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Power Conversion and Energy Management for Mission-Critical Systems

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The need for high power density has been the trend of the power conversion industry for many years. The key to obtain a high power density is to increase system’s efficiency. In the case of space applications, there is the same need for high power density but with the very important note that the reliability of the system must not be compromised. In order to increase system’s efficiency while maintaining reliability, the latest soft switching converter topologies, high power density packaging, improved heat extraction and planar magnetics are used. Other key parameters are: the digital loop control and the digital energy management through microcontrollers, and digital signal controllers.

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Abbreviations

ASM:

Assembly

BGA:

Ball Grid Array

CT:

Copper Thickness

DCM:

Discontinuous Conduction Mode

DRIBA:

Double Regulated Intermediate Bus Architecture

EMP:

Electromagnetic Pulse

ESA:

European Space Agency

ESR:

Equivalent Series Resistance

FEA (FEM):

Finite Element Analysis (Finite Element Method)

GaN:

Gallium Nitride

ICs:

Integrated Circuits

LET:

Linear Energy Transfer

MPPT:

Maximum Power Point Tracking

MTBF:

Mean Time Between Failures

ORING:

OR-ing Output Logic Function

PCB:

Printed Circuit Board

PI:

Proportional Integral

PID:

Proportional Integral Derivative

POL:

Point Of Load

POU:

Point Of Use

PWM:

Pulse Width Modulation

RF:

Radio Frequency

RMS:

Root Mean Square

SEB:

Single Event Burnout

SEBP:

Single Event Burnout Phenomenon

SEE:

Single Event Phenomenon

SEGR:

Single Event Gate Rupture

SEL:

Single Event Latch-up

SEU:

Single Event Upset

SGEMP:

System Generated EMP

SMPS:

Switched Mode Power Supply

TID:

Total Ionizing Doze

VRM:

Voltage Regulated Module

ZCS:

Zero Current Switching

ZVS:

Zero Voltage Switching

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, Program for research Space Technology and Advanced Research—STAR, project number 80/29.11.2013.

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  1. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Andrei-Stefan Savu, Adrian-Ioan Lita, Constantin Radoi, Adriana Florescu & Sergiu Oprea

  2. University of Pitesti, Pitesti, Romania

    Ioan Lita

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Savu, AS., Lita, AI., Radoi, C., Florescu, A., Oprea, S., Lita, I. (2017). Power Conversion and Energy Management for Mission-Critical Systems. In: Bizon, N., Mahdavi Tabatabaei, N., Blaabjerg, F., Kurt, E. (eds) Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49875-1_18

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