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Design and modelling improvement of magnetic components in power electronics for aerospace applications

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PEMAG is a modelling tool for high frequency power magnetic components, namely inductors and transformers. Therefore, it is useful in a great variety of applications. It has been extensively used in the design of high frequency power supplies for most business sectors, like telecom, aerospace or medical equipment. Ansoft PEMAG and SABER MMP are the commercial versions of the Magnetic Modeling Tool developed and tested by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) since 1992. It provides accurate modelling of high frequency magnetic components for power converters, specifically Switched Mode Power Supplies for any business sector, like telecom, aerospace or medical applications. A Finite Element Analysis software (Maxwell 2D from Ansoft) is used to make energy and losses calculations in the magnetic component. They are used by PEMAG to generate accurate models, frequency dependent, for any geometry and winding strategy. The AC resistance, magnetizing and leakage energy, coupling, intra and interwinding capacitances are calculated by this modelling tool, taking into account 2D and 3D effects like interleaving, fringing flux due to the gap and end effects, among others. This tool is being used by Alcatel, Enosa, Ericsson and Tridonic. It has also been extensively used in UPM for their research and development projects for Alcatel, Siemens, Philips and Enosa. It is also being used as a test bench in Lucent Technologies. Optimised design and straight forward use of new technologies like stacked or multi-layer PCB are some of the main advantages of this modelling tool. They result in a great time and cost improvement, not only in the magnetic component but also in the whole power converter.

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