SBIR/STTR Research Award
Affordable Point of Use Conversion (PUC) Module for 400Hz Power System Applications
Award amount
$999,890Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IAP RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-02-04
- Contract end date
- 2017-02-04
- UEI
- WBU3RUKH8DY8
- Solicitation number
- 2013.1
- Topic code
- N131-040
Research abstract
The objective of this SBIR topic is to develop an affordable and compact Point of Use Conversion (PUC) module for 60 Hz to 400 Hz and 270 VDC power converters for shipboard applications. In phase I we demonstrated that our approach of using SiC solid state switches to increase the switching frequency in order to reduce the size, weight and cost is feasible. The feasibility was demonstrated via analysis and bench top testing. The concept design developed in Phase I showed that the size and weight of a PUC module is one third of the size and weight of current state of the art power processing modules. It also showed that the cost of a SiC based module is about one half the cost of Si Based module. The goal of the Phase II effort is to develop a prototype of a compact Point of Use Conversion (PUC) module for 60 Hz to 400 Hz power converters and a design of a compact PUC module for 60 Hz to 270 VDC power converters for naval shipboard applications with acceptable efficiency, power density and cost while eliminating the need for a separate 400 Hz distribution system.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- SiC-Based High Voltage Capacitor Charging Innovations
- Field effects in processing lightweight materials with superior mechanical properties and microstructures
- Innovative, shock-load resistant Pulsed Power supply.
- Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) Fault Detection, Localization, and Isolation
- High tap density and efficient aerosolization of anisotropic particles using dynamic methods
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low Cost, Ultra-Power Dense Point of Use Conversion System
- Affordable Point of Use Conversion (PUC) Module for 400Hz Power System Applications
Research funding history
85 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2017). Reported award amounts total $21,413,397. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation