Speaker: Dr. Sreekant Narumanchi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Meeting Date: Monday, August 26, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM (PDT)
Location: Online (via Zoom, joining link will be emailed to registrants)
Cost: none
Reservations: events.vtools.ieee.org/m/429356
Summary: Electronics, power electronics, and electric machines are becoming important for an array of mobility/transportation, renewable energy and energy efficiency applications. In this presentation, I will introduce NREL and my group. I will describe some metrics, challenges, and opportunities for power electronics, electric machines, and electric traction-drive systems for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicle applications. After that, I will give an overview of my group’s research activities in power electronics, electric machines and integrated (electric) traction-drive systems. This includes thermal management, thermo-mechanical reliability, state-of-health monitoring, and power module design, development, fabrication, and characterization aspects. Then, I will cover the power electronics thermal management experiences and background in some detail, including fluid-based cooling technologies, and efforts at both the power module and inverter/converter levels.
Bio: Dr. Sreekant Narumanchi is a Distinguished Member of Research Staff and Manager of the Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines group within the Center of Integrated Mobility Sciences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where he has completed almost 20 years. He leads a Group of 15 researchers focused on packaging, thermal management and reliability of power electronics and electric machines for electric-drive vehicles and multiple other applications. His group has collaborated with over 80 institutions across industry, universities, national and research labs, and federal agencies. Sreekant is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow, and recipient of the 2023 ASME Avram Bar-Cohen Memorial Medal and the 2022 THERMI Award. He has over 120 peer-reviewed publications and 5 patents. Sreekant had/has multiple leadership roles in conferences, journals, committees, and advisory boards. He received a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (2003), M.S. from Washington State University (1999), and B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1997), all in Mechanical Engineering.
