Title:

Transportation Electrification Research at ORNL

Speaker:

Prof. Burak Ozpineci

Affiliation:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

When:

Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

MRDC Building, Room 4211

Host:

Dr. Yogendra Joshi
yogendra.joshi@me.gatech.edu

Abstract

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a part of the Electric Drive Technologies Consortium which includes four national laboratories and ten universities to increase the power density (8x), efficiency, and lifetime (2x) miles driven for electric drives while reducing the cost by half. ORNL’s research scope within the consortium includes device packaging, high voltage inverters, non-heavy rare earth electric motors, and integrated electric drive systems. Dr. Ozpineci will talk about the electric drive challenges for electric vehicles and approaches to achieve high power densities. With the recent demand for faster charging electric vehicles to rival the refill time of conventional vehicles, the interest in high power wired and wireless charging is increasing. While recent industry demonstrations have shown 450kW wired charging, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has recently demonstrated a 120kW static wireless charging system using a single power conversion system and a single transmitter/receiver coil pair. Now the focus switches to more than 300kW wireless charging and dynamic wireless charging. In the second part of the this presentation, Dr. Ozpineci will talk about current status in wired and wireless charging, and the associated challenges.

Biography

Burak Ozpineci received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He joined the Post-Masters Program with the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Knoxville, TN, USA, in 2001 and became a Full-Time Research and Development Staff Member in 2002 and Group Leader of the Power and Energy Systems Group in 2008. He is currently leading the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Group and managing the Electric Drive Technologies Program at ORNL. He also serves as a Joint Faculty Associate Professor with The Bredesen Center at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.