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SUMMARY:EE Distinguished Speakers Seminar: Solid State Transformers – Th
 e Holy Grail of Power Electronics?
DTSTART:20200313T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Drazen Dujic is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Power E
 lectronics Laboratory at EPFL. He received the Dipl.Ing. and MSc degrees f
 rom the University of Novi Sad\, Novi Sad\, Serbia in 2002 and 2005\, resp
 ectively\, and the PhD degree from Liverpool John Moores University\, Live
 rpool\, UK in 2008. From 2003 to 2006\, he was a Research Assistant with t
 he Faculty of Technical Sciences at University of Novi Sad. From 2006 to 2
 009\, he was a Research Associate with Liverpool John Moores University. A
 fter that he moved to industry and joined ABB Switzerland Ltd\, where from
  2009 to 2013\, he was Scientist and then Principal Scientist with ABB Cor
 porate Research Center in Baden-Dättwil\, and from 2013 to 2014 he was R&
 D Platform Manager with ABB Medium Voltage Drives in Turgi. He is with EPF
 L since 2014. His research interests include the areas of design and contr
 ol of advanced high power electronic systems and high-performance drives\,
  predominantly for the medium voltage applications related to electrical e
 nergy generation\, conversion and storage. He has authored or co-authored 
 more than 150 scientific publications and has filed 14 patents. In 2018 he
  received EPE Outstanding Service Award and\, in 2014 The Isao Takahashi P
 ower Electronics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Power Electronics. H
 e is Senior Member of IEEE\, EPE Member\, and serves as Associate Editor f
 or IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\, IEEE Transactions on Industria
 l Electronics\, IET Electric Power Applications and EPE Journal.\nAbstract
 : Power electronics based\, electrical energy conversion\, technologies 
 have been deployed in various applications\, from very low power levels in
  range of mWs to very high GW rated installations. With increasing prolife
 ration of power converters into power system\, limits of conventional conv
 ersion technologies become apparent and new solutions are required. Solid 
 State Transformers (SST) - a new breed of conversion technologies\, has be
 en recently attracting attention of researches\, both in academia and indu
 stry. While these conversion structures offer many attractive features\, h
 igh conversion flexibility\, there are also many challenges that must be o
 vercome to take advantages and benefits. Irrespectively of adopted SST con
 cept\, these structures are characterized as being modular and having inhe
 rently built-in galvanic isolation at medium or high frequency. This bring
 s challenges associated with electrical\, magnetic\, dielectric and therma
 l performances\, that all must be simultaneously addressed. Talk will prov
 ide an overview on this highly attractive field\, address challenges previ
 ously mentioned\, and offer possible solutions to address them. Multiple i
 llustrative examples and achievements\, related to SST technology\, coming
  from the research work conducted at EPFL will be presented.\n\n 
LOCATION:ELA 2 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELA%202
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