A Review of Power Electronic Converters for Electric Aircrafts

The vehicular sector is undergoing an electric revolution, and the aircraft industry is expected to be able to embrace fundamental disruption. The impact on the environment, cost savings, maintenance, noise pollution, and safety benefits of switching to electric aircraft are undisputable. Nonetheless, several technical challenges must be overcome before electric airplanes can be built to meet public acceptance and trust. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of airplane electrification. This review paper also investigates challenges such as electric power increase, and voltage bus increase to name a few. Moreover, ways of reducing them such as wide bandgap (WBG) devices, system integration, etc. This paper also investigates several tremendous power electric converter topologies with their features and shortcomings. Furthermore, the performance of electric airplanes is greatly influenced by power electronics. Therefore, safety, efficiency, power density, and power quality were considered.