Track 1 – IEEE PELS Students and Young Professionals Symposium

BOOSTING RENEWABLES AND TRANSPORTATION

Track 1 aims in boosting up the knowledge on energy and storage conversions. Track 1 bridges industry and academia with exceptional presentations on renewables and transportation. This track also opens a networking table for Students and Young Professionals to collaborate with people from industry and academia.

Date: 27-03-2021

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Time (GMT)	Session Title	Speaker	Session Room	Host
12:45 – 13:00	Welcome to SYPS 2021	Liuchen Chang	Main stage	Leonardo Bellincanta de Souza
13:00 – 13:45	New Power Electronic Interfaces for Battery Energy Storage	Prof Dan Rogers	Main stage	Nikita Sevostyanov
14:00 – 14:45	Wireless Battery Charging System-Challenges and Trends	Dr Atif Iqbal	Main stage	Umashankar Subramaniam
15:00 – 15:45	Networking Section	–	Booths/Gathertown	–
16:00 – 16:50	Lunch Break	–	Booths/Gathertown	–
17:00 – 17:45	Why Young PELS Members Must Master Magnetics	Alex Hanson	Main stage	Joseph Kozak
18:00 – 18:45	Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for microgrid application.	Tatiane Costa	Main stage	Laís Crispino Proença
18:45 – 19:00	Coffee Break	–	Booths/Gathertown	–
19:00 – 19:45	PV Integration with Energy Storage Systems	Dr Thiwanka Wijekoon	Main stage	Gayan Abeynayake
20:00 – 20:45	GaN-based fast battery charging technology for consumer electronics	Lingxiao Xue	Main stage	Joseph Kozak
20:45 – 21:00	Closing Ceremony	Leonardo Bellincanta de Souza	Main stage	Leonardo Bellincanta de Souza

SPEAKERS

Liuchen Chang’s

Guest for Opening Ceremony

Liuchen Chang’s

Guest for Opening Ceremony

Professor | University of New Brunswick | Canada Winner | CanWEA R.J. Templin Award 2010. Winner | PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award 2018.

Liuchen Chang received B.S.E.E. from Northern Jiaotong University in 1982, M.Sc. from China Academy of Railway Sciences in 1984, and Ph.D. from Queen’ University in 1991. He joined the University of New Brunswick in 1992 and is a Professor Emeritus at UNB. He was the NSERC Chair in Environmental Design Engineering during 2001-2007, and the Principal Investigator of Canadian Wind Energy Strategic Network (WESNet) during 2008-2014. He is a long-time volunteer for IEEE for over 28 years and is the President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (2021-2022).

Dr. Chang was a recipient of CanWEA R.J. Templin Award in 2010 for his contribution in the development of wind energy technologies, Innovation Award for Excellence in Applied Research in New Brunswick in 2016 for his contributions in smart grid and renewable energy technologies, and PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award in 2018 for his contributions in distributed energy systems. He is a fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). He has published more than 370 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Chang has focused on research, development, demonstration and deployment of renewable energy based distributed energy systems and direct load control systems.

Tatiane Costa

Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for microgrid application.

Tatiane Costa

Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for microgrid application.

Ph.D. student (Electrical Engineering) | University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Researcher and developer , Edson Mororó Moura Institute of Technology - ITEMM.

ABSTRACT

The growth in the use of renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) connected to the grid requires a power system with greater flexibility to guarantee efficient integration between the sources and the grid. Islands and off-grid systems also receive a significant application of renewable energies and need to guarantee the quality of supply.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) emerge from the leading solutions that can provide resilience and reliability in the grid and islanded electrical networks. The motivation is due to the remarkable capacity to absorb, retain and then re-inject electricity quickly. This response can vary from seconds to milliseconds depending on the technology.

BESS offers several applications such as variable renewable energy smoothing, peak shaving, backup, black start, frequency regulation, voltage control, and microgrid. In the latter case, the generation system operated by diesel generators is replaced by BESS. The diesel generator has the backup function when renewable generation is not available, and the energy store cannot act at the moment. The lecture addresses the applications of BESS with a focus on microgrids.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Tatiane Silva Costa is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She obtained her master's degree in engineering from UNICAMP and a bachelor's degree at the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA). Researcher and developer of microgrids and battery energy storage system at the Edson Mororó Moura Institute of Technology - ITEMM. Member of IEEE and the Laboratory of Energy and Photovoltaic Systems of UNICAMP.

