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Presentations of the PCIM Expo 2025 available on-demand!

Discover now the recordings of all presentations of the Technology Stage and E-Mobility & Energy Storage Stage. 

Technology Stage

Evaluating Efficiency and Payback of Heat-Pumps using SiC Based Compressors

8 May 2025

Speaker: Pranjal Srivastava, Strategic Market Development, Wolfspeed

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Silicon carbide (SiC) is transforming the efficiency and performance of heat pump and air conditioning systems in both hot and cold climates, increasing overall system efficiency while reducing energy consumption and lifetime system costs. In this presentation, we explore how two European cities with differing climates can benefit from designing heating and cooling systems with silicon carbide power devices instead of traditional Si-IGBTs (insulated gate bipolar transistors).

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Pranjal Srivastava

Pranjal Srivastava

Strategic Market Development

A strategic market developer at Wolfspeed since Feb 2023, responsible for the growth of our SiC devices in industrial motor drives. After SiC’s great success in the automotive sector, it is my team’s endeavor, as ‘Silicon Carbide Ambassadors,’ to extend this success story to other power electronic markets with a keen focus on industrial space. Coming from an automotive hardware designing background, followed by working as an FAE specializing in passive components for WBG-based power electronic systems, energy efficiency and energy density of the hardware has always been key to unlocking the full potential of electrification for a sustainable tomorrow. There is a limit to what can be achieved with contemporary hardware using silicon. WBG materials are causing a paradigm shift in these systems, hoping to substantiate this for heat pumps and air conditioning through my presentation.