Renewable Energy

November 2019

Medical Blueline Power Range from 5-60W External Adapters

Medical Blueline Power Range from 5-60W External Adapters

Meeting both DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2 efficiency requirements, the five Blueline models are UL approved and cover power ratings from 5W to 60W. They are certified to EN 60601-1 medical safety and EMC specifications. Safety features include overvoltage and short-circuit protection, LED status indicator, and 4000VAC/570

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11/27/2019

High power density 15A/50W output digital PoL regulator

High power density 15A/50W output digital PoL regulator

The new module provides up to 15A/50W at an adjustable output voltage of 0.6-3.3V, which equates to a 25% higher current and power delivery at 3.3V than the previous 12A maximum for that voltage. The input voltage range of the device is 4.5V to 14V. The higher output is in response to customer demands, offering increased cu

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11/27/2019

New Compact 36W, 60W and 90W DIN-Rail Mini Power Supplies

New Compact 36W, 60W and 90W DIN-Rail Mini Power Supplies

Three new 24VDC output DIN-Rail power supplies have been added to the range; PIM36 (36W - coming soon), PIM60 (60W) and PIM90 (90W). The new PIANO Mini (PIM) power supplies free-up space in industrial automation, machines or control panels to offer more flexible system planning. The PIM90 a 90W DIN-Rail power sup

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11/27/2019

Components Bureau Adds Artesyn to Its Power Portfolio

Components Bureau Adds Artesyn to Its Power Portfolio

This new agreement is part of the company’s strategy to expand its power product portfolio and build on its already established specialist power franchises. Artesyn has a broad power offering with products from 3W to hundreds of kW. These products will add an exhaustive range of high power modular and prog

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11/27/2019

FN 2580 power line EMC Filter Family for Lighting Equipment

FN 2580 power line EMC Filter Family for Lighting Equipment

The filter can be used in typical single-phase applications (120 VAC and 230 VAC). Or industrial applications when utilizing phase to neutral voltage off three phase power. Example: 480 VAC P-P / 277 VAC P-N and 600 VAC P-P / 347VAC P-N. The new parts are very compact and are designed specifically for lighting ap

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11/27/2019

Analog Devices Acquires Test Motors

Analog Devices Acquires Test Motors

Based in Barcelona, Spain, Test Motors offers products and services that detect faults in electric motors before they cause damage to production cycles and advises on how and when to repair them. The acquisition expands ADI’s portfolio of condition-based monitoring solutions capable of identifying equipment fault

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11/27/2019

40V, 2.2MHz Synchronous Buck Converters

40V, 2.2MHz Synchronous Buck Converters

The MOSFETs provide point-of-load (PoL) solutions with a continuous output current of either 3.5A or 5A. The devices feature proprietary gate driver technology, delivering superior EMI performance in step-down DC-DC conversion for consumer, industrial, networking, and automotive applications. The AP64350, AP

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11/27/2019

TEN 40E & TEN 40WIE Series – New 40 Watt DC/DC converters

TEN 40E & TEN 40WIE Series – New 40 Watt DC/DC converters

Driven by current market trends these series were developed to maximize quality and cost efficiency in one product. Due to a new design approach the TEN 40E and TEN 40WIE thus offer a cost efficient solution with not only no concession on quality or reliability but even improved specifications compared to their p

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11/27/2019

RS Components adds high-voltage regulated DC power supplies

RS Components adds high-voltage regulated DC power supplies

Aimed primarily at electronic engineers designing IT equipment for industrial, instrumentation and transportation applications, TRI Series power converters combine a sophisticated reinforced isolation system, able to withstand high test voltages, with high common-mode transient immunity. The TRI Series offers fi

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11/27/2019

Infineon adds industrial-grade CoolGaN devices

Infineon adds industrial-grade CoolGaN devices

The CoolGaN 400 V device (IGT40R070D1 E8220) is tailored for premium HiFi audio systems where end users demand every detail of their high resolution sound tracks. These have been conventionally addressed by bulky linear or tube amplifiers. With the CoolGaN 400 V switch as class D output stage, audio designers

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11/27/2019

High-Side Load Switch with True Reverse Current Blocking

High-Side Load Switch with True Reverse Current Blocking

Single-channel high-side load switches provide an effective way of applying or removing power to a load, particularly to removable peripherals powered through a USB port. The large output capacitors (100µF) associated with the USB port and self-powered USB peripherals create the possibility that the load switch may

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11/27/2019

Microchip delivers up to 90 W over Ethernet wiring

Microchip delivers up to 90 W over Ethernet wiring

This development eases the transition to using IEEE 802.3bt-2018-compliant PoE injectors and midspans for users, and Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) chipsets for system developers. As the industry adopts the latest generation of PoE technology for managing data and power over a single Ethernet cable, users f

