Maritime Microgrids (2024)

Organiser: Professor Josep M. Guerrero, joz@energy.aau.dk and Professor Juan C. Vasquez, juq@energy.aau.dk

Lecturers: Professor Josep M. Guerrero, Aalborg University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Abderezak Lashab, Aalborg University, Assistant Prof., Najmeh Bazmohammadi, Aalborg University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Peilin Xie, Aalborg University.

ECTS: 2

Date/Time: 13-14 May 2024

Deadline: 22 April 2024

Place: AAU Energy, Pontoppidanstraede 101, Aalborg, Denmark

Format: Hybrid

Max no. of participants: 20

Nowadays, an important kind of islanded microgrids can be found in maritime power systems. For example, under normal operating conditions, the ship power system can be considered as a typical isolated microgrid and its characteristics, including variable frequency, are matched to terrestrial islanded microgrids. This course provides an overview of the present and future architectures of such microgrids, associated control technologies, optimization methods, power quality issues and state of the art solutions. The significant role of power electronics in realizing maritime microgrids, challenges in meeting high power requirements and regulations in the maritime industry, state-of-the-art power electronic technologies and future trend towards the use of medium voltage power converters in maritime microgrids are also presented in this course.

• Day 1: Introduction on Electric Ships, power quality approaches and challenges: Josep M. Guerrero (3h), Abderezak Lashab (4h)
• Day 2: DC shipboard microgrids: Evolution and Research: Najmeh Bazmohammadi (2.5h), Peilin Xie (2.5h), Abderezak Lashab (2h)

Price:  6000 DKK for PhD students outside of Denmark and 8000 DKK for the Industry excl. VAT.
A link for online payment by credit card for externals participants will be annonced after deadline for registration

Prerequisites: The course exercises will be done via Matlab/Simulink simpowersytems.

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Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.