WEMPEC Newsletter – October 2024

October 2024

Connect with WEMPEC at ECCE 2024!
ECCE is one of the biggest conference events of the year for WEMPEC, and this year is no different.Professors Bulent Sarlioglu and Thomas Jahns are session panelists/speakers at the Simulation-Drive Electric Propulsion session and Aerospace Electrified Propulsion session, respectively. In addition, they each will be giving a tutorial on Electric Propulsion (Sarlioglu) and Bidirectional WBG Power Switches (Jahns).Several students will be presenting in the oral and poster sessions detailing their research and will participate in the student demonstration portion of the conference as well. Members have early access to most paper pre-prints on our website.
WEMPEC Poster Sessions
As an engineer with a WEMPEC Member company, you have access to the included publications and all other member-only content on the WEMPEC website: www.wempec.wisc.edu. If you have not already done so, please use the following link to register for access: https://apps.wempec.wisc.edu/register. Once you have completed the short registration form and it is approved by staff, you will have immediate access.

WEMPEC Oral Sessions

Oral Session No. 12 Control for Renewable Energy Systems – October 21st

Rafael Castillo-Sierra, Universidad del Norte, Columbia, and Jinia Roy, UW Madison

Active Power Decoupling to Minimize Module Capacitance and Circulating Current in

Modular Multilevel Converters

Oral Session No. 43 Predictive Control of Motor Drives – October 23rd

Bulent Sarlioglu, WEMPEC/UW-Madison

Fixed-Switching Frequency Model Predictive Current Control of MPSM: Closed-Form

Solution in the Rotating Reference Frame Suitable for Salient Machines (with Ricardo

Breda, Erik Colavitto, Sandro Calligaro, Roberto Petrella, University of Udine, Italy)

And

Model Predictive Current Control for Wound Rotor Synchronous Machines Based on

Closed-Form Solution and Fixed Switching Frequency (with Ricardo Breda, Erik

Colavitto, Sandro Calligaro, Roberto Petrella, University of Udine, Italy)

Oral Session No. 55 Bearingless and High-Speed Machines – October 23rd

WaiYan (Anson) Chan, UW-Madison

Scaling of High-Speed Surface PM Bearingless Machines (with Takahiro Noguchi and

Eric Severson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)

Oral Session 72 Control of DC-AC Converters – October 23rd

Mahima Gupta, UW-Madison

A Buck-Boost Current-Controlled Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive with

Stiff Motor Terminal Voltage and Current Waveforms (with Daisy Delgado-Zaragoza,

Portland State University)

Oral Session 76 Materials, Losses, Thermal and Manufacturing Issues I – October 23rd

Gokhan Cakal, Thomas M Jahns and Bulent Sarlioglu, UW Madison

Slot Wall Extensions for Improved Thermal Performance of Electric Machines

Oral Session 78 Traction and Aircraft Drives – October 23rd

Pengkun Tian, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Ken Chen, Thomas Jahns and Bulent Sarlioglu,

UW Madison

Development and Testing of a Fault-Tolerant Modular Motor Drive using a PM

Machine with Isolated Modules

WEMPEC will also have a University Table, No. 6 – Please stop and say hello!