PEMC Newsletter January 2019

Happy New Year! Welcome to the PEMC Newsletter - a source of news and information about the

Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering, University of

Nottingham

In This Issue

• University, Faculty and Group News

• PEMC Group Conference 2018

• Seminars and Events

• Journal Papers

• Conferences

• Visitors

• Group Social Activities

• Contact Us

University, Faculty and Group News

£11.15m grant secured to pilot driverless taxis in London

The University of Nottingham has become part of a major government-backed initiative to trial self-

driving taxis around parts of London.

Research showcase addresses future of aerospace propulsion

The Institute of Aerospace Technology held a day-long Research Showcase event on 29th November

2018, with a focus on how academia and industry can solve the challenges of future aircraft

propulsion. The Showcase also introduced Professor Serhiy Bozhko, the IAT's new Director and

valued member of the PEMC Group.

New Grant for Research at Power Electronics and Machines Centre

The Wolfson Foundation has donated £1.5m to enable research into electric transport. The donation

will see the creation of an Aerospace and Electric Flight Test Cell Propulsion Unit, which will be an

important research area in the new Power Electronics and Machines Centre, due to open in 2020.

Professor Pat Wheeler, Head of the PEMC Group, said "the creation of a new test cell unit will enable

our world-renowned Power Electronics, Machines and Control Research Group to progress its

successful research into transport electrification concepts."

PhD Studentships in the PEMC Group Available

The PEMC Group is delighted to announce that three fully funded PhD studentships are now

available, working with the group and collaborating with Teledyne e2v, an important industrial

partner.

Professor Pericle Zanchetta - IEEE Fellow

The PEMC Group is very pleased to announce that Professor Pericle Zanchetta has been made Fellow

of IEEE. Prof Zanchetta has been a member of PEMC for nineteen years and we're delighted that he

has received this prestigious honour.

VTS Seminar

Dr Ke Li, Research Fellow within PEMC, was invited by the Technical Committee of IEEE Vehicle

Technology Society (VTS) to give a seminar on “New power semiconductor devices for electrified

vehicles” to the postgraduate students of University of Lille, France on 9th November 2018.

1 - Dr Ke Li at the VTS Seminar

PEMC Group Conference

The PEMC Group held its Annual Conference on 18th December, hosting invited industrial colleagues

and group members. Academics from the group gave presentations about their latest research. As

ever, the Conference is a great opportunity to meet with valued colleagues and share news about

research developments. And, as the Conference was held at Christmas, delegates were invited back

to the Department for mince pies!

The following presentations were given:

Prof Mark Sumner - “Detecting and Locating Faults in Distribution Systems with High Penetrations of

Power Electronic Converters”

• Prof Chris Gerada - “Design and Control of Modular Drives ”

• Dr Giampaolo Buticchi - “Active Thermal Control for More Reliable Power Electronics ”

• Dr Michele Degano - “High Performance Drives for Aerospace Actuation ”

• Dr Adam Walker - “Future Manufacturing of Passive Magnetic Components”

• Dr Gaurang Vakil - “Towards Revamping of Salient Pole Synchronous Generators”

• Dr Tom Cox - “Overview of new PEMC Building, Jubilee Campus”

Thanks to everyone who attended the Conference and we're already looking forward to the next

Conference at the end of 2019!

2 - Many thanks to the PEMC Conference Team for making the day run so smoothly!

Seminars and Events

PEMC Seminar Series

The PEMC Group holds regular seminars, providing researchers, students and visitors with an

opportunity to share their work.

