Events

Nov
24
Sun
Modern Day Applications of Power Electronics – Who Can Benefit?
Nov 24 @ 00:46 – 01:46
Modern Day Applications of Power Electronics – Who Can Benefit?

AbstractApplication of power electronics is widespread in everyday
life. Some applications are considered as “nice to have it;” in other cases,
they are essential. This presentation discusses a wide variety of daily-used
applications around the world. Also covered is an advanced topic, such as SMART
Controller that today’s grid requires for voltage regulation, power factor
regulation, unbalance voltage/current regulation, harmonic elimination and so
on. A SMART Controller that is based on functional requirements and
cost-effective solutions is derived from utilizing the best features of all the
technical concepts that are developed until now. Final year students of
electrical engineering undergraduate curriculum, post graduate students,
researchers, academicians and utility engineers will benefit from attending
this course. The participants will hear from an expert who actually designed
and commissioned a few utility-grade SMART controllers since their inception in
the 1990s.

 

Speaker’s
Bio

Kalyan Sen, a
Fulbright Scholar, is the Chief Technology Officer of Sen Engineering
Solutions, Inc. (
www.sentransformer.com) that specializes in
developing SMART power flow controllers—a functional requirements-based and
cost-effective solution. He
received
BEE,
MSEE, and PhD degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Jadavpur University,
India, Tuskegee University, USA, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA,
respectively. He also received an MBA from Robert Morris University, USA.

 

Dr.
Sen spent more than 30 years in academia and industry and became a Westinghouse
Fellow Engineer. He was a key member of the Flexible Alternating Current
Transmission Systems (FACTS) development team at the Westinghouse Science &
Technology Center in Pittsburgh. He contributed in all aspects (conception,
simulation, design, and commissioning) of FACTS projects at Westinghouse. He
conceived some of the basic concepts in FACTS technology. He has authored or
coauthored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, 8 issued patents, a book
and 4 book chapters in the areas of FACTS and power electronics. He is the
coauthor of the book titled, Introduction
to FACTS Controllers: Theory, Modeling, and Applications
, IEEE Press and
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009, which is also published in Chinese and Indian
paperback editions. He is the co-inventor of Sen Transformer.

Nov
28
Thu
Modern Day Applications of Power Electronics – Who Can Benefit? @ Room P208, Algonquin College
Nov 28 @ 18:00 – 20:00
Modern Day Applications of Power Electronics – Who Can Benefit? @ Room P208, Algonquin College | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada

Seminar by IEEE Ottawa Section, PELS, SSIT, RS-PEL, PES, Education Activities, Algonquin College IEEE Student Branch, ComSoc, CESoc, and BTS Ottawa Joint Chapter.

The IEEE Ottawa Section is inviting all interested IEEE members and nonmembers to a seminar

Modern Day Applications of Power Electronics – Who Can Benefit?

By 

Kalyan K. Sen

Sen Engineering Solutions, Inc.

DATE:

November 28th 2019

TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
18:00;
Seminar:
18:30 – 20:00.

PLACE:
Algonquin College, Room P208, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa.

PARKING:

Parking in Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a
machine and display the ticket on your dashboard.

 

ADMISSION:

Free. Registration required.

Please register by e-mail contacting: ottawapels@gmail.com

 

Abstract:

Application of power electronics is widespread in everyday life. Some applications are considered as “nice to have it;” in other cases, they are essential. This presentation discusses a wide variety of daily-used applications around the world. Also covered is an advanced topic, such as SMART Controller that today’s grid requires for voltage regulation, power factor regulation, unbalance voltage/current regulation, harmonic elimination and so on. A SMART Controller that is based on functional requirements and cost-effective solutions is derived from utilizing the best features of all the technical concepts that are developed until now. Final year students of electrical engineering undergraduate curriculum, post graduate students, researchers, academicians and utility engineers will benefit from attending this course. The participantswill hear from an expert who actually designed and commissioned a fewutility-grade SMART controllers since their inception in the 1990s.

