Abstract
This paper focuses on two key technical concepts, which may have a tremendous impact on future generations of power electronic converters: the Power Electronic Building Block (PEBB) concept, and the 5G/6G wireless data transfer. It is expected that these two trends may induce development of new cognitive of power electronic converters: Power Electronics 4.0. To investigate this concept, a Proof of Concept (PoC) of PEBB-based power converter integrated with a 5G network, was designed and tested. Study confirmed that power converter assembled from PEBB modules can compete with state-of-the-art devices. Moreover, test results indicates that several challenges related to PEBB and integration of power electronic equipment with 5G network has to be resolved, to enable growth of augmented power electronic converters, especially if wireless data transfer is meant for communication between PEBB modules.
Highlights
The exponential increase of demand on the wireless data transfer [1], drives tremendous growth of modern, designed for high-speed data transfer communication systems-like 5G or 6G network
This paper focuses on the whole Power Electronic Building Block (PEBB)-based power converter, evaluation of its performance, and challenges related to incorporating wireless communication over 5G network into power electronic converter
Future work will focus on other topologies of PEBBbased devices, like Dual Active Bridge (DAB) equipped with single- or three-phase active rectifier
Summary
The exponential increase of demand on the wireless data transfer [1], drives tremendous growth of modern, designed for high-speed data transfer communication systems-like 5G or 6G network. There are approximately 107 commercial 5G networks across the world, which have in range over 7% of the total population. Forecasts given in [3] show that these numbers will increase rapidly, and the 5G network will support over 20% of the total wireless connections already in the year 2025. This dynamic growth of wideband wireless networks, like 5G or 6G, aligns with the constantly increasing presence of power electronic converters in modern society. As each evolution, this faces some challenges like low versatility of power converters, or high prices of power electronic components and subassemblies, which drives the research over modular [5] or universal power converters [6]
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