The following seminars have taken place:

1st November 2018

• "3L-NPC AC-DC Power Converter Using Virtual Space Vector PWM with Optimal Switching

Sequence Based on g-h Coordinate" by Feng Guo

• "An Enhanced Power Generation Centre for More Electric Aircraft Applications" by Xiaoyu

Lang

12th December 2018

• “Impact of single and combined electromechanical faults on stator and rotor vibration

characteristics in synchronous generator" by Prof. Yu-Ling He, North China Electric Power

University

• “Microgrid Energy Management Using a Two Stage Rolling Horizon Technique for Controlling

an Energy Storage System’’ by Mahmoud Elkazaz

23rd January 2019

• “Model reduction for the stability assessment of a Single-Phase Active-Front End”, Marta

Laterza

• “Design of High Reliability Power converters for Aerospace applications”, Jayakrishnan

Harikumaran

• “Wide Bandgap Semiconductors in More Electric Aircraft Motor Drive Applications”, Shane

O’Donnell

Journal Papers

The following journal papers co-authored by a PEMC Group Member have been recently accepted

for publication, or published online:

• Antonini, M., Cova, P., Delmonte, N., Castellazzi, A., "GaN transistors efficient cooling by

graphene foam", Microelectronics Reliability, 2018

• Fayyaz, A., Asllani, B., Castellazzi, A., Riccio, M., Irace, A." Avalanche ruggedness of parallel

SiC power MOSFETs", Microelectronics Reliability, 2018

• Stella, F., Olanrewaju, O., Yang, Z., Castellazzi, A., Pellegrino, G. "Experimentally validated

methodology for real-time temperature cycle tracking in SiC power modules",

Microelectronics Reliability, 2018

• Yan, H., Xu, Y., Zhao, W., Zhang, H., Gerada, C., "DC Drift Error Mitigation Method for Three-

Phase Current Reconstruction With Single Hall Current Sensor", IEEE Transactions on

Magnetics, 2018

• Wei, J., Xue, H., Zhou, B., Zhang, Z., Gerada, C., "An Integrated Method for Three-phase AC

Excitation and High-frequency Voltage Signal njection for Sensorless Starting of Aircraft

Starter/Generator", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018

• Mohammed, A.M., Galea, M., Cox, T., Gerada, C., "Consideration on Eddy Current

Reduction Techniques for Solid Materials Used in Unconventional Magnetic Circuits", IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018

• Broglia, R., Choi, K.-S., Houston, P., Pasquale, L., Zanchetta, P., "Output feedback control of

flow separation over an aerofoil using plasma actuators", International Journal of Numerical

Analysis and Modeling, 2018

• Salis, V., Costabeber, A., Cox, S.M., Tardelli, F., Zanchetta, P. "Experimental Validation of

Harmonic Impedance Measurement and LTP Nyquist Criterion for Stability Analysis in Power

Converter Networks", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2018

• Shuo Wang. Jinsong Kang, Michele Degano, Giampaolo Buticchi, "A Resolver-to-Digital

Conversion Method Based on Third-order Rational Fraction Polynomial Approximation for

PMSM Control", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018

• IMAYAVARAMBAN MUNUSWAMY, PATRICK W WHEELER, "Standard Clamp for

Regenerative Braking in Matrix Converter Drive: More Electric Aircraft", Journal of Electrical

Engineering, 2018

• Cavallo, A., Canciello, G., Guida, B., Kulsangcharoen, P., Yeoh, S.S., Rashed, M., Bozhko, S.,

"Multi-objective supervisory control for DC/DC converters in advanced aeronautic

applications", Energies, 2018

• Yeoh, S.S., Rashed, M., Sanders, M., Bozhko, S., "Variable Voltage Bus Concept for Aircraft

Electrical Power System", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018

• Buticchi, G., Bozhko, S., Liserre, M., Wheeler, P., Al-Haddad, K., "On-board Microgrids for

the More Electric Aircraft - Technology Review", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,

2018

• Wang, L., Yang, J., Ma, H., Wang, Z., Olanrewaju, K.O., Wheeler, P., "Analysis and Modeling

of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation", IEEE Transactions on Power

Electronics, 2018

• Saleh, K., Sumner, M., "Sensorless control of a fault-tolerant multi-level PMSM drive",

