The main objective is to provide fundamental material and packaging knowledge for supporting realisation of reliable Pressure Tolerant Power Electronic (PTPE)components and circuits for operation depths down to 5000m.
Secondary Objectives:
Identify roadmaps and possible material solutions for enabling PTPE converters up to medium voltage levels (6.6kV AC, 15kV DC)
Characterize and demonstrate alternative materials for electric insulation of PTPE
Find alternative methods for packaging of components and power circuits
Demonstrate feasible solutions by live hyperbaric experiments on components and power circuits
Strengthen the expertise and provide required facilities at SINTEF for optimizing and qualifying materials, components and complete converters
Provide guidelines for design, test and qualification of PTPE solutions, and support upgrade of prevailing standards and specifications
Accomplish one Post Doc scholarship on insulating material investigations
Key facts
Project duration
2012 - 2012
