State-of-the-Art and New Trends of Power Electronics Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 14624
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Interests: power electronics; power quality; active power filters; renewable energy; energy efficiency; electric vehicles; energy storage systems; battery charging systems; smart grids; smart cities; smart homes; technologies for innovative railway systems
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Interests: power electronics converters; electric mobility; renewable energy sources; digital control techniques; smart grids
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Power electronics is a comprehensive research area that cuts across many areas of application, having contributed decisively, over several decades, to revolutionizing the lives of citizens and to the modernization and evolution of the vast majority of technologies that we use today, as well as increasing industrial competitiveness in all sectors of activity. Moreover, power electronics is essential for driving the evolution of different assets in the new paradigm of smart grids, covering an enormous range of applications, such as renewables, energy storage systems, load-shift systems, electric mobility, innovative railway systems, solid-state transformers, active rectifiers, power quality conditioners, motor drivers, and also modern industrial processes. Additionally, it is important to highlight that the rapid evolution of power electronics is based on emerging technologies both for the power stage (e.g., new power semiconductors and passive components) and for the control system (e.g., innovative microprocessors and control algorithms). Embracing all these subjects in a transversal way, this Special Issue targets to institute a channel among the well-established state-of-the-art and the new trends of power electronics technologies and applications, linking novel contributions from academics, scientists, and researchers.
The topics of interest are related, but not limited to the following:
- Power electronics for electric mobility (e.g., charging and traction systems).
- Power electronics for renewables, energy storage, and load-shift systems.
- Power electronics for power quality conditioners.
- Power electronics for wireless power transfer (WPT) systems.
- Power electronics for industrial electric machine drivers and integrated motor drivers.
- Solid-state transformers based on power electronics for smart grids.
- Power electronics for ac, dc, and hybrid power grids.
- Sustainable electrical power systems supported by power electronics.
- Smart homes, smart cities, and smart grids enabled by power electronics.
- Advanced topologies of multilevel and modular power electronics converters.
- Digital control strategies (e.g., power theories, predictive control, modulation techniques) for power electronics.
- Advances in digital control platforms (e.g., microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSP, FPGA, real-time HIL) for power electronics.
- Reliability and lifetime prediction of power electronics converters.
- High-performance magnetic and capacitor technologies for power electronics converters.
- Wide-band-gap (WBG) technologies (e.g., SiC, GaN) for power electronics applications.
- New technologies of gate drivers and protection circuits for WBG technologies applied to power electronics applications.
- Electromagnetic interferences in power electronics.
- Innovative soft-switching techniques for power electronics converters.
- Design of snubber circuits for power electronics converters.
- High-power and high-density power electronics applications.
Dr. João L. Afonso
Dr. Vítor Monteiro
Guest Editors
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