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22/09/2020 – Powered by direct current

DC smart grids for production halls

Most production plants today are still powered by alternating current. In the long term, however, research teams from the Fraunhofer Institutes for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB would like to see industrial manufacturing shift to operating with direct current.

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Electronic power converters and a stationary battery storage system at Fraunhofer IISB. Work on the main distribution neutral unit for the DC test grid at Fraunhofer IISB. © © Fraunhofer/Bernd Müller

 
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The DC Laboratory at Fraunhofer IPA tests components for converting production plants to direct current. Electronic power converters and a stationary battery storage system at Fraunhofer IISB. © © Fraunhofer IPA/Rainer Bez

 
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Work on the main distribution neutral unit for the DC test grid at Fraunhofer IISB. © © Fraunhofer IISB/Kurt Fuchs

 
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Electronic power converters and a stationary battery storage system at Fraunhofer IISB. Work on the main distribution neutral unit for the DC test grid at Fraunhofer IISB. © © Fraunhofer/Bernd Müller

 
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