2023 Tsinghua – Zhejiang University Joint Seminar on Advanced Power Electronics
On June 20th, 2023, the 2023 Tsinghua – Zhejiang University joint seminar on advanced power electronics was successfully held. This joint seminar was organized by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Student Branch Chapters of Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University. Five renowned scholars in the field of power electronics, both domestic and international, have been invited to give special lectures to the students. The conference adopts a hybrid format, combining online and offline participation. Students from Tsinghua University can join the seminar in person, while the guest speakers can participate in person or online.
At the commencement of the seminar, Professor Kai Sun, Assistant to the Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, and Professor Yongheng Yang, Vice Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University, delivered opening speeches. They highlighted the remarkable collaboration in academic research and talent development between the two departments, including activities such as academic conferences, personnel exchange visits, course offerings, and joint student training. Their opening remarks expressed high anticipation for the success of this joint seminar.
In the keynote speech section of the seminar, Prof. Khurram Afridi from Cornell University gave a speech entitled "Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicle", introducing latest research results of wireless charging of electric vehicle, and introducing the dynamic wireless charging technology, showing analysis, comparison with conventional methods, and applications of the new dynamic technology.
Prof. Fei Teng from Imperial College London gave a speech entitled "Operation of Future Power Systems with High Penetration of IBRs: A Stability-constrained Optimization Approach", introducing the challenges in high inverter based resources (IBR)-penetrated systems and a stability-constrained optimization approach to minimize operation cost while maintain stability.
Prof. Chi-Seng Lam from University of Macau gave a speech entitled "Fundamentals of Grid-Connected Power Converters in Power Quality Compensation", introducing the current power quality issues, impacts and standards, and introcuding the development and recent research trends of active power filters for power quality compensation.
Prof. Shuai Shao from t Zhejiang University gave a speech entitled "High Density Medium Voltage DC Transformer based on Series-connected SiC MOSFETs", introducing the difficulties and research progress on high density medium voltage DC transformers, and introducing the active clamping method to balance the series-connected SiC MOSFETs.
Prof. Lu Qu from Tsinghua University gave a speech entitled "Research and Application of Key Technologies for Large Capacity DC Breaking", introducing the challenges and recent research trends of large capacity DC breaking, and introducing key technologies including high reliability and fast commutation, series voltage balancing, parallele current balancing, etc.
This joint seminar offered a good communication platform for faculty, students, and members of IEEE PELS China from both universities. Over 100 individuals actively participated in the seminar, either through Zoom meetings or in person. The joint seminar played a pivotal role in enhancing inter-school communication and fostering the advancement of power electronics science and technology.
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- Tsinghua University
- Haidian District
- Beijing, Beijing
- China 100084
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- Co-sponsored by IEEE PELS Zhejiang University SBC
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Dynamic Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicle
Khurram Afridi is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Caltech, and SM and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. His research interests are in power electronics and energy systems incorporating power electronic controls. His experience includes positions at CU Boulder, MIT, LUMS, Techlogix, Schlumberger, Philips, Lutron, and NASA JPL. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He has received Caltech’s Carnation Merit Award, the BMW Scientific Award, the LUMS Werner-von-Siemens Chair, Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He holds twenty-two US patents and is co-author of seven IEEE prize papers.
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Operation of Future Power Systems with High Penetration of IBRs: A Stability-constrained Optimization Approach
Dr Fei Teng received BEng from Beihang University (BUAA), China in 2009 and PhD from Imperial College London in 2015. He is currently the Director of Education in the Energy Futures Lab, a pan-university hub promoting inter-disciplinary research in energy, and a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. He holds visiting positions at MINES ParisTech, France and PolyU, Hong Kong. His research focuses on the power system operation with high penetration of Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs) and the cyber-resiliency of digitalised power grids. He is the editor of IEEE Transactions of Power Systems and IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. He serves as Members-at-Large at IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems and IEEE Technical Committee on Carbon Neutrality. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from IEEE Transaction on Power Systems, IEEE TC-SDM Early Career Award and the Royal Society Kan Tong Po International Fellowship. He has authored more than 80 scientific publications in leading power system journals and conferences. His research has been funded by EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, Research England, the Royal Society, EDF Energy, Hitachi Energy, and National Grid ESO.
Fundamentals of Grid-Connected Power Converters in Power Quality Compensation
Chi-Seng Lam received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Macau (UM), Macao, China, in 2012. He completed the Clare Hall Study Programme at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 2019.
In 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He is currently an Associate Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI and the Institute of Microelectronics, UM, and also with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, UM. He has coauthored or co-edited four books and more than 170 technical journals and conference papers. He holds six U.S. and five Chinese patents. His research interests include power quality compensators, photovoltaic system, power management integrated circuits, and wireless power transfer.
Dr. Lam was the recipient or co-recipient of the IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2016, and the Macao Science and Technology Invention Award (Third Class and Second Class) in 2014 and 2018, respectively. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Macau IES Chapter and the Secretary of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Power Electronics. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, and the IEEE Access. He was awarded 2021 IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor.
High Density Medium Voltage DC Transformer based on Series-connected SiC MOSFETs
Shuai Shao received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 2015. Joining the College of Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University as a lecturer in 2015, he was promoted to the position of an Associate Professor in January 2020. His research interests include power device series-connection, DC transformers, and current transducers. He has authored and co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, placing him among the top 2% of the most-cited scholars in the field of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 2022. He serves as the principal investigator for several nationally-funded research projects, as well as industry-collaborative projects with companies such as Southern Power Grid, Huawei, Delta Electronics, and Lite-On. He is also the co-founder of the Power Management Innovation Consortium and has been awarded the Zhejiang Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award.
Research and Application of Key Technologies for Large Capacity DC Breaking
Lu QU is Associate Researcher of Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. His research interests include DC grid and its core equipment. He is responsible for or participated in 6 National Key R&D Plan Projects and National Natural Science Foundation projects. He successfully developed the world's first set of three-port DC circuit breaker and other types of DC circuit breaker, and applied them to DC grid projects such as Zhangbei and Zhuhai. He published over 50 papers , authorized over 40 patents. He participated in the preparation of 3 Chinese monographs and 2 English monograph. He also participated in drafting one national standard, 8 industrial standards. He has been awarded IET E&T Innovation Awards, one provincial-level technology award, and so on. He serves as a member of the Technical Committee for Standardization of Low Voltage DC Equipment and Systems in the Energy Industry.