Atif Iqbal

Wireless Battery Charging System-Challenges and Trends

Atif Iqbal

Wireless Battery Charging System-Challenges and Trends

Vice-Chair | IEEE Qatar section; Professor at Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University; Editor-in-Chief | i’manager Journal of Electrical Engineering; Senior Member | IEEE

Abstract

The electric or hybrid vehicles are receiving significant attention in our search for better utilization of energy sources, improvement of the environment, all in an attempt to reduce carbon footprint and the global consumption of fossil fuels. It is expected that with the electrification of transport infrastructure, the operating cost and pollution will be reduced when compared to the actuation method based on traditional fuels. For electric vehicles, batteries are required for traction actuation and are required to be charged when the vehicle is stationary or in motion. There are charging stations where the batteries of the cars are charged through direct connection to the utility grid and the other chargers being developed using wireless power transfer technologies (WPTT) are becoming common. Wireless power transfer is privileged and desirable by electric vehicle owners, because the vehicle is isolated from the grid and no cables, plugs and connectors are required. Furthermore, charging can be undertaken during inclement weather and is fully autonomous. For a stationary WPTT, the driver parks the vehicle on a charging pad platform and the vehicle based batteries are wirelessly charged; while in the dynamic charging facility the batteries are charged while the vehicles are in motion, making it possible for the vehicle to run continuously. Cost consideration presently makes dynamic charging very prohibitive. The talk will elaborate the fundamental concepts of EV charging system. Prons and cons of different charging schemes will be elaborated. A detailed discussion on state of the art in Wireless battery charging system will be given. The challenges and trends in wireless battery charging system will be given in the talk. Some simulation and experimental results will be discussed.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Atif Iqbal, Fellow IET (UK), Fellow IE (India) and Senior Member IEEE, Vice-Chair, IEEE Qatar section, DSc (Poland), PhD (UK)- Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, IEEE ACCESS, Editor-in-Chief, I’manager Journal of Electrical Engineering, Former Associate Editor IEEE Trans. On Industry Application, Former Guest Associate Editor IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics. Full Professor at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University and Former Full Professor at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. Recipient of Outstanding Faculty Merit Award academic year 2014-2015 and Research excellence awards 2015 and 2019 at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He received his B.Sc. (Gold Medal) and M.Sc. Engineering (Power System & Drives) degrees in 1991 and 1996, respectively, from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India and PhD in 2006 from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. He obtained DSc (Habilitation) from Gdansk University of Technology in Control, Informatics and Electrical Engineering in 2019. He has been employed as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, AMU, Aligarh since 1991 where he served as Full Professor until Aug. 2016. He is recipient of Maulana Tufail Ahmad Gold Medal for standing first at B.Sc. Engg. (Electrical) Exams in 1991 from AMU. He has received several best research papers awards e.g. at IEEE ICIT-2013, IET-SEISCON-2013, SIGMA 2018, IEEE CENCON 2019, IEEE ICIOT 2020, ICSTEESD-20 and Springer ICRP 2020. He has published widely in International Journals and Conferences his research findings related to Power Electronics, Variable Speed Drives and Renewable Energy Sources. Dr. Iqbal has authored/co-authored more than 450 research papers and four books and several chapters in edited books. He has supervised several large R&D projects worth more than multi million USD. He has supervised and co-supervised several PhD students. His principal area of research interest is Smart Grid, Complex Energy Transition, Active Distribution Network, Electric Vehicles drivetrain, Sustainable Development and Energy Security, Distributed Energy Generation and multiphase motor drive system.

Prof Dan Rogers

New Power Electronic Interfaces for Battery Energy Storage

Prof Dan Rogers

New Power Electronic Interfaces for Battery Energy Storage

Associate Professor (Department of Engineering Science), University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K Senior Member | IEEE

Abstract:

Battery energy storage systems are inherently modular because they are made up of many cells. Modular power electronic converters are a flourishing research field. It therefore seems natural to use modular power converts for battery energy storage interfaces – but this is not done by any of the major manufactures, who tend to use large, monolithic, conventional DC-link inverters. This talk will present some multi-level converter topologies and control techniques suitable for battery energy storage systems and discuss why they might (and might not) find use in large energy storage systems of the future.

