2011 IEEE SDEMPED - Program

Program - PLENARY SESSION

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - Room Prodi

History of SDEMPED

Gérard-André Capolino, IEEE Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Picardie “Jules Verne”, France

Biography - Gérard-André Capolino (A’77, M’82, SM’89, F’02) received the BSc in electrical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Marseille, Marseille, France in 1974, the MSc from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, Paris, France in 1975, the PhD from University Aix-Marseille I, Marseille, France in 1978 and the DSc from Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France in 1987. Since 1994, he has Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Picardie “Jules Verne”, Amiens, France. He is the co-founder of SDEMPED (with Professor G. Buja) which he chaired two times in 1997 and 2009. Dr. Capolino has been the recipient of the 2008 IEEE-IES Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award and the 2010 ICEM Arthur Ellison Achievement Award.

Abstract - Among all the power electrical engineering conferences organized all around the world, only one is fully dedicated to diagnostics for electrical machines, power electronics and drives. The Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (the so called SDEMPED) has been launched in 1997 in order to meet the requirements of the diagnostics community. Starting by its very first edition in Carry-le-Rouet, France with almost 60 attendees, the event has reached its maturity with around 100 attendees in each edition organized in early September every odd year. Since 2003 and the Atlanta edition, SDEMPED is a full IEEE conference (sponsored by PELS) and all the papers presented could be accessed in IEEEXplore^© digital library. The aim of this presentation is to recall the history of SDEMPED passing through all the locations in which it has been organized, all the general chairs with photos, anecdotes and more.

Winding Insulation for Converter Fed Rotating Machines Stress
Strength, Design, Qualification & Diagnostics

Dr. Martin Kaufhold
Siemens AG
Industry DT Large Drives Vice President Q&T

Biography - Martin Kaufhold was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1964. He graduated as Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering in 1991 and worked at the Dresden Institute for High Voltage and High Current Engineering in the field of high-voltage and diagnostic technologies, as well as machine insulation for converter technologies. In 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. degree there in electrical engineering. From 1994–1996 he joined the National Research Council of Canada as a postdoc fellow and research officer. While at the NRC, he was involved in research projects of high-voltage engineering and dielectric diagnostics for energy transmission using HV cables, GIS/GIL, and overhead power lines. Since 1996, he has been working with Siemens Large Drives in various positions, in the development of insulation, winding, and diagnostic technologies, in the development and project management of large synchronous machines, in the sales of large propulsion drives as well as in advanced research and development and in Quality. Dr. Kaufhold is now Vice President of Quality and Technology in the global Siemens Large Drives Group. He is member of IEEE, CIGRE and VDI/VDE. He is the convener of the IEC TC2 working group MT10 for qualification of winding insulation systems for rotating machines, taking care of the IEC 60034-18 series.

Reliability in French Power System

Pierre Michaux
Secrétariat général
RTE - Réseau de transport d'électricité, France

"Electricity takes more and more strategic stakes in our western societies. Consequently, supply interruptions implies greater and greater impact connected to the duration and geographical cuts. In France, based on responsabilities given by law, RTE does ensure the reliability of the network. The power system reliability is characterized by the global behaviour of a very large number of components connected over all Europe, monitored and controlled by a lot of TSOs, the instantaneous response to any perturbation and the absence of strored energy."