System Wide Reliability Impact of Power Converters in More-Electric Aircraft Applications
The continued electrification of aircraft is required such that ambitious decarbonisation targets can be met. A significant challenge presented with this trend is the increased reliance on electrical systems to perform flight-critical operations in a manner that has not been seen in previous generations of aircraft. The power electronic converter is a key enabling technology in aircraft electrification. Its prevalence is such that the failure rate of flight critical-loads is closely linked with that of the associated power electronic converters. As such, there is a clear need to better understand the impact of improvements in both the reliability and failure estimation of novel power electronic converters at a systems level in future aerospace applications. Accordingly, this paper presents key highlights from literature on power converter research, summarising advances in reliability-enhancing features and more accurate Physics-of-Failure modelling methods. Simulation studies are then presented, which explore the impact of component-level advancements in power converters on the system-level failure rates and power system architecture configurations of flight-critical loads in more-electric aircraft applications.
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- Abstract reprinted with permission of SAE International.
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Authors:
- Millar, Kieran
- Fong, Kenny
- Alzola, Rafael Peña
- Norman, Patrick J
- Burt, Graeme M
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Conference:
- 2023 AeroTech
- Location: Fort Worth Texas, United States
- Date: 2023-3-14 to 2023-3-16
- Publication Date: 2023-3-7
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
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Serial:
- SAE Technical Paper
- Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
- ISSN: 0148-7191
- EISSN: 2688-3627
- Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aircraft; Computer architecture; Electric vehicles; Electronic data interchange; Electronics; Failure analysis; Reliability; Simulation; Vehicle electrical systems
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01875886
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: SAE International
- Report/Paper Numbers: 2023-01-0991
- Files: TRIS, SAE
- Created Date: Mar 20 2023 4:14PM