About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Advanced Magnetic Materials for Energy and Power Conversion Applications
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Presentation Title |
Designing High Efficiency, High Power Transformers with Metal Amorphous Nanocomposites |
Author(s) |
Richard Byron Beddingfield, Subhashish Bhattacharya, Kevin Byerly, Seung Moon, Alex Leary, Ronald Noebe, Randy Bowman, Michael McHenry, Paul Ohodnicki |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Richard Byron Beddingfield |
Abstract Scope |
Metal amorphous nanocomposite (MANC) materials are attractive solutions for high power medium frequency transformers needed in advanced wide bandgap-based power converters. Advances in material design and processing enabling access to new alloy compositions, tailored ribbon width, and engineered permeabilities through strain and magnetic field annealing have provided more options and capabilities for magnetic component design based these emerging materials. This presentation will discuss lessons learned from the use of MANC materials in the design of a 10 kW, 20 kHz transformer for a dual active bridge. We will present key performance metrics of four transformer designs that include advanced research cores as well as commercially available cores. We will also present identifying characteristics from post processing that can have significant performance implications. This work will provide tools for core manufactures and magnetics engineers to further improve designs to achieve high performance components to meet the requirements of advanced power converters. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Supplemental Proceedings volume |