 

Modern Day Applications of Power Electronics – Who Can Benefit
Apr
6
Mon
Discussion on possible COVID-19 response – IEEE-Ottawa SIG Humanitarian Technology
Apr 6 @ 16:30 – 18:00

​Dear Ottawa Section members,

the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a level of urgency that needs an “all hands on deck” approach..If you are still waiting to play a role by contributing your academic, professional or personal skills to find technology-based solutions: please join us on a web call to organise a response:

Organiser: IEEE-Ottawa SIG on Humanitarian Technology
Date: Friday April 10

Time: 16h30

URL: Google Meet invitation

       https://meet.google.com/wep-xofb-uzo?authuser=1&hs=122

 

Tentative agenda:

(5min) Introductions

(15min) Sharing of IEEE-specific COVID-19 resources

(25min) Roundtable of local resources

(15min) Roundtable of known needs

(* min) Open discussion & wrap-up

Please RSVP by emailing: alfredo.herrera@ieee.org : this will enable us to prepare the agenda and round table with a number of participants in mind.

Apr
10
Fri
Web call to discuss possible COVID-19 response (IEEE Ottawa section)
Apr 10 @ 16:30 – 18:00

​Dear Ottawa Section members,

​​the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a level of urgency that needs an “all hands on deck” approach​. If you are still ​waiting to play a role by contributing your academic, professional or personal skills to find technology-based solutions: please join us on a web call to organise ​a response​:

Organiser: IEEE-Ottawa SIG on Humanitarian Technology

Date:         Friday April 10

Time: 16h30

URL: Google Meet invitation

​       https://meet.google.com/wep-xofb-uzo?authuser=1&hs=122​

Tentative agenda:

  1. (5min) Introductions
  2. (15min) Sharing of IEEE-specific COVID-19 resources
  3. (25min) Roundtable of local resources
  4. (15min) Roundtable of known needs
  5. (* min) Open discussion & wrap-up

Please RSVP by emailing: alfredo.herrera@ieee.org​ :​ this will enable us to prepare the agenda and round table with a number of participants in mind.

Jul
7
Tue
A Novel Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Technique for Photovoltaic Solar Panels
Jul 7 @ 18:00 – 19:30
A Novel Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Technique for Photovoltaic Solar Panels

The IEEE Reliability Society & Power Electronics
Society is inviting all interested IEEE members and prospective members to a
webinar

 

A Novel Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Technique for Photovoltaic Solar Panels

By

 

Mahdi Ranjbar

DATE:       July 7, 2020

TIME:        18 19:30.

       

A
novel Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique for photovoltaic (PV)
solar panels will be presented.  Current
sensors are costly components. They also require a signal conditioning
circuitry to reduce the noise and condition the signal to be sampled and used
by the controller.  Th
is
method takes advantage of the non-linearity of the I-V curve of the solar panel
to
find the MPP
. By injecting high-frequency perturbation signals and
monitoring the system behavior current sensing used for controlling of MPPT
is eliminated. This elimination can reduce the cost of MPPT circuitry. The proposed method also shows a very fast tracking response due to the use of high-frequency signals instead of relying on low frequency and DC signals which are used in the traditional methods. Numerical analysis, simulation results, and experimental results verify the feasibility of the proposed technique will be shown.

 

Mahdi
Tude Ranjbar received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tehran,
Iran (2017). In this period, his main focus was on collaboration with different laboratories in ECE and Mechanical engineering departments. He started his M.A.Sc degree in 2018 at Queen’s, Canada with a focus on improving the efficiency of the solar system power generation techniques.  Since March 2020, Mr. Ranjbar has joined the System
Architecture group at HUADA Semiconductors where his main focus is designing power applications using Huada’s microcontrollers, gate drivers and current sense amplifiers.


Please
register here:
 https://events.vtools.ieee.org/tego_/event/manage/233724

A link will be sent to you a day before the event.

 

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