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High Temperature Nano-composite Film Capacitors for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W56HZV-09-C-0147
Agency Tracking Number: A082-154-1080
Amount: $119,969.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A08-154
Solicitation Number: 2008.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2009-03-01
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-09-01
Small Business Information
3921 Academy Parkway North, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
United States
DUNS: 055145320
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Lew Bragg
 Senior Staff Engineer
 (505) 342-4440
 lbragg@tplinc.com
Business Contact
 Trista Mosman
Title: Marketing Coordinator
Phone: (505) 342-4439
Email: tmosman@tplinc.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

qFuture ground vehicles for Army applications are envisioned to use hybrid electric propulsion. Hybrid electric vehicles will require electrical power systems which are more compact and more efficient than those used in current vehicles. Power converters are being developed to fit this requirement, operating at high frequencies to reduce the size of passive components such as capacitors and inductors. DC bus capacitors for these converters are a major consumer of available volume in present designs. Reduction in the size of DC bus capacitors for power converters would be highly desirable, while still providing high temperature (up to 200¢XC) and high frequency (greater than 60 kHz) ripple current capability, and maintaining efficiency, reliability, and service life. TPL will develop a novel nano-composite dielectric film and capacitor technology that is compact, fault-tolerant and withstands the operating temperature and ripple current requirements for the Army¡¦s envisioned hybrid electric vehicle. TPL has extensive experience in the development of nano-composite material systems for advanced dielectric properties and associated high performance capacitors. The capacitor is projected to have a packaged specific capacitance > 1.2 ƒÝF/cm3, an operating temperature range of -40 to +200 „aC and adapt easily to converter circuits and cooling systems.

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