by Wai Keung Mo, Kasper M.Paasch and Thomas Ebel Centre for Industrial Electronics, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark presented by W.K.Mo at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 4.2. INTRODUCTION Low Voltage DC Distribution (LVDC) distribution is an innovative method to the public electricity distribution. Because the customers in the LVDC system are supplied with customer-end inverters...

by Vlasta Sedlakova, Josef Sikula, Jiri Majzner, Petr Sedlak CEITEC, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic presented by V.Sedlakova at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 3.4. Abstract Degradation of supercapacitor (SC) is evaluated during aging tests. Continuous current cycling for 100% energy and 75% energy and discontinuous cycling for 75% energy, respectively, was performed on two different types...

by Luca Primavesi (1) and Saverio Latorrata (2) 1) Itelcond, Settimo Milanese, Italy 2) Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy presented by L.Primavesi at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 3.3. Abstract The aim of this work is to estimate the expected lifetime of a capacitor without basing reliability evaluation just on handbook based predictions. This approach is meant to overtake...

by Y. Freeman, P. Lessner, E. Jones; KEMET Electronics presented by Ed Jones at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 3.2. Commercial space constellations are an example of the increasing share of the space applications looking for more affordable electronics According to selecting traditional space parts under MIL SPEC not only increases cost, but also leads to older technologies and...

by: Dr. Leo Farhat and Dr. Denis Lacombe; ESA ESTEC; The Netherlands presented by D.Lacombe at the 2nd PCNS 10-13th September 2019, Bucharest, Romania as paper 3.1. ABSTRACT More and more space missions are or are willing to use COTS EEE parts in their projects. Several working group in ESA and outside of ESA are trying to define a standardise way to procure such...