Description

As engineers most of us begin with a degree level qualification to enter the industry. Only a limited percentage of us get the real opportunities to start from text book theory into real-world engineering practice. Once we get this opportunity, if we intelligently apply simple text book theory to progress into new products and techniques, we can be very creative. Presenter, a practicing-engineer turned into an academic, has looked at the special-case of a simple capacitor becomes one million times larger than the usual. Such a supercapacitor based circuit topology supported by simple circuit theory could lead into highly creative circuit topologies with the achievement of multiple international patents, commercial projects and new products. Examples used were on the patented or patent-pending supercapacitor assisted (SCA) techniques such as SCALDO, SCASA, SCATMA, SCAHDI and SCABER respectively applied in the areas of linear power converters, surge absorbers, temperature modification apparatus, high density inverters and brake energy recovery. Presentation was to justify how a practically oriented Sri Lankan electrical engineer can ontribute at a global level.