Prominent International Award for Ideas to Windmill Controls of the Future · 18. July 2011
Aalborg University’s energy researchers have once again gained credit for their research within windmills of the future. The researchers’ paper has been chosen as the best among 400 international papers at a conference, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2011), in Gdansk in Poland.
The paper concerns possible controls for windmills in the size of 10 megawatt (MW), which are somewhat larger than the largest mills seen today. 10 megawatt windmills may be current in 2015, and the researchers have made an analysis of the possible solutions and compared them to each other in fine detail – both concepts without gear and concepts with one-level gear, and this work will be a contribution to the selection of future windmill solutions.
Ph.D. student Ke Ma, Professor Frede Blaabjerg – both from the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University, and Professor Dehong Xu, Zhejiang University, Kina, has performed the work on the paper. Professor Frede Blaabjerg is also connected to Zhejiang University as a Professor, and the paper and also the award is a visible result of the cooperation between the two universities.
“The work will continue for the next couple of years – Ke Ma has only just started his PhD studies, and we have developed great tools for making detailed studies of the windmills of the future We will also be much better at estimating the reliability of the transformers, which are being installed,” explains Professor
Frede Blaabjerg, who is impressed by the result of Ke Ma so early
into his PhD studies.
More information about the authors
Ke Ma started his PhD studies approximately a year ago at the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University, where he works on the project ”Power Electronics Conversion System for 10 MW Wind Turbines”. He is financed by Chinese Scholarship Programme and he has his Master Degree from Zheijang University.
Professor Frede Blaabjerg from the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University works within the area of power electronics, which is used in many forms of energy conversion processes, and he has received numerous prizes for his research.
Professor Dehong Xu works at Zhejiang University and has for many years worked with power electronics in many forms of energy conversion processes and he works closely together with the Chinese Industry.
