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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 728-738Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2022.3203515
Keywords
Conductors; Windings; Magnetic fields; Resistance; Inductance; Power transformer insulation; Mathematical models; Electromagnetic analysis; power electronics; power transformer losses; modeling; transformer windings
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This article proposes an innovative frequency analytical model for optimizing high-frequency transformers, which accurately computes the current distribution, ac resistance, and leakage inductance. The approach is validated and provides guidelines for engineers designing high-frequency transformers.
Regarding the ever-increasing switching frequency of power converters, there is a lack of tools to perform a quick and effective optimization of the high-frequency transformers embedded in isolated power converters. Indeed, at high operating frequency, the geometry of the core and windings deeply impacts the overall transformer performance. Specifically, assessing accurately the current distribution in parallel-connected windings is a challenging and key issue. Winding parallelization, frequently implemented in low-voltage and high-current applications so as to decrease Joule losses, may be an ineffective solution because of skin and proximity effects. They create an unbalanced current distribution in the parallel-connected windings, which greatly impacts the ac resistance and leakage inductance of the transformer. This article proposes an innovative frequency analytical model permitting to simply and accurately compute the current distribution in the transformer windings, the ac resistance, and the leakage inductance. The proposed approach is comprehensively presented, validated using both measurements and two-dimensional finite element analysis and analyzed giving guidelines to engineers designing high-frequency transformers.
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