Power management components

Technologically it is important that smart battery packages, featuring power management by electronic devices within the battery package, are becoming a necessity due to the sensitive charging characteristics of Li and Ni-MeHy batteries, it should be noted that the same principles at a fraction of the cost have been successfully applied realized by simple reversal protection and overflow components by the low-cost RAM batteries. 

The main issues of hybrid propulsion systems are discussed in this chapter, drawing attention to basic characteristics of power train components and aspects of energy management within each hybrid configuration. The main characteristics of electric drives are described in Sect. 5.2, different types of electric energy storage systems are analyzed in Sect. 5.3 and Sect. 5.4, while different configurations of hybrid electric vehicles are discussed in Sect. 5.5, with particular reference to fuel cell propulsion systems (Sect. 5.5.4). 

In this section, a set of elementary structures is investigated. These components are essentially embedded in more complex electromagnetic compatibility devices (EMC) devices regarding microwave instrumentations, miniaturized packaging layouts in communication ensembles, power managing tools, and biomedical systems for the estimation of hazardous health effects. Since, their profile may lead to complicated field patterns, it is anticipated that HO FDTD operators will provide the most sufficient results. 

IAEA, Methodology for the Management of Ageing of Nuclear Power Plant Components Important for Safety, International Atomic Energy Agency, 1992. 

Probabilistic safety assessment for optimum nuclear power plant life management (PLiM) Theory and application of reliability analysis methods for major power plant components... 

Enova Systems [38] has developed and markets a suite of HybridPower drives and related power conversion and management components for series and parallel hybrid and... 

In contrast to lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion battery systems have always an integrated battery management, which has to be able to communicate with the power electronic components (battery inverter, charge controller) and the supervisory energy management system. Therefore, the power electronic components have to provide an appropriate interface. Furthermore, the internal battery management of the battery inverter or the charge controller, which is used for lead-acid batteries or nickel based batteries, has to be deactivated. 

Figure 10.7 Schematic of the interactive components within a power management platform apphed when ntUizing energy from an underwater MFC.

Component sizing and the power manag ent strategy are two main factors that affect the performance of the hybrid system and their optimization is usually done through multiple-parameter modeling [16]. The modeling parameters take into the account the individual characteristics of each power source and the requested load profile scenarios and allow for simultaneous optimization of all the hybrid component outputs/size. 

IAEA TECDOC-1025. Assessment and management of ageing of major nuclear power plant components important to safety concrete containment buildings, June 1998. 

Management of Ageing of Major Nuclear Power Plant Components Important to Safety Steam Generators, IAEA-TECDOC-981, IAEA, Vienna (1997). 

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