Tj Pickett-Pinex, Illinois Solar Decathlon Undergraduate Research ARISE Scholar There are two mail problems with wind turbines in residential settings: they are imposing, intrusive structures that don’t function in a light breeze. A green-energy concept considers a turbine that looks like a tree and works in light winds. During the COP21 (https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement), a few streets […]
Illinois Solar Decathlon
UIUC’s Illinois Solar Decathlon Design Team are finalists! Over the past school year, the Design Team has worked numerous hours to bring to life a project they call IDEALS, a 165,000 sq. ft. K–8th grade educational institution standing to promote innovation, design, engineering, arts, learning, and sustainability in its design. It is a state-of-the-art, progressive, […]
Illini Solar Car
Clark Taylor, Illini Solar Car team member, continues, “This year, Illini Solar Car finished work on their third-generation car, Calypso, the team’s most efficient car to date. The car’s efficiency is a result of modifications like the switch to only three wheels, the first of the team’s cars to include this feature, as well as […]
Composite Converter Architecture for Wind Energy Systems Connected to the AC Grid
MS student Jason Paximadas with Advisor A. Banerjee Modern, megawatt-scale wind turbines present unique challenges to power electronics design. Unlike double-fed induction-generator based systems, high power density permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSG) wind turbines prevent the designer from building partially rated power electronics. As deployment of wind turbines expands, so too has the need for […]
Power System Voltage Regulation via Online Feedback Optimization of Inverter-Based Resources
PhD student Temitope Amuda with Advisor A. Domínguez-García We consider the problem of voltage regulation in power distribution networks with inverter-based resources (IBRs) whose reactive power output can be controlled. The problem is formulated as a stochastic optimization program, which is solved online using a modified version of the projected stochastic gradient descent (PSGD) algorithm. […]
Modeling, Simulation, and Control Design for Electro-Mechanical Phenomena in Heterogeneous Power Systems
MS student Ethan WIlliams with Advisor A. Domínguez-García Secure power system operation has become an increasing concern, given the growing penetration of inverted-interfaced renewables. Specifically, with the wide variety of inverter-based resources, it is important to investigate how they interact amongst each other and with synchronous generators. Further, as the modern grid becomes heterogeneous, it […]
Computational Tools for Differentiable Multi-Physics Electric Machine Models
Andrés Beltrán-Pulido, Dionysios Aliprantis (Elmore Family School of Electrical & Computer Engineering), Ilias Bilionis (School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University This research project is focused on developing a computational framework for differentiable multi-physics electric machine (EM) models to enable efficient and accurate modeling, analysis, and design for various applications (e.g., electric vehicles). Our goal is […]
Scaling of Flat and PCB Stator Windings with Additively Manufactured In-Slot Heat Exchangers
CEME Collaborator Professor Bulent Sarlioglu and Research Assistant Justin Paddock – University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooling electric machines designed for power levels at the megawatt scale is necessary to increase their power density. An analytical approach was initially adopted for modeling the windings and heat exchangers’ thermal behavior to scale in-slot heat exchangers and flat winding […]
Winding Short-Circuit Diagnosis of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Using Artificial Intelligence
CEME Collaborator Professor Julia Zhang and Michael Nye – The Ohio State University The goal of this project is to implement machine learning techniques to predict the location of inter-turn shorts within a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM). We decided to frame the problem using a neural network. First we use time-series data of simulated […]
Plasma-Sprayed Ceramic Coatings for Electric Machine Insulation
MS student Brian Wolhuapter with Advisor K. Haran Current insulation materials for electric machines are limiting our ability to improve machine power densities. Polymers have been used as machine insulation for decades, but they are not the perfect material class for machine insulation. While they have good dielectric properties, they have low thermal conductivity, low […]