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Analysis, comparison and selection of DC-DC converters for a novel modular energy conversion scheme for DC offshore wind farms
Barrenetxea, Manex; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (IEEE, 2015)Offshore wind farms provide benefits over onshore farms in terms of the amount of generated energy and environmental impact. Cost efficient energy transmission is one of the challenges of such installations. In this context, ... -
DC-link Voltage Balancing Strategy based on SVM and Reactive Power Exchange for a 5L-MPC Back-to-Back Converter for Medium Voltage Drives
Mazuela, Mikel; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (IEEE, 2016)The reduced capability of multilevel converters with more than one intermediate node to balance the dc-link capacitors voltage, as well as the lack of standard modulation methods to improve their balancing performance, ... -
Design of a novel modular energy conversion scheme for DC offshore wind farms
Barrenetxea, Manex; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (IEEE, 2015)Offshore wind farms provide benefits over onshore farms in terms of the amount of generated energy and environmental impact. Cost efficient energy transmission is one of the challenges of those installations. In this context ... -
Design of a Solid-State Circuit Breaker for a DC Grid-Based Vessel Power System
Tapia, Lukas; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor; Abad, Gonzalo (MDPI, 2019)Electric propulsion and integrated hybrid power systems can improve the energy efficiency and fuel consumption of different kinds of vessels. If the vessel power system is based on DC grid distribution, some benefits ... -
Electric Technology in Wind Turbines from a Dialectic Perspective
Abad, Gonzalo; Milikua, Aritz; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2019)Wind turbines have been used by many groups of humans for many centu-ries. Wind turbines have allowed groups of humans to perform many different tasks in the past (grinding grain, pumping water, etc.). However, ... -
Fundamentos básicos del acoplamiento inductivo y rol de los condensadores de desacoplo
Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor; Garrido, David (Federación de Asociaciones de Ingenieros Industriales de España, 2022)El acoplamiento electromagnético es el mecanismo con el que un circuito induce ruido o interferencia en otro circuito adyacente. Este mecanismo de acople genera Interferencias Electromagnéticas que degradan o incluso ... -
Gallium Nitride Power Devices: A State of the Art Review
Udabe Zabala, Ander; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor; Garrido, David (IEEE, 2023)Wide Bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials present promising electrical and thermal characteristics for Power Electronics applications. These WBG devices make it possible the development of more efficient converters with ... -
Medium voltage-high power converter topologies comparison procedure for a 6.6kV Drive Application using 4.5kV IGBT Modules
Abad, Gonzalo; Mazuela, Mikel; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor; Sanchez-Ruiz, Alain (IEEE, 2012)This paper presents a general comparison procedure for medium voltage - high power multilevel converter topologies and semiconductors, which is mainly based on analyzing the performance limits of the converters output ... -
Multi-Objective Comparative Analysis of Active Modular Rectifier Architectures for a More Electric Aircraft
Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (MDPI, 2022)Aircraft electrification requires reliable, power-dense, high-efficient, and bidirectional rectifiers to improve the overall performance of existing aircrafts. Thus, traditional bulky passive rectifiers must be substituted ... -
Power electronic converter design handbook
Barrenetxea, Manex; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor; Larrazabal Bengoetxea, Igor; Zubimendi Azaceta, Ignacio (Mondragon Unibertsitateko Zerbitzu Editoriala, 2018)Nowadays, power electronic converters play an essential role in the majority of consumer electronic devices and are widely used in industrial applications. Since most of these applications are supplied through the AC grid, ... -
Review of Wide Bandgap Materials and their Impact in New Power Devices
Garrido, David; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (IEEE, 2017)Power electronic converters use semiconductors to satisfy the needs of different applications. Nowadays, these semiconductors are mainly based on Silicon (Si), which can be processed virtually without defects. However, the ... -
Series connection of power semiconductors for medium voltage applications
Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (Mondragon Unibertsitatea. Goi Eskola Politeknikoa, 2009)The series connection of power semiconductor devices allows the operation at voltage levels higher than the levels allowed by one single semiconductor. However, due to individual parameter differences of the series connected ... -
Simple and Affordable Method for Fast Transient Measurements of SiC Devices
Garrido, David; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor; Arza Alonso, Joseba; Barrenetxea, Manex (IEEE, 2020)The measurement of fast voltage and current transients of Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices requires high bandwidth (BW) probes. Commercially available voltage and current probes can be expensive, and, in addition, the delay ... -
Simple voltage balancing method to protect series-connected devices experimentally verified in a 5L-MPC converter
Mazuela, Mikel; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (IEEE, 2018)This paper presents a solution for the voltage balance problem of the series-connected devices that can be applied to multilevel converters in which the series-connected devices need to block twice their switched voltage. ... -
Static Current Unbalance of Paralleled SiC MOSFET Modules in the Final Layout
Garrido, David; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (IEEE, 2020)Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs enable enhanced performance of power converters in several applications. Parallel connection of SiC MOSFETs become mandatory for medium power applications due to the current rate of existing ... -
Time-Frequency Analysis of Experimental Measurements for the Determination of EMI Noise Generators in Power Converters
Oyarzun, Javier; Aizpuru, Iosu; Baraia-Etxaburu, Igor (MDPI, 2022)In the context of recent decades in which there has been great development in power electronics systems with increasingly better operating characteristics, the study of the factors that affect the behaviour of these systems ...