A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft Controller
The air-cooled motor controller has been widely used in electric aircraft due to its simple heat dissipation structure and maintenance-free features. Being the main heating component of the electric propulsion system of electric aircraft, the weight and the volume of the air-cooled motor controller...
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| author | Shuli Wang Xing Cui Shaohua Ma Zheyuan Pang Yuning Feng Shuo Zhang |
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| description | The air-cooled motor controller has been widely used in electric aircraft due to its simple heat dissipation structure and maintenance-free features. Being the main heating component of the electric propulsion system of electric aircraft, the weight and the volume of the air-cooled motor controller need to be strictly controlled. Due to the short power running time of the electric motor controller, there is a large weight and volume allowance margin for the air-cooled radiator-based on the rated power and heat dissipation requirements of the motor controller.This paper proposes an air-cooled radiator design method that can reduce its volume and weight by optimizing its structure based on the operating conditions of the electric aircraft under the heat dissipation requirements.The structure of the air-cooled motor can be optimized by optimizing the structure the minimum structure of the motor controller radiator constrained by the maximum temperature of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) module,which can be determined using an algorithm called the motor controller thermal resistance network model. Experimental results obtained from a prototype test on a two-seat electric aircraft demonstrate the effectiveness of the optimization method. The air-cooled radiator designed using the proposed method can be reduced by 5% in weight while meeting the heat dissipation requirements of the motor controller of the electric aircraft. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8880b30a2bb744ada8e33f9e65d328122022-12-21T21:26:57ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-018602706027810.1109/ACCESS.2020.29819619042223A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft ControllerShuli Wang0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7604-6190Xing Cui1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2955-7721Shaohua Ma2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6335-5285Zheyuan Pang3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7625-6024Yuning Feng4Shuo Zhang5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1397-5926School of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, ChinaChina North Vehicle Research Institute, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, ChinaNational Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, ChinaThe air-cooled motor controller has been widely used in electric aircraft due to its simple heat dissipation structure and maintenance-free features. Being the main heating component of the electric propulsion system of electric aircraft, the weight and the volume of the air-cooled motor controller need to be strictly controlled. Due to the short power running time of the electric motor controller, there is a large weight and volume allowance margin for the air-cooled radiator-based on the rated power and heat dissipation requirements of the motor controller.This paper proposes an air-cooled radiator design method that can reduce its volume and weight by optimizing its structure based on the operating conditions of the electric aircraft under the heat dissipation requirements.The structure of the air-cooled motor can be optimized by optimizing the structure the minimum structure of the motor controller radiator constrained by the maximum temperature of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) module,which can be determined using an algorithm called the motor controller thermal resistance network model. Experimental results obtained from a prototype test on a two-seat electric aircraft demonstrate the effectiveness of the optimization method. The air-cooled radiator designed using the proposed method can be reduced by 5% in weight while meeting the heat dissipation requirements of the motor controller of the electric aircraft.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9042223/Electric aircraftmotor controllerIGBT moduleair-cooled radiatorthermal resistance network model |
| spellingShingle | Shuli Wang Xing Cui Shaohua Ma Zheyuan Pang Yuning Feng Shuo Zhang A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft Controller IEEE Access Electric aircraft motor controller IGBT module air-cooled radiator thermal resistance network model |
| title | A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft Controller |
| title_full | A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft Controller |
| title_fullStr | A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft Controller |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft Controller |
| title_short | A Design Method of Air-Cooled Radiator Based on Electric Aircraft Controller |
| title_sort | design method of air cooled radiator based on electric aircraft controller |
| topic | Electric aircraft motor controller IGBT module air-cooled radiator thermal resistance network model |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9042223/ |
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