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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/JPE.2015.15.2.530

Loss Analysis and Air-Cooled Design for a Cascaded Electrical Source Transmitter  

Xue, Kai-Chang (College of Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, Jilin University)
Wang, Shuang (College of Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, Jilin University)
Lin, Jun (College of Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, Jilin University)
Li, Gang (College of Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, Jilin University)
Zhou, Feng-Dao (College of Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, Jilin University)
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Journal of Power Electronics / v.15, no.2, 2015 , pp. 530-543 More about this Journal
Abstract
Air-cooling method is adopted on the basis of the requirements for the thermal stability and convenient field use of an electrical source transmitter. The power losses of the transmitter are determined after calculating the losses of the alternating current (AC)-direct current (DC) power supply, the constant-current circuit, and the output circuit. According to the analysis of the characteristics of a heat sink with striped fins and a fan, the engineering calculation expression of the Nusselt number and the design process for air-cooled dissipation are proposed. Experimental results verify that the error between calculated and measured values of the transmitter losses is 12.2%, which meets the error design requirements of less than 25%. Steady-state average temperature rise of the heat sink of the AC-DC power supply is $22^{\circ}C$, which meets the design requirements of a temperature rise between $20^{\circ}C$ and $40^{\circ}C$. The transmitter has favorable thermal stability with 40 kW output power.
Keywords
Air-cooled; Electrical source transmitter; Electromagnetic prospecting; Loss analysis;
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