques have been proposed in power converters (>1kW) to achieve high-efficiency levels (>98%). However, less emphasis has been given to low power converters (e.g. < 10W). A new resonant converter structure is proposed which features an integrated planar transformer. Finally, this power supply design provides an attractive gate-drive solution to GaN, SiC, or silicon-based power devices for high-performance system operation.
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- Date: 25 Feb 2022
- Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-08:00) Canada/Pacific
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- Starts 04 February 2022 12:00 PM
- Ends 25 February 2022 01:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-08:00) Canada/Pacific
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Emanuel Serban of Engineering Manager at EnerSys
Biography:
Dr. Emanuel Serban currently holds two positions, Engineering Manager at EnerSys, and Research Associate with the Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He specializes in research and development of advanced renewable and energy storage systems. As a professional electrical engineer at Xantrex Technology Inc., he developed several power electronics platforms for industry and solar photovoltaic applications (1997-2009). As a R&D Chief Engineer at Schneider Electric (2009-2019) he developed hybrid distributed power systems, renewable multi-level converters architecture and platform design. His main fields of interest are in power electronics modeling and control, analysis and design of power converters for renewable, storage and distributed energy systems.