Key areas of expertise
- Power-electronics devices
- Power-electronic converters and electrical drives for high-power applications
Related Projects
- MVDC Collector Grid for Offshore Wind Farms
- Medium-Frequency High-Power DC-DC Converter
- Flexible Electrical Network (FEN)
- FVA-Nacelle
Key infrastructure/tools
- Facilites for power-electronic devices:
- Clean room
- Test-bench for characterization of power-electronics devices under normal and severe stress conditions
- 5 MW medium-voltage high-speed laboratory:
- Testing power-electronic converters and electrical drives up to 3.3 kV (ac), 5 kV (dc) and 15.000 rpm
- 5 MW medium-voltage dc-dc converter
- System-level wind-turbine test bench at the Center for Wind Power Drives
Contributions to VILLAS project
- Modelling of power-electronic converters for off-line and real-time simulation
- Developing and implementation of the control algorithm for the power-electronic converters considered in the VILLAS structure
- Development of the interface between the converter controller and the real-time simulation platform
- Analysis of the power-electronic converters behavior in the system