《A Comparative Efficiency Study of Silicon-based Solid State Transformers》.pdf

A Comparative Efficiency Study of Silicon-based Solid State Transformers Hengsi Qin and Jonathan W. Kimball Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Missouri University of Science and Technology 141 Emerson Electric Co. Hall 301 W. 16th St., Rolla, MO 65409, USA Abstract—Solid state transformers (SSTs) have lower physical transformer and illustrates the loss breakdown in the SST. profiles than traditional 60 Hz transformers and provide active Finally, it compares the efficiency of all four topologies under control of power flow. However, they are not as efficient as different load conditions and identifies key targets for loss traditional 60 Hz transformers because of the presence of power reduction. electronic converters. This work presents an analytical loss cal- culation model of an SST. It evaluates conduction loss, switching II. OPERATION PRINCIPLE loss and transformer loss in four candidate SST topologies. Loss breakdown under both rated-load and light-load conditions are A. SST Configurations compared for all four configurations. The following briefly reviews the hardware configuration Index Terms—Solid State Transformer, Efficiency, Soft Switch- ing and operational principles of four SST topologies: