Conveners
M4Or1B: Transportation Symposia V: Electronics
- Justin Scheidler (NASA Glenn Research Center)
- Chris Rey (Energy to Power Solutions)
With the substantial development underway to seek alternatives to diesel and gasoline driven propulsion for various forms of transportation, cryogenic-based platforms are receiving renewed interest for aviation, space, trucking, marine, and railway. A big reason for this is the presence of a cryogen as a fuel source that can be utilized to achieve greater electrical efficiencies in the...
The increasing electric power demand for future all-electric transportation platforms poses strong challenges to the power distribution architecture for these mobile power platforms. Compared to ambient temperature power conversion architectures, cryogenic superconducting power conversion (< 123 K) does not require higher power distribution voltage with larger conductors and is expected to...
Hybrid power generation and distributed propulsion power have been identified as candidate transformative aircraft configurations for future commercial transport vehicles with reduced fuel burn and harmful emissions. High power converters will be a key enabler for future electrified aircraft propulsion as envisioned by NASA and Boeing [1]. At the system level in aircraft applications,...
High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) cable systems are being developed for future electric ships and aircraft to support the power distribution networks capable of multi kA ampacities. HTS devices offer a high power density solution for high ampacity cables. There is increased interest in superconducting technologies because of the cryogenic cooling power of liquid hydrogen to be used as...
Clad bimetal conductors combine two diverse metals or alloys that are metallurgically bonded to achieve functional advantages that cannot be obtained with a single metal. The selection of metals or alloys to use is determined by end-use requirements such as electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties. Common clad materials consist of a core, such as aluminum, nickel, steel, or copper...