Telkomnika (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control), 2018

• Nuzzo, S., Bolognesi, P., Gerada, C., Galea, M., "Simplified Damper Cage Circuital Model and

Fast Analytical-Numerical approach for the analysis of Synchronous Generators", IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018

• Yan, L., Liu, Y., Zhang, L., Zongxia, J., Gerada, C., "Magnetic Field Modeling and Analysis of

Spherical Actuator with Two-dimensional Longitudinal Camber Halbach Array", IEEE

Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018

• Jiang, X., Zhang, Y., Jin, S., Zhang, F., Gerada, C., "A Novel Thermal Network Model Used for

Temperature Calculation and Analysis on Brushless Doubly-Fed Generator With Winding

Encapsulating Structure", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2018

• AGYAKWA, P.A., YANG, L., ARJMAND, E., EVANS, P., CORFIELD, M. and JOHNSON, C.M.,

"Damage Evolution in Al Wire Bonds Subjected to a Junction Temperature Fluctuation of 30

K", Journal of Electronic Materials, 2018

• Tarisciotti, L., Costabeber, A., Chen, L., Walker, A., Galea, M., "Current fed isolated DC/DC

converter for future aerospace microgrids", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2018

• Linglin Chen, Luca Tarisciotti, Alessandro Costabeber, Quanxue Guan, Patrick Wheeler,

Pericle Zanchetta, "Phase-Shift-Modulation for a current-fed isolated DC-DC converter in

More Electric Aircraft", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2018

• Dragicevic, T., Wheeler, P., Blaabjerg, F., "Artificial Intelligence Aided Automated Design for

Reliability of Power Electronic Systems", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2018

Conferences

PEMC Group members are active participants at national and international conferences. Group

members have recently attended the following conferences, or co-authored papers presented at

the following:

VPPC 2018 - Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference

• SEN, S., EVANS, P. and JOHNSON, C.M, "Multi-Frequency Averaging Model of Electric

Powertrain in Variable Frequency Operation "

GPPS Global Power & Propulsion Society

• H. B. Enalou, S. Bozhko, M. Rashed, and P. Kulsangcharoen, "A Preliminary Study into

Turbofan Performance with LP-HP Power Exchange"

ECCE 2018 - IEEE ENERGY CONVERSION CONGRESS & EXPO

• Hanafy Mahmoud, Michele Degano, Giacomo Bacco, Nicola Bianchi, and Chris Gerada,

"Synchronous Reluctance Motor Iron Losses: Analytical Model and Optimization"

ESARS 2018 - Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles

• P. Giangrande, A. Al-Timimy, A. Galassini, S. Papadopoulos, M. Degano, M. Galea, "Design of

PMSM for EMA Employed in Secondary Flight Control Systems"

• Ahmed Fares; Christian Klumpner; Mohamed Rashed, "Design Considerations to Optimise

Supercapacitor-based Energy Storage Systems for Aerospace Applications"

• Angel Recalde, Serhiy Bozhko, Jason Atkin, Christopher Hill, "A reliability approach for the

MEA power system architecture design optimization problem"

• Cosimo Spagnolo, Sharmila Sumsurooah, Christoper Ian Hill, Serhiy Bozhko, "Generator

overload reduction using smart power management"

• Christian Klumpner, Mohamed Rashed, "Design and Evaluation of a Power Converter for an

Energy Storage System for Aircrafts"

• Linhui Fan, Tao Yang, Mohamed Rashed, Serhiy Bozhko, "Comparative Study Of Back EMF

Based Sensorless Control Methods For Dual Three-Phase PMSM"

• Jeevan Adhikari, Tao Yang, Jiawei Zhang, Mohamed Rashed, Serhiy Bozhko, Patrick Wheeler,

"Thermal Analysis of High Power High Voltage DC Solid State Power Controller (SSPC) for

Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor-craft"

• Mingming Yin, Serhiy Bozhko, Taike Yao, Chengxin You, "Control System Design and the

Power Management of MEFADEC Assembled on More-Electric Aircraft"

