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[IEEE 2018 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS) - Portland, OR, USA (2018.9.23-2018.9.27)] 2018 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS) - Design and Optimization of a Solar Power Conversion System for Space Applications
摘要： This manuscript details a design method for a 500kW solar power based microgrid system for space applications. The design method utilizes multi-objective optimization with the Genetic Algorithm considering four parameters that characterize solar power based microgrids (battery voltage, PV maximum power, PV maximum power point voltage, and number of panels per string). The final optimization metric is the ratio of daily average deliverable power to total system mass (W/kg) metric. The microgrid system is composed of a number of modular DC-DC micro-converters, of which four topologies (buck, boost, buck-boost and non-inverting buck-boost) are evaluated and compared. The non-inverting buck-boost converter is determined to be the best candidate, and the optimal system characteristics are provided and analyzed. The final system design achieves a specific power of 35.56W/kg, with optimized result of 743.7V battery voltage, 439.5W PV maximum power, 182.7V PV maximum voltage, and three panels per string. Based on the optimizations results, a prototype is designed, tested, and analyzed in terms of efficiency and low temperature reliability. The converter achieved a peak efficiency of 98.4%, a power density of 3.54W/cm3, a specific power of 3.76W/g, and operated for over 267 hours of 11-minute low temperature cycles from 0oC to -140oC.
关键词： wide band gap semiconductors,microgrids,non-inverting buck-boost,maximum power point trackers,space exploration,photovoltaic systems,design optimization,DC-DC power converters,system-level design,low temperature testing
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Inverse design and demonstration of broadband grating couplers
摘要： We present a gradient-based optimization strategy to design broadband grating couplers. Using this method, we are able to reach, and often surpass, a user-specified target bandwidth during optimization. The designs produced for 220 nm silicon-on-insulator are capable of achieving 3 dB bandwidths exceeding 100 nm while maintaining central coupling efficiencies ranging from -3.0 dB to -5.4 dB, depending on partial-etch fraction. We fabricate a subset of these structures and experimentally demonstrate gratings with 3 dB bandwidths exceeding 120 nm. This inverse design approach provides a flexible design paradigm, allowing for the creation of broadband grating couplers without requiring constraints on grating geometry.
关键词： inverse design,optimization,broadband,fiber-packaging,grating couplers
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Design and Optimization of a Solar Power Conversion System for Space Applications
摘要： This manuscript details a design method for a 500kW solar power based microgrid system for space applications. The design method utilizes multi-objective optimization with the Genetic Algorithm considering four parameters that characterize solar power based microgrids (battery voltage, PV maximum power, PV maximum power point voltage, and number of panels per string). The final optimization metric is the ratio of daily average deliverable power to total system mass (W/kg) metric. The microgrid system is composed of a number of modular DC-DC micro-converters, of which four topologies (buck, boost, buck-boost and non-inverting buck-boost) are evaluated and compared. The non-inverting buck-boost converter is determined to be the best candidate, and the optimal system characteristics are provided and analyzed. The final system design achieves a specific power of 35.56W/kg, with optimized result of 743.7V battery voltage, 439.5W PV maximum power, 182.7V PV maximum voltage, and three panels per string. Based on the optimizations results, a prototype is designed, tested, and analyzed in terms of efficiency and low temperature reliability. The converter achieved a peak efficiency of 98.4%, a power density of 3.54W/cm3, a specific power of 3.76W/g, and operated for over 267 hours of 11-minute low temperature cycles from 0oC to -140oC.
