Reference number : GC-2017-Q2-00084, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Li, Ri (The University of British Columbia), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : British Columbia|Colombie-Britannique, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Collaborative Research and Development Grants - Project, program name french : Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative - projet, program purpose english : Power converters play a key role in converting electric power to power all types of electrical loads in the world. Thermal management is essential to the reliability of power converters as excessive temperatures of the critical components such as transformers and semiconductors are the primary causes of failures in power converters. Nowadays the thermal management of power converters is becoming extremely challenging due to the increasing demand for high power density._x000D_
   Alpha Technologies Ltd. (ATL), the preeminent total power solutions provider, is planning to further increase the product reliability of their high-power-density rectifiers by replacing the active cooling with passive cooling. ATL desires a new and innovative thermal management strategy, which is mainly based on heat conduction and can maintain all components within their safe temperature limits_x000D_
   Dr. Li's Electronics Cooling & Multiphase Flows Lab and Drs. Eberle and Wang's Power Electrics Lab at UBC Okanagan will collaborate with ATL to develop the conduction-based passive cooling for ATL's power modules. The project will be conducted both experimentally and numerically. The project will involve multiphysics modeling of magnetic components and detailed thermal analyses at the levels of power module and magnetic components. Innovative concepts of thermal management will be investigated and developed to address the thermal challenges for magnetic components. The developed technology will be tested and transferred to ATL._x000D_
   The proposed project will open up great potential of applying passive-cooling thermal design in high-power-density converters. This is highly important for power industry to meet the power requirements for a variety of system applications with the highest efficiency and reliability. The project fits into Canada's agenda to support industry competitiveness as the research will enhance Canada's competitiveness in the global industry of power electronics._x000D_, program purpose french : Power converters play a key role in converting electric power to power all types of electrical loads in the world. Thermal management is essential to the reliability of power converters as excessive temperatures of the critical components such as transformers and semiconductors are the primary causes of failures in power converters. Nowadays the thermal management of power converters is becoming extremely challenging due to the increasing demand for high power density._x000D_
   Alpha Technologies Ltd. (ATL), the preeminent total power solutions provider, is planning to further increase the product reliability of their high-power-density rectifiers by replacing the active cooling with passive cooling. ATL desires a new and innovative thermal management strategy, which is mainly based on heat conduction and can maintain all components within their safe temperature limits_x000D_
   Dr. Li's Electronics Cooling & Multiphase Flows Lab and Drs. Eberle and Wang's Power Electrics Lab at UBC Okanagan will collaborate with ATL to develop the conduction-based passive cooling for ATL's power modules. The project will be conducted both experimentally and numerically. The project will involve multiphysics modeling of magnetic components and detailed thermal analyses at the levels of power module and magnetic components. Innovative concepts of thermal management will be investigated and developed to address the thermal challenges for magnetic components. The developed technology will be tested and transferred to ATL._x000D_
   The proposed project will open up great potential of applying passive-cooling thermal design in high-power-density converters. This is highly important for power industry to meet the power requirements for a variety of system applications with the highest efficiency and reliability. The project fits into Canada's agenda to support industry competitiveness as the research will enhance Canada's competitiveness in the global industry of power electronics._x000D_, agreement title english : Innovative conduction cooling for high-power-density converters, agreement title french : Innovative conduction cooling for high-power-density converters, agreement number : CRDPJ, agreement value : 78667.0, agreement start date : 2017-07-12, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2020-2021)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2020-2021)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada