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The More Electric Aircraft: Technology and challenges.
Patrick Wheeler,Sergei Bozhko +1 more
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The importance of power electronics as an enabling technology for this step change in aircraft design is considered, and examples of typical system designs are discussed in this article, as well as the exciting future challenges for the aerospace industry.Abstract:
The More Electric Aircraft concept offers many potential benefits in the design and efficiency of future large, manned aircraft. In this article, typical ?aircraft electrical power systems and associated loads are described as well as the exciting future challenges for the aerospace industry. The importance of power electronics as an enabling technology for this step change in aircraft design is considered, and examples of typical system designs are discussed.read more
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The More-Electric Aircraft and Beyond
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A Universal Wideband Device-Level Parallel Simulation Method and Conducted EMI Analysis for More Electric Aircraft Microgrid
TL;DR: A universal method for wideband modeling and simulation of the MEA microgrid system in the time domain, regardless of the fact that motors are driven by which kind of converter, e.g., modular multilevel converter (MMC), 3-L neutral-point clamped (NPC), or 2-L pulsewidth modulation (PWM) converters is presented.
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An Efficient Hierarchical Zonal Method for Large-Scale Circuit Simulation and Its Real-Time Application on More Electric Aircraft Microgrid
Zhen Huang,Venkata Dinavahi +1 more
TL;DR: An efficient method is presented, which decouples the circuit topology and components’ characteristics in computation so as to make it suitable for large-scale circuit simulation and achieves nearly linear computational complexity and is very suitable for hierarchical and zonal computation.
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Technical Review of Dual Inverter Topologies for More Electric Aircraft Applications
TL;DR: In this paper , a comprehensive review of different structures based on the dual inverter is presented, including the voltage utilization, output quality, and fault-tolerant capability, and a practical guideline for choosing suitable dual inverters for different electric aircraft (MEA) applications is provided.
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An Enhanced Second Carrier Harmonic Cancellation Technique for Dual-Channel Enhanced Power Generation Centre Applications in More-Electric Aircraft
TL;DR: The power quality issues of this dual-channel power generation system are addressed, specifically focusing on the reduction of harmonics on a common dc bus, and a new harmonic cancellation method is proposed through active power sharing and phase angle shifting of the carrier signals within different power sources.
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More-electric aircraft-system considerations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address some of the issues and trends becoming apparent in aircraft electrical power systems and present a number of developments at the component level that are well advanced and will increase electrical power levels.
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