The InnoDC project finished on 31 December 2021, and its researchers are now employed in specialist roles within academia or industry, such as Luis Orellana, who moved from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Barcelona) to Siemens-Energy (Germany) as a Control & Protection Engineer for HVDC Studies. Meanwhile, research, collaborations and follow-on projects continue. Below we summaries…
All InnoDC colleagues were devastated to learn the news of Uporto‘s Prof Helder Leite dying unexpectedly earlier this month. Helder was a power systems specialist known for his kindness, warmth and humour. He was an InnoDC supervisor and Work Package lead, and had been a member of InnoDC’s precursor project, MEDOW (multi-terminal DC grid for offshore…
InnoDC’s researchers continue to publish work while completing their PhDs and moving on in their careers. After presenting his PhD viva at Cardiff University in August 2021, Gayan Abeynayake joined the international sustainable energy company, Ørsted, based at their London office. His new role as a Power System Engineer includes improving Ørsted’s offshore wind-farms’ reliability and availability. The skills…
InnoDC’s researchers have been publishing more work, summarised below. Click on the Journals page for the full list of specialist articles. State Estimation for Hybrid VSC Based HVDC/AC: Unified Bad Data Detection Integrated with Gaussian Mixture Model. IEEE Access. Authors: Motaz Ayiad, Helder Leite, Hugo Martins. Supervisory control and data…
InnoDC’s researchers have been completing their secondments and publishing more research. Reliability and Economic Evaluation of Offshore Wind Power DC Collection Systems. Energies. Authors: Ruijuan Sun, Gayan Abeynayake, Jun Liang and Kewen Wang. One directive to realise global transition towards net-zero emissions is to generate energy through renewable energy resources. Offshore wind…
InnoDC has published more of its research into network communication and control, and energy availability assessment. Communication Requirements for a Hybrid VSC Based HVDC/AC Transmission Networks State Estimation. Energies.Authors: Motaz Ayiad, Emily Maggioli, Helder Leite and Hugo Martins. The modern power network has scaled-up enormously, so power is generated…
InnoDC has published more research into transmission efficiency, and project partner Enersynt is recruiting electrical engineers. See below for details. HVAC Transmission System for Offshore Wind Power Plants including Mid-cable Reactive Power Compensation: Optimal design and comparison to VSC-HVDC transmission. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.Authors: Jovana Dakic, Marc Cheah-Mane, Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt…
InnoDC has published its work on reducing errors in alternating current (AC) & direct current (DC) measurements, as well as with the Wales-based Angle-DC project. And InnoDC features for a 2nd time in European Energy Innovation. See below for details. State Estimation for Hybrid VSC Based HVDC/AC Transmission Networks, published…
InnoDC’s latest publications look at ways to improve conversion, control and blackstart, as well as explain InnoDC as a whole. Optimal current reference calculation for MMCs considering converter limitations, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. Authors: Daniel Westerman Spier, Eduardo Prieto-Araujo, Joaquim Lopez-Mestre and Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt. Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) can…
InnoDC’s researchers have recently published papers which look at ways to cut costs, increase efficiency and improve performance in energy technology. Performance of Composite Outdoor Insulator under Superimposed Direct and Switching Impulse Voltages published in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. Sometimes an overhead line’s outdoor insulator can fail. Davide Pinzan,…