Our project manager, Dr. Mar Tristany, has participated in the PAN EUROPEAN NMP CLUSTER VISION2020 organized by LEITAT the 31st October in Terrassa. The event focused on addressing the Horizon 2020 NMP2014 calls for proposals, and included talks by several invited speakers from Vision 2020, the EU and industry. During the Open Brokerage Session, we presented some proposal ideas for the NMP Calls 2015.
http://www.2020visionnetwork.eu/
Our PhD student Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Rosillo has attended to the 6th Spanish Workshop in Nanolithography meeting (NANOLITO 2014) which was held in Zaragoza at the Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragon facilities. He presented a poster entitled “Resistive Switching phenomena in La1-xSrxMnO3-y compounds: a local probe microscopy study”. The picture is a night view of the Catedral del Pilar in Zaragoza.
http://unizar.es/nanolito/nanolito2014/
J. Zabaleta, M. Jaafar, A. Asenjo, S. Agramunt-Puig, N. Del-Valle, C. Navau, A. Sanchez, T. Puig, X. Obradors and N. Mestres.
APL Materials. 2, 076111 (2014)
On September 8th 2014, the student Jorge Silva from Lisbon (Portugal) arrived to SUMAN group to develop his thesis from his 5-year Integrated Master in Electrical Engineering and Computers (Bachelor (3) + Master (2)), which he is completing in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. This program is mostly known as Erasmus Placement or Erasmus Professional.
He will be working on “Modelling of Superconducting Bulks and Stacks for Electrical Machines Application” under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Granados during the next 6 months.
Welcome Jorge!
J. Lloberas, A. Sumper, M. Sanmarti and X. Granados
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 38, 404-414 (2014)
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.05.003
Large synchronous generators with high temperature superconductors are in constant development due to their advantages such as weight and volume reduction and the increased efficiency compared with conventional technologies. The offshore wind turbine market is growing by the day, increasing the capacity and energy production of the wind farms installed and increasing the electrical power for the electrical generators installed, consequently raising the total volume and weight for the electrical generators installed. The HTS synchronous generators (HTSSG) are an alternative to consider due to their low dimensions and low weight per megawatt. This article presents a detailed review of the geometric configurations of the large HTSSG for offshore wind energy followed by an explanation of the main non-conventional technological parts. Additionally, the experience from the most important projects – both ongoing and completed – by companies and research institutes related to the design and construction of HTSSG for offshore wind energy is reviewed.