关键词： low temperature testing,photovoltaic systems,wide band gap semiconductors,maximum power point trackers,design optimization,non-inverting buck-boost,space exploration,system-level design,DC-DC power converters,microgrids
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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[ASME ASME 2018 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems - San Antonio, Texas, USA (Monday 10 September 2018)] Volume 1: Development and Characterization of Multifunctional Materials; Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Adaptive Systems; Integrated System Design and Implementation - Parametric Design of a Soft Gripper Actuated Using the Electrostrictive PVDF-Based Terpolymer
摘要： Nowadays, soft grippers, which use compliant mechanisms instead of stiff components to achieve grasping action, are being utilized in an increasing range of engineering fields, such as industry, medical care and biological sample collection, for their material selection, high conformability and gentle contact with target objects compared to traditional stiff grippers. In this study, a three-fingered gripper is designed based on a simple actuation mechanism but with high conformability to the object and produces relatively high actuation force per unit mass. The electrostrictive PVDF-based terpolymer is applied as the self-folding actuation mechanism. Finite element analysis (FEA) models are developed to predict the deformation of the folded shape and grasping force of the gripper with two grasp modes, i.e. enveloping grasp and parallel grasp. The FEA models achieved good agreement with experiments. Design optimization is then formulated and a parametric design is conducted with objectives to maximize free deflection and blocked force of the gripper. The design variables are the thicknesses of the active and passive materials, and the nature of the passive layer. It is found that there exists an optimal terpolymer thickness for a given scotch tape substrate thickness to achieve maximum free deflection, and the blocked force always increases as either thickness of terpolymer or scotch tape increases. As the length of the notch increases, free deflection also increases due to more pronounced folding behavior of the actuator, but the blocked force decreases since the actuator is less stiff. The tradeoff between free deflection and blocked force is critical for the final decision on the optimal design for a particular application.
关键词： soft grippers,design optimization,electrostrictive PVDF-based terpolymer,parametric design,finite element analysis
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Performance evaluation and optimization of the cooling system of a hybrid thermionic-photovoltaic converter
摘要： Hybrid thermionic-photovoltaic (TIPV) converters are efficient and clean solutions for the direct conversion of thermal energy to electricity, taking advantage of both the photovoltaic and thermionic phenomena. An important hurdle for their efficient operation is the overheating of the PV cell integrated within the TIPV anode, due to partial conversion of the emitted electron and photon fluxes to thermal heat. This obstacle needs to be overcome with an efficient, yet practical, cooler. In this work, a copper plate heat spreader is experimentally tested for TIPV cathode temperatures up to 1450 °C, whilst its performance is also assessed using a validated CFD model for temperatures up to ~2000 °C. A multi-parametric analysis is conducted testing two coolants: i) a water/ethylene glycol mixture at various temperatures (?5–40 °C) and mass flow rates (0.05–0.4 kg·s?1), and, ii) cryogenic liquid nitrogen at a temperature of ?196 °C and mass flow rate of 0.074 kg·s?1. Numerical results reveal that with water/ethylene mixture the PV can withstand heat fluxes up to 360 W·cm?2, without its temperature exceeding 100 °C. For higher thermal fluxes (360–600 W·cm?2), cryogenic liquid nitrogen is found to prevent the PV overheating and, therefore, is an attractive coolant; however, it poses safety concerns due to its possible boiling. Finally, two additional cooling system designs are proposed, a heat sink with straight fins and another with copper pipes, which offer higher heat transfer areas, but are more difficult to manufacture, than the copper plate heat spreader.
关键词： Ultra-high power density,Copper plate heat spreader,Cooling system design optimization,Electronic device,Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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[IEEE 2020 5th International Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICDCS) - Coimbatore, India (2020.3.5-2020.3.6)] 2020 5th International Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICDCS) - Man of the League Algorithm Based Space Vector Modulated Inverter in Photovoltaic System
摘要： This paper proposes an ideal MLA based direct –current vector to control plot of GS-VSC. It is hold steady dc capacitor voltages to enhance the receptive power pay and to strengthen the converter straight adjustment limit.
关键词： Stimulator,Adaptive control,Power electronic,Design optimization methodology,DC-DC converters,Boost converter,Optimal design
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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[IEEE 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM) - Chengdu (2018.3.26-2018.3.28)] 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM) - Frequency-Dependent Implicit Space-Mapping Algorithm for Wideband Microwave Prototyping
摘要： In this paper, a frequency-dependent implicit space mapping method is proposed for the prototyping of wideband microwave device. In the proposed method, frequency-dependent mapping is established between the fabricated device and a fast surrogate model. In this way, the practical variance of electromagnetic properties in a wide frequency range can be properly approximated. The parameter extraction process fabrication can be becomes more reliable, significantly reduced. To verify the proposed method, a wide-band impedance transformer is fabricated and tested as an example. The testing results achieve design specification within only two fabrications.
