Open access article published in IET Power Electronics by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institution of Engineering and Technology on 17 June 2022. G. Fortes(1,2) P. Ladoux(2) J. Fabre(2,3) D. Flumian(2) (1)XPwE Solutions – eXperts in Power Electronics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2)LAPLACE Laboratory, Université de Toulouse, Read more…
FUNDRES (FUture UNified DC Railway Electrification System) is a €0.75 million project led by LAPLACE (Laboratory on Plasma and Conversion of Energy, University of Toulouse, France) in collaboration with three other European partners from Italy, Switzerland and France, namely: the Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano – POLIMI), the Read more…
The Shift2Rail-funded IP3 FUNDRES project final Webinar was successfully held on 18 January 2022. You can download below the presentations delivered during this event: Presentation by the Shift2Rail-JU IP3 Programme Manager https://bit.ly/3rzrak5 Presentation of project objectives by FUNDRES coordinator (LAPLACE) https://bit.ly/3nHkqQ8 WP2: Grid interaction Railway power supply and public grid Read more…
The consortium partners of the Europe’s Rail-Funded IP3 project FUNDRES are pleased to invite you to their final webinar to be held online on Tuesday 18 January 2022 from 03.00 to 05.00 pm CEST. The FUNDRES project presents an in-depth reflection to define a Future Unified Dc Railway Electrification System, Read more…
On 17 November 2021, the final event of the Shift2Rail JU-funded IP3 FUNDRES Project took place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). FUNDRES (FUture UNified DC Railway Electrification System) is a €0,75 million project led by LAPLACE (Laboratory of plasma and conversion of energy, University of Toulouse, France) Read more…
The consortium partners of the Shift2Rail-Funded IP3 project FUNDRES are pleased to invite you to their final event to be held at the Starling Hotel Lausanne at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Route cantonale 31 – 1025 Saint-Sulpice on Wednesday 17 November 2021 from 09.00 am to Read more…
STEFAN MILOVANOVIĆ(1), (Member, IEEE), MIN LUO(2), (Member, IEEE), AND DRAŽEN DUJIĆ(1), (Senior Member, IEEE) (1)Power Electronics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland (2)Plexim GmbH, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland Corresponding author: Stefan Milovanović (stefan.milovanovic@epfl.ch) ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates the splitting of the modular multilevel converter real-time simulation model Read more…
On 29 June 2021, members of the Shift2Rail-funded projects FUNDRES, IN2STEMPO and MVDC-ERS met online for a webinar on smart railway traction power supply. IN2STEMPO and FUNDRES are two complementary IP3 Shift2Rail funded projects while MVDC-ERS is an IPx Shift2Rail funded project. These three projects are focussed on railway electrification Read more…
by Stefan Milovanovic, Ignacio Polanco, Milan Utvic, and Drazen Dujic Abstract: The decreasing trend in the price of computational power has led to the evolution of various tools intended to support development processes in power electronics. In the domain of high-power converters, which rely on the use of digital controllers Read more…
Published in Power & Beyond, the Platform for Power Electronics PCIM EUROPE 2021 – BEST PAPER AWARD WINNER Author / Editor: Gustavo Fortes / Nicole Kareta In the solid state transformers with medium voltage SiC-Devices, it is possible to achieve very high efficiency, although designing a sufficiently high switching frequency Read more…