A study of Schwarz converters for nuclear powered spacecraft
- Univ. of Toledo, OH (United States)
- Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)
High power space systems which use low dc voltage, high current sources such as thermoelectric generators, will most likely require high voltage conversion for transmission purposes. This study considers the use of the Schwarz resonant converter for use as the basic building block to accomplish this low-to-high voltage conversion for either a dc or an ac spacecraft bus. The Schwarz converter has the important assets of both inherent fault tolerance and resonant operation and parallel operation in modular form is possible. A regulated dc spacecraft bus requires only a single stage converter while a constant frequency ac bus requires a cascaded Schwarz converter configuration. If the power system requires constant output power from the dc generator, then a second converter is required to route unneeded power to a ballast load.
- Research Organization:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI03-86SF16310
- OSTI ID:
- 10181602
- Report Number(s):
- NASA-TM-89911; AIAA-87-9314; CONF-870804-52; ON: DE94051237; TRN: 94:008345
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 22. intersociety energy conversion engineering conference,Philadelphia, PA (United States),10-14 Aug 1987; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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