关键词： space mapping,microwave design,optimization
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Heat transfer model of a 50 kW solar receiver-reactor for thermochemical redox cycling using cerium dioxide
摘要： This work reports on the development of a transient heat transfer model of a solar receiver-reactor designed for thermochemical redox cycling by temperature and pressure swing of pure cerium dioxide in the form of a reticulated porous ceramic (RPC). In the first, endothermal, step the cerium dioxide RPC is directly heated with concentrated solar radiation to 1500 °C while under vacuum pressure of less than 10 mbar, thereby releasing oxygen from its crystal lattice. In the subsequent, exothermic, step the reactor is re-pressurized with carbon dioxide as it cools, and at temperatures below 1000 °C the partially reduced cerium dioxide is re-oxidized with a flow of carbon dioxide. To analyze the performance of the solar reactor and to gain insight into improved design and operational conditions, a transient heat transfer model of the solar reactor for a solar radiative input power of 50 kW during the reduction step was developed and implemented in ANSYS CFX. The numerical model couples the incoming concentrated solar radiation using Monte-Carlo ray tracing, incorporates the reduction chemistry by assuming thermodynamic equilibrium, and accounts for internal radiation heat transfer inside the porous ceria by applying effective heat transfer properties. The model was experimentally validated using data acquired in a high-flux solar simulator, where temperature evolution and oxygen production results from model and experiment agreed well. The numerical results indicate the prominent influence of solar radiative input power, where increasing it substantially reduces reduction time of the cerium dioxide structure. Consequently, the model predicts a solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency of > 6% at a solar radiative power input of 50 kW; efficiency > 10% can be obtained provided the RPC macro porosity is substantially increased and better volumetric absorption and uniform heating is achieved. Managing the ceria surface temperature during reduction to avoid sublimation is a critical design consideration for direct absorption solar receiver-reactors.
关键词： design optimization,reactor modelling,ceria,thermochemical cycles,solar energy,reticulated porous ceramic
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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[IEEE 2019 International Workshop on Fiber Optics in Access Networks (FOAN) - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019.9.2-2019.9.4)] 2019 International Workshop on Fiber Optics in Access Networks (FOAN) - Integrated Design and Realization of 400-Gb/s Optical Transceivers
摘要： Co-simulation of photonic and electronic circuits accounting for laser dynamics and circuit parasitic is developed to optimize ultrahigh-speed optical transmitters. Excellent signal quality is obtained for both 28- and 56-Gb/s multi-channel optical transceivers.
关键词： EML,integrated design optimization,400-Gb/s optical transceiver
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Techno-economic uncertainty quantification and robust design optimization of a directly coupled photovoltaic-electrolyzer system
摘要： To solve the problem of large time shifts between renewable energy supply and user demand, power-to-H2 is a well-known option. In this framework, previous studies have shown that the direct coupling of a photovoltaic array with an electrolyzer stack is a viable solution. However, these studies assumed perfectly known operating parameters to optimize the setup. Moreover, they focused on maximizing hydrogen and minimizing the energy loss, while the cost was not addressed. We have performed an optimization including uncertainty quantification (i.e. surrogate-assisted robust design optimization) for several locations with the Levelized Cost Of Hydrogen (LCOH) as objective. This paper provides the least sensitive design to uncertainties and shows which parameters are most affecting the variability of the LCOH for that design. The robust design optimization illustrates that the mean and standard deviation of the LCOH are non-conflicting objectives for the robust designs of all considered locations. The optimal robust design is established at the considered location with the highest average yearly solar irradiance, achieving a mean LCOH of 6.6 €/kg and a standard deviation of 0.72 €/kg. The discount rate uncertainty is the main contributor to the LCOH variation. Therefore, installing a PV-electrolyzer system in locations with a high average yearly solar irradiation is favorable for both the LCOH mean and standard deviation, while de-risking the technology has the highest impact on further reducing the LCOH variation. Future works will focus on including accurate probability distributions and adding batteries to the system.
关键词： Levelized cost of hydrogen,Photovoltaic-electrolyzer system,Uncertainty quantification,Robust design optimization
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22