• S. Bozhko, S. Kovbasa, Y. Nikonenko, S. Peresada, "Direct vector control of induction motors

based on rotor resistance-invariant rotor flux observer"

• Xiaoyu Lang, Tao Yang, Hossein Balaghi Enalou, Serhiy Bozhko, Pat Wheeler, "An Enhanced

Power Generation Centre for More Electric Aircraft Applications"

• Feng Guo, Tao Yang, Serhiy Bozhko, Pat Wheeler, "3L-NPC AC-DC Power Converter Using

Virtual Space Vector PWM with Optimal Switching Sequence Based on g-h Coordinate"

• Ganeish Velmurugan, Serhiy Bozhko, Tao Yang, "A Review of Torque Ripple Minimization

Techniques in Switched Reluctance Machine"

• Seang Shen Yeoh, Mohamed Rashed, Serhiy Bozhko, Mike Sanders, "Variable DC Bus Voltage

Control Scheme for the More Electric Aircraft Power Generation System"

• Ahmed Diab, Chris Gerada, Mohamed Rashed, Serhiy Bozhko, "Performance Analysis of

PMSM for High-Speed Starter- Generator System"

• Hossein Balaghi Enalou, Mohamed Rashed, Ponggorn Kulsangcharoen, Shajjad Chowdhury,

Serhiy Bozhko, "A Twin Spool Engine Emulator for the Study of Power Exchange Idea"

• Alessandro Borghese, Michele Riccio, Giovanni Breglio, Asad Fayyaz, Alberto

Castellazzi, Andrea Irace, Luca Maresca, "Effect of Parameters Variability on the

Performance of SiC MOSFET Modules"

• Alireza Cheraghinezhad, Abdallah Hussein, Alberto Castellazzi, Katsuaki Saito, "Parametric

study of optimum gate-resistance for performance and short-circuit robustness of novel

half-bridge IGBT modules"

• Shane O’Donnell, Prof. Pat Wheeler, Dr. Alberto Castellazzi, "Reliability Analysis of SiC Power

Module for More Electric Aircraft Motor Drive Applications"

• Paolo Giangrande, Vincenzo Madonna, Stefano Nuzzo, Michael Galea, "Design of Fault-

Tolerant Dual Three-Phase Winding PMSM for Helicopter Landing Gear EMA"

• Vincenzo Madonna, Paolo Giangrande, Luca Lusuardi, Andrea Cavallini, Michael Galea,

"Impact of thermal overload on the insulation aging in short duty cycle motors for

aerospace"

• Ahmed A. Abdelrauf, Waseem W. Saad, Ahmed Hebala, Michael Galea, "Model Predictive

Control Based PID Controller for PMSM for Propulsion Systems"

• M. Lukic, A. Hebala, P. Giangrande, C. Klumpner, S. Nuzzo, G. Chen, C. Gerada, C. Eastwick,

M. Galea, "State of the Art of Electric Taxiing Systems"

• Dmitry Golovanov, Zeyuan Xu, David Gerada, Luca Papini, Chris Gerada, "A Holistic Electrical

Machine Design Tool for More-Electric and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft"

• Filippo Savi, Giampaolo Buticchi, Chris Gerada, Patrick Wheeler, Davide Barater, "Wide

Bandgap Voltage Source Inverter Design for Automotive Electric Drivetrain"

• Meiqi Wang, Boran Fan, Lie Xu, Kuiwang, Zedong Zheng, Yongdong Li, Chris Gerada, He

Zhang, Jing Li, "High Frequency Harmonic Current Generator for More Electric Aircraft

Based on GaN HFETs"

• Li Yu, Zhuoran Zhang, David Gerada, Chris Gerada, "Performance Comparison of Doubly

Salient Reluctance Generators for High-Voltage DC Power System of More Electric Aircraft"

• Vladimir Prakht, Dmitry Golovanov, Vladimir Dmitrievskii, David Gerada, "Design and