Short Biography:

Daniel J. Rogers (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the Imperial College London, London, U.K., in 2007 and 2011 respectively. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. He conducts research in collaboration with industry and is currently an Investigator on UK EPSRC research projects in the areas of power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, microgrids, and HVdc transmission. His research interests include the use of medium- and large-scale power electronic systems to create flexible electrical networks that take advantage of a diverse range of generation and storage technologies.

Dr Thiwanka Wijekoon

Energy Storage System Integration to Solar PV - Challenges, Trends and Applications Scenarios

Dr Thiwanka Wijekoon

Energy Storage System Integration to Solar PV - Challenges, Trends and Applications Scenarios

Leader | Power Electronics Technology Huawei's Nuremberg Research Center, Germany.

Abstract:

Integrating battery energy storage with Photovoltaic (PV) systems in the distribution network becomes an economical solution which facilitates continued uptake of domestic PV system installations in the EU and many parts of the world supporting self consumption. Large scale storage systems for utility scale Solar PV plants enable essential grid support activities, peak shaving, fast Frequency response support, inertia support ..etc to facilitate increasing power electronic based generations to grid. Increasing concerns regarding environmental and climate change issues, incorporating sources of renewable energy into power networks across the world will be the key for a sustainable future. Some of the key challengers in utilising storage elements to Solar PV systems will be addressed in this talk.

Short Biography:

Thiwanka Wijekoon (M’04–SM’14) is currently the Power Electronics Technology Leader of Huawei's Nuremberg Research Center in Germany since 2016. He received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electrical and Electronic engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Nottingham, U.K., in 2006. He was a Lecturer in Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, until 2003. From 2006 to 2010, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the PEMC group, University of Nottingham working on power converters for more electric aircraft technology. In 2010, he joined GE Global Research-Europe as a Lead Research Engineer in the High Power Electronics Lab, working on large power converters for drives in O&G processing, MVDC transmission systems, Subsea electrification and DFIG wind converters. His current research interests include power-electronic converter topologies, modulation, control, WBG based design of converter systems for applications in Solar PV, UPS and EV. He holds more than 18 granted patents to date and 21 more patent applications pending as well as co-authored more than 25 technical papers.

Dr. Alex Hanson

Why Young PELS Members Must Master Magnetics

Dr. Alex Hanson

Why Young PELS Members Must Master Magnetics

Assistant Professor (ECE Department), University of Texas , Austin, TX. Winner | William M. Portnoy award.

Abstract

We are entering a power conversion landscape where magnetics are an extreme bottleneck to miniaturization and high efficiency. Magnetic components already account for ~50% of the volume and loss in many modern converters, and we will explore how improvements in wide-bandgap devices and increased switching frequencies will make the design of magnetic components even more central as young PELS members come of age in their careers. We will discuss attempts to eliminate magnetic components from power converters and will see that such attempts actually reinforce this argument. We will conclude by noting some exciting advances and areas of inquiry available to those willing to master power magnetics.

Keywords:

magnetics, education, power conversion

Short Biography

Alex Hanson received the BE degree from Dartmouth College in 2014 and the SM and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016 and 2019, respectively. In 2016, he received the William M. Portnoy award for his work on MHz-frequency magnetic components for power conversion. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the ECE department in the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX. His research interests are in high-frequency power conversion, including magnetic components/materials, circuits, and systems.

Dr. Lingxiao (Lincoln) Xue

GaN implementation in Fast Chargers for Consumer Electronics

Dr. Lingxiao (Lincoln) Xue

GaN implementation in Fast Chargers for Consumer Electronics

R&D Staff Member | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | United States. Associate Editor | IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics.

Abstract: Gallium Nitride switch has found its first mass-produced application in consumer electronics chargers, with the technical push on high power and small size. Why is it this application that became the first win for GaN? What are the technical issues addressed during this commercialization effort? What will be the future of this application and unsolved issues? This presentation will try to answer those questions by leveraging the authors’ firsthand experience in this industry.

Short Biography:

Dr. Lingxiao (Lincoln) Xue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 2015, all in electrical engineering. He was a Senior Staff Applications Engineer at Navitas Semiconductor, El Segundo, CA, USA between 2015 to 2019. Since 2019, he has been a R&D Staff Member in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interest includes high frequency, high density wide bandgap device power conversion and transportation electrification. Dr. Xue is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics. He also served in the IEEE Power Electronics Society as the Young Professionals Chair, and Coastal Los Angeles Section Chapter Chair.