July 3rd – 13.00 – 14.00 hrs (online via Microsoft Teams)
On the 3rd of July we will host an online lunchsession where Ibrahim Diab and Dhanashree Ganeshpure (former TU Delft) will present their promotion researches. Underneath you will find a brief introduction of the research projects and speakers.
Ibrahim Diab
Title: Transportation grids as sustainable, multi-functional, and multi-stakeholder infrastructures: An Arnhem trolleybus grid case study
Summary of presentation:
The sustainable future is electric, and on that path, grid congestion is now proving to be a serious bottleneck for new electrification projects. However, the urban environment is filled with already existing, high-power, oversized, and underutilized electrical infrastructures: the public transport traction grids. With a case study of the trolleybus grid of Arnhem, a traction grid is rethought as a flexible backbone to the city’s grid. This is achieved with the integration of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, third-party electric vehicle chargers, and residential households. All this is done while taking care to design the suitable power managements schemes to keep the traction grid suitable for a reliable operation of its main load: the bus fleet, which is growing in power demand and sophistication.
Biography:
Ibrahim Diab received his BE in Mechanical Engineering (2012) from the American University of Beirut, and his MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology (2017, honors) from the Delft University of Technology. After two years of work on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at the DCE&S group of the TU Delft, he did his PhD in Electrical Engineering (2023) on the topic of multi-functional traction grids at the same group, followed by a post-doc on the same topic using the Noord-Zuid line metro grid of Amsterdam as a case study. Since January 2024 he is an independent consultant, involved in several national and European projects on multi-functional traction grids, charging hubs, and circularity in public transport, among others.
Dhanashree Ganeshpure
Title: Design of A High Voltage Arbitrary Wave Shape Generator for Dielectric Testing
Summary of presentation:
With the massive integration of renewable energy source using power electronic devices, the high voltage grid assets are experiencing new and/or different electric stresses. Considering the limitation of the existing HV sources, this presentation introduces a new power electronic-based HV test source for generating arbitrary wave shapes. The scope of the presentation is limited to designing the HV test source for MV equipment and demonstrating its design using a modular prototype. The main content of the presentation is about the summary of test requirements for MV equipment, the choice of the power electronic converter, design trade-offs of the chosen converter topology, and scalability demonstration of the modular prototype.
Introduction:
Dhanashree received a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from BITS Pilani University, Goa, India, in 2015 and a master’s degree (with cum laude) in electrical power engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2018. In her engineering career from 2011 to 2018, she worked at various companies and research institutes such as DNV, Analog Devices, IITB, SMIT transformer, etc. She graduated with a PhD degree on the topic of Design of a High Voltage Arbitrary Wave Shape Generator for Dielectric Testing at Delft University of Technology, in January 2024.
Register
The lunchsession is free to visit for members of the EMVT – Power Electronics Community. You can register by sending an e-mail to Marc Berkouwer.