Mathematical Modeling of Gearless SMC Flux Reversal Motor"

• Niklas Fritz, Mohamed Rashed and Christian Klumpner, "Power Density Optimization of a

DC/DC Converter for an Aircraft Supercapacitors Energy Storage"

• Hayder K. Jahanger, Mark Sumner, David W.P. Thomas, "Influence of DGs on the Single-

Ended Impedance Based Fault Location Technique"

• Marco Rivera, Daniel Faundez, Johann Kolar, Patrick Wheeler, Jose A. Riveros, Sergio Toledo,

"Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits -

Part I"

• Marco Rivera, Daniel Faundez, Johann Kolar, Patrick Wheeler, Jose A. Riveros, Sergio Toledo,

"Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits -

Part II"

• Marco Rivera, Daniel Faundez, Johann Kolar, Patrick Wheeler, Jose A. Riveros, Sergio

Toledo, "A New Ground Power Unit (GPU) Supply for Aircraft Applications"

• Cristian Garcia and Jose Rodriguez, Shafiq Odhano and Pericle Zanchetta, S. Alireza Davari,

"Modulated Model Predictive Speed Control for PMSM Drives"

• H. B. Enalou, M. Rashed, P. Kulsangcharoen and S. Bozhko, "A Twin Spool Engine Emulator

for Studying power transfer between engine shafts"

• Besar Asllani, Hervé Morel, Dominique Planson, Asad Fayyaz, Alberto Castellazzi, "SiC power

MOSFETs Threshold-voltage hysteresis and its impact on Short Circuit operation"

• Mohamed A. A. Mohamed, Quanxue Guan, Mohamed Rashed, "Control of DC-DC Converter

for Interfacing Supercapcitors Energy storage to DC Micro Grids"

CSAA/IET International Conference on Aircraft Utility Systems

• Buticchi, G., Wheeler, P., Bozhko, S., Galea, M., Gerada, C., "Multiport DC/DC converters for

the more electric aircraft"

• Zhang, S., Yan, L., Li, B, Shi, J., Wu, S., Qu, Y. Shang, Y., Wang, X., Yang, L., Yao, N., Wang, T.

Zhao, L., Chang, S., Gerada, C., "Thermal field analysis and optimization of the U-core

permanent-magnet motor"

• Zhang, S., Yan, L., Li, B., Shi, J., Wu, S., Qu, Y., Shang, Y., Wang, X., Yang, L., Yao, N., Wang, T.,

Zhao, L., Chang, S., Gerada, C. , "Force modeling and control of servo motor control loading

system in flight simulator"

• Fan, L., Yang, T., Rashed, M., Bozhko, S., "Sensorless control of dual-three phase PMSM

based aircraft electric starter/generator system using model reference adaptive system

method"

IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility

• Ensini, L., Sandrolini, L., Thomas, D.W.P., Sumner, M., Rose, C., "Conducted Emissions on DC

Power Grids"

• Thomas, D.W.P., Sumner, M., Rose, C., Rawa, M., Ivry, P., Ensini, L., Sandrolini, L.,

"Characterisation of Low Frequency Disturbances on AC and DC Systems"

• Sandrolini, L., Thomas, D.W.P., Sumner, M., Rose, C., "Measurement and Evaluation of the

Conducted Emissions of a DC/DC Power Converter in the Frequency Range 2-150 kHz"

IPEC-Niigata - ECCE Asia 2018

• Valente, G., Papini, L., Formentini, A., Gerada, C., Zanchetta, P., "Open-Circuit Fault Tolerant

Study of Bearingless Multi-Sector Permanent Magnet Machines"

• Hussein, A., Castellazzi, A., "Variable frequency control and filter design for optimum energy

extraction from a SiC wind inverter"

• Castellazzi, A., Fayyaz, A., Gurpinar, E., Hussein, A., Li, J., Mouawad, B., "Multi-Chip SiC

MOSFET Power Modules for Standard Manufacturing, Mounting and Cooling"

