Featured paper! Ph. D. Luca Tarisciotti

A. Trentin; G. Sala, L. Tarisciotti, A. Galassini, M. Degano, P. Connor, D. Golovanov, D. Gerada, Z. Xu, A. La Rocca, C. Eastwick, S. Pickering, P. Wheeler, J. C. Clare, C. Gerada, “Research and Realisation of High-Power Medium Voltage Active Rectifier Concepts for Future Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Generation,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.3040692.

URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9280429&isnumber=4387790

This paper describe the research and development of a 3kV active rectifier for a 4MW aerospace generator drive system demonstrator. The converter is fed by a multi-phase high speed/high frequency, permanent magnet generator.

The main aim of the work is to demonstrate for the first time the feasibility of a MW-class generator system meeting future hybrid-electric propulsion requirements. A concept with multiple and isolated three-phase systems feeding different power buses is proposed to meet the availability requirements.