The Power Electronics Lab provides testing facilities
for characterising and developing power electronic converters and power semiconductor components. Our state-of-the-art equipment includes high power AC and DC supplies and loads, high frequency measurement equipment and power analysers for accurate efficiency measurements.
Contact
Marion Bechtold
Business Developer Power Electronics and Solar at EnergyVille/KU Leuven
Description
Advantages
- Expertise on power electronic converter hardware, control and system-level interactions
- Development of novel, customer-specific power electronic converters
- Testing of power electronic converters
- Interoperability in power electronic converter systems
- Efficiency characterisation of power electronic converters
- Power semiconductor component characterisation and modelling
- Rapid converter prototyping environment available with fully customisable control schemes
- Efficiency measurements
Applications
- Photovoltaic systems
- Building-integrated photovoltaic systems
- Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
- DC-DC power conversion
- AC-DC power conversion
Customers
- Power semiconductor manufacturers
- Power converter manufacturers
- System integrators
Characteristics
The power electronics lab encompasses a variety of test and measurement equipment: programmable power supplies and loads, power analysers, a rapid-prototyping platform, thermal cameras and PCB manufacturing equipment.