Tj Pickett-Pinex, Illinois Solar Decathlon Undergraduate Research ARISE Scholar There are two mail problems with wind turbines in residential settings: they are imposing, intrusive structures that don’t function in a light breeze. A green-energy concept considers a turbine that looks like a tree and works in light winds. During the COP21 (https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement), a few streets […]
Illinois Solar Decathlon
UIUC’s Illinois Solar Decathlon Design Team are finalists! Over the past school year, the Design Team has worked numerous hours to bring to life a project they call IDEALS, a 165,000 sq. ft. K–8th grade educational institution standing to promote innovation, design, engineering, arts, learning, and sustainability in its design. It is a state-of-the-art, progressive, […]
Illini Solar Car
Clark Taylor, Illini Solar Car team member, continues, “This year, Illini Solar Car finished work on their third-generation car, Calypso, the team’s most efficient car to date. The car’s efficiency is a result of modifications like the switch to only three wheels, the first of the team’s cars to include this feature, as well as […]
A 7-Level Interleaved Hybrid Active-Neutral-Point Clamped Converter for High-Frequency Low-Inductance Motors
MS student Arjit Bali with Advisor A. Stillwell Electric vehicle and electric aviation applications require lightweight electro-mechanical energy conversion, however, passive components in the drive system can constrain the power density. Slotless machine construction can attain high power density, but such designs result in very low per-phase machine inductances. The reduced inductance imposes additional filtering […]
Assessing Reliability of a SiC MOSFET During Converter Operation
PhD student Furkan Karakaya with Advisor A. Banerjee Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs are being widely adopted in the industry as a viable substitute for conventianal power transistors, due to their superior figure-of-merit and compact, efficient power conversion. However, the relatively novel manufacturing technology of these devices raises questions regarding long-term reliability, as SiC devices have […]