ICERA 2018 - 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND

APPLICATIONS

• F. M. Aboshady, Mark Sumner and D. W. P. Thomas, "A Wideband Fault Location Scheme

for Active Distribution Systems"

SAE 2018 The Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference

• H. B. Enalou, J.-M. Le-Peuvedic, M. Rashed, and S. Bozhko, "Potential Improvements in

Turbofan's Performance by Electric Power Transfer"

Visitors

The PEMC Group is delighted to welcome visiting students and academics to the Department. The

following are visiting us for a short period of time:

• Rodrigo Aliaga

• Anuvav Bardalai - University of Nottingham Ningbo. Researching "Modelling and Analysis of

AC losses on High Speed electrical machines". With the PEMC Group until June 2019.

• Dr Feifei Bu - Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Researching electric

machines and drives for transportation electrification. With the PEMC Group until November

2019.

• Wei Choy

• Tiziano Daversa

• Tang Gung De

• Andrea Fregni - Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Researching multiphase

numerical simulations of oil jets for end-winding cooling. With the PEMC Group until June

2019.

• Dr Peng Gao - Tianjin University, China. Working on Design of high-speed permanent magnet

synchronous motor. With the PEMC Group until September 2019.

• Sergio Toledo Gallardo - Universidad de Talca, Chile. Researching predictive control applied

to the Two Stages Matrix Converter for distributed generation systems. Will be with the

PEMC Group until January 2019.

• Dr Yu-Ling He

• Xing Li - Hunan University. Working on Reactive Power Control of Matrix Converter and its

Applications. With the PEMC Group until September 2019

• Zhan Li - COllege of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. Working on power

converter fault detection. With the PEMC Group until February 2019.

• Prof Conggan Ma - Harbin Institute of Technology-Weihai, China. Researching

Electromagnetic Vibration and Noise of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor with 8 Poles

and 9 Slots. With the PEMC Group until November 2019.

• Ivan Petric

• Abdul Rahman - University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Researching "Multi-three-

phase Machine Control". With the PEMC Group until April 2020.

• Prof Marco Rivera - Universidad de Talca, Chile. Researching power electronics, mainly

predictive control applied to power converters. With the PEMC Group until January 2019.

• Luis Felipe Colque Miranda

• Guilia Simoni - University of Pisa. Researching homopolar machine used as starter generator

in aerospace application. With the PEMC Group until April 2019.

• Tommaso Transi

• Giovanni Ungaro - Università degli studi di Pavia. Working on his master's thesis which

studies matrix converters. With the PEMC Group until March 2019.

• Qi Wang - Southeast University. Researching control of PMSM. WIth the PEMC Group until

January 2020.

• Fengjun Wu - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Researching multilevel converters and

matrix converters for particle accelerator applications. With the PEMC Group until Oct 2019.

• Yun Xin

• Gongde Yang

• Zhiqiang Zeng - Zhejiang University, China. Researching High-speed permanent magnet

machines. With the PEMC Group until August 2019.

• Fengyu Zhang - University of Nottingham, China Campus. Working on thermal management

of electrical machines. With the PEMC Group until June 2019.

• Hengliang Zhang - North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China. Working on

Mechanics characteristic analysis and vibration control of high-speed aerospace electric

machine. With the PEMC Group until August 2019.

Group Social Activities

PEMC Group members are an active bunch! Badminton, hiking, football - group members have been

out and about, making the most of the University's sporting facilities and the beautiful local

countryside.

Walking

In October, PEMC Group members had their last walk of 2018, hiking between Wetton, Staffordshire

to Thor's Cave, to Ilam Hall, and then back again! If you're a PEMC Group member and interested in

taking part in a hike, please contact Stewart Marchant.

3 - PEMC Walking Group

Contact Us

Contact details for academics, researchers and PhDs in the PEMC Group are on the University

website.

General enquiries should be sent to pemc@nottingham.ac.uk