Power Electronics for Medium Voltage Distribution Networks

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Distribution utilities are under pressure to accommodate distributed energy generation, solar, electric vehicles, and other unconventional or bi-directional "loads". These varying loads create voltage quality problems at the medium voltage level not easily corrected with conventional voltage regulators, switched cap banks, etc.

AMSC has developed a power electronic device (D-VAR VVO) that connects directly to the medium voltage distribution grid (without a transformer) for the correction of voltage quality problems. The D-VAR VVO can be sited anywhere a voltage regulator can, and can be installed by utility line crews.

That said, practitioners of power electronics and electric power engineering bring different sets of ideas and expectations to product features, usability, reliability, etc. The technical features of the D-VAR VVO will be introduced and serve to motivate stories and surprises from the VVO product.


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  • Date: 21 Oct 2019
  • Time: 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-06:00) CST6CDT
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  • 1415 Engineering Drive
  • Madison, Wisconsin
  • United States 53706
  • Building: Engineering Hall
  • Room Number: 2534
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  • Starts 06 October 2019 12:00 PM
  • Ends 20 October 2019 06:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-06:00) CST6CDT
  • No Admission Charge
  • Menu: Pizza with meat, Pizza without meat

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Patrick Flannery Patrick Flannery

Topic:

Power Electronics for Medium Voltage Distribution Networks

Biography:

Patrick Flannery is the Director of Research Engineering at AMSC (American Superconductor). He has been with AMSC since late 2008 where he has worked on low and medium voltage power electronics hardware and control systems applied to utility scale wind turbines and STATCOMs. Notable projects include the development of advanced embedded control platforms, leading the LVRT certification testing of several MW-class wind turbines, and leading the development of AMSC's VVO STATCOM product.

He was a Senior Engineer with Soft Switching Technologies (now part of Rockwell Automation) in 2008.

From 1998 to 2001, he worked as an embedded systems and electro-mechanical engineer with CSA Engineering on active vibration cancellation systems.

Patrick has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (1998), and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003, 2008).




Agenda

17:30 Pizza and networking

18:00 Presentation