ENERGIA LAB: Sustainable Power Conversion
Power converters are key enablers for high-impact areas including sustainable energy and transportation, electrochemical energy storage, energy harvesting, and smart grids. The highly interdisciplinary research targets both fundamentally novel concepts and application-specific innovation to improve efficiency and power quality while minimizing size, weight, and failure rates.
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Research Areas
Power Converter Modelling & Control
Developing smarter and more effective ways to control power converters. The goal is to create firmware that gets the most out of power conversion hardware.
Energy Systems Integration
Embedding optimization and system support functionality into power converters, the research aims to improve performance and reliability in modern energy systems.
Multi-domain Systems
Creating accurate models and enhanced controllers for large wind turbines, electric vehicle traction systems, and battery energy storage systems by incorporating analysis in electrical, mechanical, thermal, chemical, and hybrid domains.
Power Conversion Hardware Optimization
Designing new power conversion hardware able to improve efficiency, power density, and reliability while minimizing cost.
Magnetic Devices
Magnetic elements, such as inductors and transformers, are at the core of power conversion technology. Improving their design can yield significant benefits in efficiency, power density and reliability.