Geothermal Energy with Tokamak Plasma Testing Author: Dr. Nancy M Landreville Thursday, October 12, 2023 at Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ - Electrical Engineering Building, Room 240. Starting at 6:30 pm for social and 7:00 Speaker. The presenter will be providing virtually. Speaker(s): Nancy Landreville, Agenda: Visitors to the University can park in Lot 48 between the hours of 6:00am-2:00am on the Busch Campus across from the Visitors Center at no cost. Visitors are defined by the University as persons not affiliated with Rutgers University. Use of this lot by any current student will result in one or more citations. If a visitor would like to park in other areas of the University, they must purchase a permission from the Department of Transportation Services using the link below, for the cost of $5.00 a day, plus sales tax. https://ipo.rutgers.edu/dots/permits/visitor-parking Room: 240, Bldg: Electrical Engineering Building, Rutgers University - Bush Campus, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

While the field of power electronics is trending towards designs with higher power densities, aerospace applications have had difficulties achieving terrestrial metrics due to limitations on reliability and radiation hardened components. In the most recent New Frontiers, Dragonfly (DF), a rotocraft system which is being designed to fly on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, the electric power subsystem requires both a high reliability and a high-power-density design. This talk provides an overview on the design challenges, considerations, and preliminary results for the electrical and thermal management systems of the rotor drive inverter which transitions power from the battery to the motors. Additional design considerations for high-reliability space applications will also be discussed. Agenda: Social: 6:30 PM Presentation: 7 pm (eastern time zone). The meeting link will be emailed to on-line attendees on October 11. Formerly Westinghouse Energy Center, 4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States, 15146, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/374563