Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) system is becoming a captivating alternative for designing All Electric Ship (AES) for the US Navy. Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is considered as an essential component of MVDC systems for its scalability and efficacy. Designing such a power electronic converter for an electric ship is a challenging task in terms of volume constraints in an electric ship.Preliminary naval ship design used point based spiral design techniques, but the complexity and some disadvantages of such design techniques don’t necessarily produce the most feasible cost effective design. To overcome the issue, the US Navy is exploring the application of Set Based Design(SBD) for designing naval architecture through Smart Ship System Design (S3D) to aid the early stage ship design.This thesis explores the areas of SBD to have a better understanding and knowledge of the design techniques. This is accomplished by design exercise employing SBD to design an essential component of the MVDC breaker-less architecture which is Modular Multilevel Converter. The effort begins with investigating the scaling factors for MMC and apply them to estimate the power density of the converter through exploration of SBD.The outcome of this work is expected to aid early stage ship design exercises using S3D which will enable a guideline for applying SBD concepts to integrate into ship system design. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Summer Semester 2017. / July 14, 2017. / MMC, MVDC system, Quality function deployment, Scaling factors, Set Based Design, Taguchi method / Includes bibliographical references. / Md Omar Faruque, Professor Directing Thesis; Simon Y. Foo, Committee Member; Shonda Bernadin, Committee Member; Ruturaj Soman, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_552142 |
| Contributors | Toshon, Tanvir Ahmed (authoraut), Faruque, Md Omar (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) (professor directing thesis), Foo, Simon Y. (committee member), Bernadin, Shonda Lachelle (committee member), Soman, Ruturaj (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), FAMU-FSU College of Engineering (degree granting college), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, master thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (114 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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