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ORLANDO, Fla.(March 19, 2007) -- Advanced Power Electronics Corp. (APECOR) was recently awarded two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to develop highly efficient power converter for the U.S. Navy and NASA.
Adje Mensah, vice president of business development and design engineer at APECOR, said The NASA SBIR grant will fund development of integrated three-port converters for NASA to enable compact and efficient power management.
The converter design has the potential to integrate source control, distribution, storage control and load regulation electronics into a single modular structure. The integrated design will help solve the increasing weight and space challenges of traditional power management systems on spacecrafts.
The proposed power electronic architecture also has potential for commercial applications where a steady continuous power source is not available such as traffic lights in remote areas, mobile chargers for laptops, cellular phones and future solar powered electric homes and vehicles to name a few, he said. Work on the $100,000 contract has already started and should be completed in July 2007
The Navy SBIR grant is funding APECOR’s development of a low-cost, high efficiency, high-density, digitally-control DC-DC power converter for U.S. Navy sonobuoys. The goal is to integrate the unique non-explosive based power converter designs into the sonobuoy the Navy is developing for analyzing undersea warfare environment.
The converter has the potential to be used in other markets involving photomultiplier tube drivers, explosive detonators, and ion pumps to name a few. Mensah said the research and development phase of the Navy SBIR contract, valued at $100,000, is slated to be completed in June 2007.
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For more information, contact
Adje Mensah, Vice President / Business Development, APECOR, 407.275.1174
Tom O’Neal or Carol Ann Dykes, UCF Technology Incubator, 407.882.0202
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, LV Communications Inc. 407.644.4142.
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About APECOR
Advanced Power Electronics Corporation (APECOR) carries out research and development in the area of power electronics. In partnership with the University of Central Florida, APECOR has been developing high-efficiency low-voltage high-current DC/DC voltage regulator modules, hard-switching and soft-switching DC/DC converters, DSP control methods, switched-capacitor DC/DC converter, DSP based distributed power system (DPS), current sharing techniques, dynamic modeling of switching mode power supplies, soft-switching techniques, low cost high efficiency AC/DC power supply with power factor correction, low cost low voltage AC/DC power supply with power factor correction, and single-stage single-switch hard-switching and soft-switching power factor corrected AC/DC converters. For more information, visit www.apecor.com.
About the UCF Technology Incubator
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Technology Incubator has helped more than 80 emerging technology companies create over $200 million in annual revenues and more than 700 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. As a result of this success, the UCF Technology Incubator was recently named the 2004 Technology Incubator of the Year by the National Business Incubation Association. Headquartered in Research Park near the University, the Incubator is a true collaboration in economic development between UCF, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council and the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission. For more information, please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu. |