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11/27/2019

Low profile open frame OVC III certified power supplies

Benefiting from the latest power switching technologies, the LHA150F is 30% smaller and gains up to 4.5 efficiency points compared to the previous LFA150F, whilst the more powerful LHA300F gains up to 6 points of efficiency and is 50% smaller than the LFA300F. In addition to higher efficiency, by using an LLC r

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11/27/2019

Grain from Breweries Could be Converted into Fuel for Homes

Grain from Breweries Could be Converted into Fuel for Homes

Queen's University Belfast

A Queen's University Belfast researcher has developed a low cost technique to convert left over barley from alcohol breweries into carbon, which could be used as a renewable fuel for homes in winter, charcoal for summer barbecues or water filters in developing countries. Breweries in the EU throw out around

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11/26/2019

Clear, Conductive Coating Could Protect Advanced Solar Cells

Clear, Conductive Coating Could Protect Advanced Solar Cells

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT researchers have improved on a transparent, conductive coating material, producing a tenfold gain in its electrical conductivity. When incorporated into a type of high-efficiency solar cell, the material increased the cell's efficiency and stability. The new findings are reported in the journal Science Ad

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11/24/2019

Saving the Planet by Improving Energy Storage

Nanomaterials will be key components for enabling wearable technology, according to an international team of researchers whose comprehensive report on the future of the field was published in science this week.

Saving the Planet by Improving Energy Storage

Drexel University

The challenge of building an energy future that preserves and improves the planet is a massive undertaking. But it all hinges on the charged particles moving through invisibly small materials. Scientists and politicians have recognized the need for an urgent and substantial shift in the world's mechanisms of energy

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11/22/2019

Largest Lithium-Ion Energy Storage System in the Nordics

Largest Lithium-Ion Energy Storage System in the Nordics

The Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) energy storage system (ESS) will support frequency regulation at a 21 megawatt (MW) wind farm in northwestern Finland. It will also optimize the wind power, as well as provide backup and black start capabilities. The Li-Ion ESS, the largest in the Nordic countries, is sized to provide a

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11/21/2019

Nexperia Launches High-efficiency GaN FET

Nexperia Launches High-efficiency GaN FET

The GAN063-650WSA features a low RDS(on) - down to 60 mΩ - and fast switching to offer very high efficiency. Nexperia is targeting high performance application segments including xEV, datacentres, telecom infrastructure, industrial automation and high-end power supplies. Nexperia’s GaN-on-silicon proces

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11/21/2019

ASU Collects 5 Solar Awards in Latest Round of DOE Funding

A gallium arsenide wafer cleaved in half using a Sonic Wafering technology developed in the Defect Engineering for Energy Conversion Technologies (DEfECT) Lab at ASU.

ASU Collects 5 Solar Awards in Latest Round of DOE Funding

Arizona State University

Arizona State University has received five prestigious Department of Energy awards totaling $9.8 million in this year's Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) awards to advance solar energy research and development. Overall SETO funding for fiscal year 2019 totaled $128 million for 75 projects designed to "l

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11/18/2019

Lehigh Engineers Design More Efficient Tidal Turbine

Arindam Banerjee and his Turbulent Flow Design Group are studying different fairing shapes in a water tunnel facility located at Lehigh University's Packard Laboratory.

Lehigh Engineers Design More Efficient Tidal Turbine

Imagine a single tidal turbine capable of powering a community of 50 to 70 homes all year long. That's the potential of turbines being developed by Verdant Power, which builds marine energy systems that harness power generated from currents. Turbines whose design is currently being refined by researchers at Lehigh

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11/14/2019

Ben-Gurion U Solar Power Generator Headed to Space Station

A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States, will be deployed on the first 2020 NASA flight launch to the International Space Station.

Ben-Gurion U Solar Power Generator Headed to Space Station

American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States, will be deployed on the first 2020 NASA flight launch to the International Space Station. According to research published in Optics Express, the compact, microconcentrator photovoltaic system could provide unprece

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11/14/2019

Scientists Design new Grid Batteries for Renewable Energy

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed an affordable flow battery membrane for the electric grid from a new class of polymers called AquaPIM.

Scientists Design new Grid Batteries for Renewable Energy

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

How do you store renewable energy so it's there when you need it, even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing? Giant batteries designed for the electrical grid - called flow batteries, which store electricity in tanks of liquid electrolyte - could be the answer, but so far utilities have yet to find

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11/07/2019

Cage Molecules = Sieves for Hydrogen Isotope Separation

Cage Molecules = Sieves for Hydrogen Isotope Separation

A new hybrid material developed by scientists at the University of Liverpool may bring the dream of carbon-free nuclear fusion power a step closer. The separation of hydrogen's three isotopes (hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium) is of key importance for fusion power technology, but current technologies are both e

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11/02/2019

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