Friday 10 September 2021
The EPE ECCE Europe Conference brings together researchers, engineers, etc. working at the forefront of power electronics technologies. With the objective to exchange and meet fellow professionals and academics and on top of the tutorials, lecture and dialogue sessions, the organising committees propose several discussion sessions within the industrial forums.
The sessions will be open to all EPE’21 ECCE Europe Conference participants.
Industrial Forum Chairman:
Dr. Piotr DWORAKOWSKI
SuperGrid Institute
Research Group Leader
The industrial forum will be a whole day program with presentations (15 min each) and panel discussions.
Friday 10 September 2021:
Session 1 – Power Electronics Reliability and Condition Monitoring
Session 2 – Power Electronics in Energy Transition
Session 3 – Challenges of Power Electronics Control Design for Electric Vehicles
Session 4 – Green Railway Traction Systems
Time slot (CET):
09:00 – 10:30
11:00 – 12:30
14:00 – 15:30
16:00 – 17:30
Channel:
Channel 1
Channel 2
Channel 1
Channel 2
Industrial Forum - Session I: Power Electronics Reliability and Condition Monitoring
Session chairman: Prof. Huai WANG, Aalborg University, Denmark
Channel 1: 09:00 – 10:30
Agenda:
- “Towards Anti-fragility in Power Electronics”
Dr. Julio BRANDELERO, Senior Researcher, Mitsubishi Electric Research Center Europe, France
- “Understanding and Exploiting the Value of Condition Monitoring in Power Converters”
Dr. Jorge GONCALVES, Product Manager, Amantys Power Electronics, UK
- “Reliability of SiC MOSFET in high power applications”
Dr. Besar ASLLANI, R&D engineer, SuperGrid Institute, France
- “Power Electronics Reliability in Railway Traction: Towards system resilience”
Michel PITON, R&D Program Manager – Master Expert Power Electronics, Alstom, France
Industrial Forum - Session II: Power Electronics in Energy Transition
Session chairman: Dr. Piotr DWORAKOWSKI, SuperGrid Institute, France
Channel 2: 11:00 – 12:30
Agenda:
- “Innovation in power electronics: a new age powered by interlinked applications including renewables, energy storage, charging infrastructure and more…”
Dr. Milan ROSINA, Yole Développement, France
- “Power supplies development for ITER nuclear fusion power plant”
Hong SHEN, Power Conversion Engineer and Dr. Thomas LAGIER, Power Electronics Engineer, ITER, France
- “Medium frequency transformer for MVDC converters – challenges in insulation and power loss measurement”
Martin GUILLET, Research group leader, SuperGrid Institute, France
- “Solid State Transformers: Challenges and Applications”
Dr. Ilknur COLAK, Head of Power Electronics R&D, Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen, Germany
Panelists in this forum will present for 10-15 minutes followed by a moderated Q&A session.
Industrial Forum - Session III: Challenges of Power Electronics Control Design for Electric Vehicles
This industry forum brings together practitioners and experts to discuss the challenges of developing power electronics control systems for electric vehicles.
Projections of electric vehicle (EV) sales are difficult to predict, but most analysts estimate EV units will number in the 100’s of millions by 2030. These projections are not exclusive to passenger vehicles and include 2 and 3 wheelers and light- and heavy-duty trucks. The powertrains of these EV’s are built on known and understood electric motor and electricity storage technology. However, vehicle range is a main concern with consumers looking for the same or better driving distance as their combustion engine cousins.
Power electronics control design is a major determinant in the efficiency and range of electric vehicles. Unlike industrial systems with continuous electricity supply, electric vehicles depend on the finite supply or a battery or fuel cell system. Some of the challenges of controlling power electronics in powertrain systems include:
- Controlling current from the inverter to the motor for quick, smooth acceleration and maximum torque per amp
- Capturing electricity from regenerative breaking
- Regulating switching power electronics to control heat build-up
- Testing controllers against real operating and fault conditions
- Developing control strategies beyond field-oriented control
- Controlling various kinds of motors, induction, SRM, IPMSM
Session chairmen: Pablo ROMERO CUMBRERAS and Tony LENNON, MathWorks
Channel 1: 14:00 – 15:30
Agenda:
- “Testing BMS on Hardware-in-the-Loop, with a focus on battery states’ estimations robustness”
Dr. Marc LUCEA, R&D BMS Manager, Leclanché
- “Controlling current from the inverter to the motor for quick, smooth acceleration and maximum torque per amp”
Keloth PRADEEP KUMAR, Technical leader Hybrid Power Train, Bosch
- “DC/DC 48V”
Dr. Daniel PATRASCU, Senior System Engineer for Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Vitesco
- “Interlock Times in High-Voltage IGBT Inverters”
Dr. Sabin CARPIUC, Senior Physical Modeling Engineer, MathWorks - “Accelerating EV powertrain development with Model-Based Design”
Dr. Carlos VILLEGAS, Electrification Industry Manager, Speedgoat
- “Electric vehicle charging according to standard IEC62196 – mode 3”
Juliano GRIGULO, Application Engineer, Typhoon HIL
Panelists in this forum will present for 10-15 minutes followed by a moderated Q&A session.
Industrial Forum - Session IV: Green Railway Traction Systems
Session Chairman: Koen DE GUSSEME, Infrabel – Substations & Power Distribution
Channel 2: 16:00 – 17:30
Agenda:
- “Traction technology for Battery & Hydrogen Trains – a contribution to green Mobility”
Dr. Markus BÖHM, Platform & Project Manager, Siemens Mobility H2 Team, Siemens Mobility, Germany - “Design of Fuel Cell powered Traction Chains for Railway Application”
Thomas HUGGENBERGER, ABB, Switzerland
Panelists in this forum will present for 10-15 minutes followed by a moderated Q&A session.
