IEEE Electrification - June 2021 - 2

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief
Lingling Fan
University of South Florida
Florida, USA
linglingfan@usf.edu
On Converter Topology,
Control, and Modeling
By Robert Cuzner and Lingling Fan
P
OWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS ARE THE NEW
workhorses of the upcoming age. Converters are ubiquitous
in electric vehicles (EVs), electric ships, aircraft,
railways, solar photovoltaics (PVs), batteries, and wind farms.
In this issue of IEEE Electrification Magazine, we present seven
feature articles on converter topology, control, and modeling, along
with " Technology Leaders " and " Viewpoint " columns. The converters
discussed in this issue include dc-dc converters used in transportation
electrification, ac-dc converters used in EV chargers, and
dc-ac converters used in renewable energy grid integration.
Converters used in various applications aim for different functionalities;
thus, they vary in topology and control methods. This
issue offers a picture of two types of applications (EVs and grid
integration) and their respective challenges in circuit design, control,
and modeling.
Liserre et al. contribute the " Technology Leaders " column,
" Multiwinding-Transformer-Based dc-dc Converter Solutions for
Charging Stations. " This type of isolated dc-dc converter is intended
for EV charging stations and utilizes multiwinding transformers
to save material costs and improve power density. This column
presents the circuit topology design requirements and considerations.
In addition, it is shown that modeling and simulation can
save validation costs and be conducted in various specialized software
packages, e.g., PLECS/PSIM for converter-level analysis, Ansys
Maxwell for finite-element-method-based magnetic component
analysis, and PSCAD for system-level analysis.
The " Viewpoint " column is contributed by Andrew Larkins:
" Power Converters: A Growing Challenge to Grid Stability? " In
this article, Larkins argues that power grids are in transition
from steam-age grids to green-age grids, and power converterinterfaced
generation and loads introduce many unprecedented
stability challenges. The modeling of such generation and
loads is of paramount importance in maintaining grid stability.
The first feature article, " DC-DC Converters for Transportation
Electrification, " is contributed by Chen et al. In this article, the
authors reviewed various dc-dc converters used in an EV, covering
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Associate Editors
Electric Trains
Tamas Ruzsanyi
Ganz-Skoda
Hungary
tamas.ruzsanyi@ieee.org
Eduardo Pilo de la Fuente
University Francisco Vitoria
Spain
eduardo.pilo@ufv.es
José Conrado Martínez
Administrador de
Infraestructuras
Ferroviarias
Spain
jcmartinez@adif.es
Microgrid
Suryanarayana Doolla
Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
India
suryad@iitb.ac.in
Mohammad
Shahidehpour
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Illinois, USA
ms@iit.edu
Steve Pullins
AlphaStruxure
Massachusetts, USA
steve.pullins@se.com
Antonello Monti
RWTH Aachen
Germany
amonti@eonerc
.rwth-aachen.de
Electric Ships
Marta Molinas
Norwegian University
of Science and
Technology
Norway
marta.molinas@ntnu.no
Herb Ginn
University of
South Carolina
South Carolina, USA
ginnhl@cec.sc.edu
Robert Cuzner
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wisconsin, USA
Cuzner@uwm.edu
Electric Vehicles
Khwaja Rahman
Rivian
Michigan, USA
krahman@rivian.com
Silva Hiti
Rivian
California, USA
silvahiti@rivian.com
Eduard Muljadi
Auburn University
Alabama, USA
mze0018@auburn.edu
Mahesh Krishnamurthy
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Illinois, USA
kmahesh@iit.edu
Electric Planes
Syed A. Hossain
GE Aviation
Ohio, USA
syed.hossain@ge.com
Kaushik Rajashekara
University of Houston
Texas, USA
ksraja@central.uh.edu
Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh
University of Lorraine
France
Babak.nahid@ieee.org
Bulent Sarlioglu
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Wisconsin, USA
bulent@engr.wisc.edu
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