Heat Pipe Enhanced Thermal Management System for GaN Switches in an Integrated Modular Motor Drive for Aircraft Propulsion

Towhid Chowdhury; Salar Koushan; Seyed Sabzevari; Armin Ebrahimian; Xuhui Feng; Ayman El-Refaie; Nathan Weise

doi:10.1109/ECCE55643.2024.10860814

Heat Pipe Enhanced Thermal Management System for GaN Switches in an Integrated Modular Motor Drive for Aircraft Propulsion

Towhid Chowdhury, Salar Koushan, Seyed Sabzevari, Armin Ebrahimian, Xuhui Feng, Ayman El-Refaie, Nathan Weise

Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences

Marquette University

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Abstract

This paper presents the process of sizing a heat pipe enhanced thermal management system (TMS) for GaN switches in an integrated modular motor drive (IMMD) powering a 250 kW aircraft propulsion electric motor. A test setup mimicking the TMS and GaN switches assembly is constructed. The condenser chamber of the TMS is modeled in ANSYS Fluent while the GaN switches assembly is modeled in ANSYS Thermal allowing us to verify heat spreader temperature under test conditions and estimate GaN temperatures under test and actual application operating conditions.

Original language	American English
Pages	6608-6613
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE55643.2024.10860814
State	Published - 2024
Event	IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) - Phoenix, AZ Duration: 20 Oct 2024 → 24 Oct 2024

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Conference	IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
City	Phoenix, AZ
Period	20/10/24 → 24/10/24

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NREL/CP-5400-90878

Keywords

heat pipe
power electronics
testing
thermal management system

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Chowdhury, T., Koushan, S., Sabzevari, S., Ebrahimian, A., Feng, X., El-Refaie, A., & Weise, N. (2024). Heat Pipe Enhanced Thermal Management System for GaN Switches in an Integrated Modular Motor Drive for Aircraft Propulsion. 6608-6613. Paper presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, AZ. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE55643.2024.10860814

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Heat Pipe Enhanced Thermal Management System for GaN Switches in an Integrated Modular Motor Drive for Aircraft Propulsion

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