Wednesday 25 September 2024 at 2:00 PM CET, 8:00 AM EST

By José Antonio Cobos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Samir Kouro (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile) and Andrii Chub (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)

Joint Webinar with IEEE IES Students and Young Professionals Activity Committee (S&YP)

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Abstract:

Partial Power Processing Technology is aimed at overcoming technological barriers faced by full power electronic converters. It enables achieving efficiency levels of over 99% by limiting amount of power processed by components of the converter. In such a case, power losses are generated from a small fraction of power, which is actually processed by the converter, while major part of the power is delivered to a load without processing, i.e., with nearly 100% efficiency. This tutorial will explain origins and fundamentals of the partial power processing, and provide emerging examples of partial power converters for photovoltaic and battery energy storage systems.

Presenters’ bio:

José Antonio Cobos (Fellow, IEEE)  is a Full Professor with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Founder of the company DPx (Differential Power S.L.). He was RCC Fellow at Harvard University and Fulbrighter at UC Berkeley.
His contributions are focused on the field of power supply systems for industrial, aerospace, telecom, automotive, renewable energy and medical applications. His research interests include energy efficiency in digital systems and RF amplifiers, magnetic components, piezoelectric transformers, transcutaneous energy transfer and the generation of EM fields for water supercooling and biomedical applications. He advised over 50 Master Thesis, 16 Doctoral dissertations, published 300+ technical papers and hold patents co-authored with 8 companies. He conducted professional seminars and tutorials in USA, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Mexico, Denmark, Macedonia and China.
In 2006, he was the founder Director of the “Centro de Electrónica Industrial, CEI-UPM”, a university research center leading a strong industrial program in power electronics and digital systems. In 2016, he was the founder President of the “Industrial Council @ CEI” to coordinate Education & Research with Industry. In 2019, he started DPx, a startup from UPM to synthesize advanced power converters for high performance computing.

Samir Kouro (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering in 2007, where he has been Associate Professor since 2014.
From 2009 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada. From 2022 to 2023, he was a Maria Zambrano Research Fellow with the Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain. He is a founding member and Principal Investigator of the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) and of the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC-Chile), both recognized as research centers of excellence in Chile. He has coauthored two books, 14 book chapters and over 250 refereed journal and conference papers.
He received the 2016 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Bimal K. Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, the 2015 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society J. David Irwin Early Career Award, the 2012 IEEE Power Electronics Society Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award, and four IEEE Journals best paper awards.

Andrii Chub (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic systems from Chernihiv State Technological University, Ukraine, in 2008 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, in 2016.
He was a Visiting Research Fellow with Kiel University, in 2017, and a Postdoctoral Researcher with Federico Santa Maria Technical University, from 2018 to 2019. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Power Electronics Group, Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Tallinn University of Technology. He has coauthored more than 200 articles, several book chapters on power electronics and applications, and holds several patents and utility models. His research interests include advanced DC–DC converter topologies, renewable energy conversion systems, energy-efficient buildings, reliability, and fault-tolerance of power electronic converters.
He received numerous best paper awards from IEEE conferences and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Best Conference Paper Award, in 2018. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics.