| Source: | Pacific Northwest Laboratory |
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| Date: | 8/1/95 Record No.: 10171 |
| Contact: | Landis Kannberg, 509-375-3919; John DeSteese, 509-375-2057; John Hauer, 509-375-4340 |
Power Conversion
PNL has built and is testing a 5-kW power converter using Pulse Amplitude Synthesis Control. It promises better integration of a variety of DC generators and storage sources with diverse characteristics, making them appear as one integrated resource on the grid. (Visualize a transformer with multiple primaries and a single secondary.) The principal advantage is that the power converter is not dependent on the operation of each of the DC supplies.
They are in the process of lining up a CRADA partnership with a wind power manufacturer who only wants to license it, so other interested parties would be welcome. (DU, Distributed Utilities)
| Topics: | STORAGE |
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