Search results for " Capacitor"

Heat-to-current conversion of low-grade heat from a thermocapacitive cycle by supercapacitors

2015

Thermal energy is abundantly available, and especially low-grade heat is often wasted in industrial processes as a by-product. Tapping into this vast energy reservoir with cost-attractive technologies may become a key element for the transition to an energy-sustainable economy and society. We propose a novel heat-to-current converter which is based on the temperature dependence of the cell voltage of charged supercapacitors. Using a commercially available supercapacitor, we observed a thermal cell-voltage rise of around 0.6 mV K-1 over a temperature window of 0 degrees C to 65 degrees C. Within our theoretical model, this can be used to operate a Stirling-like charge-voltage cycle whose eff…

Highly Efficient Capacitive Galvanic Isolation for EV Charging Stations

2022

This paper proposes an isolated Switched Capacitor (SC) power converter which provides galvanic isolation through Capacitive Power Transfer (CPT). The combination of these two technologies might answer for electrical and power requirements in different electrical mobility application fields, such as battery charging. Accordingly, due to the low conversion losses the combination of these two technologies can provide, compact, cost effective and highly efficient power converters can be derived, thus potentially answering the scalability requirements for the Electric Vehicles (EV) market. To assess the operation of the proposed circuital solution, a Full Bridge (FB) CPT isolated interfacing co…

Highly Compact Partial Power Converter for a Highly Efficient PV-BESS Stacked Generation System

2022

The inherently intermittent nature of photovoltaic (PV) energy has brought increasing interest towards the integration between PV sources and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). In this paper, a Series Partial Power Processing (PPP) converter based on Capacitive Power Transfer (CPT) is proposed to integrate PV and BESS in a grid-connected inverter system. The proposed converter has been simulated according to a PV string capable to provide 1430 W under full irradiance conditions, a BESS nominal voltage equal to 215 V and a solar inverter assumed to operate with a minimum voltage of 150 V and a maximum current of 10 A. Simulation tests carried out at different conditions of solar radiatio…

About the mechanism of the solid-way synthesis of barium metatitanate. Industrial consequences

1990

Abstract Barium metatitanate BaTiO 3 is the main component of the dielectric material of class 2 ceramic capacitors. The solid state reaction between BaCO 3 and TiO 2 is still one of the main industrial ways for the BaTiO 3 preparation. The aim of the paper is to propose a coherent set of interfacial reactions in order to explain all the experimental results previously published about this well known solid state reaction. The paper gives at first a summary of the main experimental results. Then all the interfacial reactions at the various stages of the advancement are proposed. All these reactions involve the same main point defects in BaTiO 3 which are barium and oxygen vacancies. It has b…

Cover Picture: Bis(2,2′‐biphenoxy)borates for Electrochemical Double‐Layer Capacitor Electrolytes (Chem. Eur. J. 11/2011)

2011

Adaptive tuning system and parameter estimation of a digitally controlled boost converter with STM32

2019

. This paper proposes a diagnostic system of a power electronic converter, based on a cheap STM32 Nucleo board, aiming to extract some relevant measurements which gives back important values of the converter's parameters behavior. Moreover the designed system is also exploited for implementing the converter's auto tuning in order to optimize its dynamic performance.

Conceptual design of the TRACE detector readout using a compact, dead time-less analog memory ASIC

2015

[EN] The new TRacking Array for light Charged particle Ejectiles (TRACE) detector system requires monitorization and sampling of all pulses in a large number of channels with very strict space and power consumption restrictions for the front-end electronics and cabling. Its readout system is to be based on analog memory ASICs with 64 channels each that sample a View the MathML source window of the waveform of any valid pulses at 200 MHz while discarding any other signals and are read out at 50 MHz with external ADC digitization. For this purpose, a new, compact analog memory architecture is described that allows pulse capture with zero dead time in any channel while vastly reducing the tota…

Fine grain barium titanate: ferroelectric domains and X-ray diffraction diagram

2002

Through three different studies using various kinds of BaTiO/sub 3/ samples: as a powder while heating over the Curie temperature; as a green ceramic as a function of the forming pressure; as a ceramic while applying a D.C. field. It is shown how X-ray diffraction is able to give information about the evolution of the 90/spl deg/ ferroelectric domain microstructure.

ELECTROCHEMICAL FABRICATION OF METAL/OXIDE/CONDUCTING POLYMER JUNCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES

2014

The effect of hydration layers on the anodic growth and on the dielectric properties of Al2O3 for electrolytic capacitors

2014

Hydrous films were grown on high purity and cubicity Al foils for electrolytic capacitors in deionized water, ethylene glycol - deionized water and in glycerol - deionized water for different immersion times. According to the X-ray diffraction patterns the hydration treatment allowed to grow a pseudo boehmite layer on Al surface whose morphology is appreciably affected by the bath composition. Capacitance measurements and photoelectrochemical findings suggest that a more compact barrier layer forms during the immersion in alcohol containing solutions. The hydration in water allowed to save energy and to prepare more blocking oxide films. The beneficial effect of hydration in hot water on th…