Advanced Power Converters for Electric Drives and Renewable Energy Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Advanced power electronic converters have been receiving increasing attention from academia and industry in recent decades, particularly in the areas of Renewable Energy Systems (RESs) and Electric Drives (EDs). 

In RESs, power converters increase efficiency to reduce total power losses, while improving controllability and increasing the reliability of the full system by providing grid support and fault-ride-through capability. Power converters enable efficient and reliable integration of these energy sources into existing electrical grids and power systems.  In addition, such converters help to mitigate power quality issues such as voltage fluctuations, harmonics, and many others.

In modern EDs, advanced power converters enable efficient, reliable, and controllable operation across a wide range of applications. Electric drives rely on power converters to control the speed, torque, and direction of electric motors. Converters regulate the voltage and current supplied to the motor. Specific challenges facing advanced power converters in electric drives include high switching losses, electromagnetic interference (EMI), thermal management, and the need for robust and reliable operation.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest advancements in power converters for Electric Drives and Renewable Energy Systems, striving to gather pioneering research and technological innovations.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

(i) Power Converters

* Emerging power converter topologies;

* Modern power electronic converters;

* Wide-bandgap power semiconductors, silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), in power converters;

* Advances in modulation strategies and control techniques;

* High-power converters and multilevel converters;

* Bidirectional power converters;

* Advanced power converter for doubly fed induction generators;

* Advances in magnetic energy harvester technology for power converters.

(ii) Power converters for Electric Drives and Renewable Energy Systems;

* Advanced power converters are key for energy transition, enabling the efficient integration of renewable energy sources and electric drives into the power grid; 

* Power electronics supporting the transition from traditional, centralized power systems to modern, decentralized, and sustainable energy systems; 

* New emerging technologies of advance power converters for EDs and RESs;

* Aging mechanisms of power converters, EDs and RESs.

(iii) Power converters for Electric Drives

*  In electric drives, advanced power converters for the energy transition facilitate the efficient operation of electric vehicles;

*  Power electronics for electric drives in oil and gas applications;

* Multiphase machines, induction machines, permanent magnet synchronous machines, synchronous reluctance machines, switched reluctance machines, brushless DC machines, and emerging PM machines, together with their drives, and more, as well as how advanced control strategies for all types of electric drives and power electronic converters can be tailored to specific application requirements.

(iv) Power converters for Renewable energy systems;

* Advanced power converters facilitate the conversion and control of electrical power from sources like solar, wind, and batteries;

* Grid-forming converters and their control strategies.

Dr. Luis Vazquez-Seisdedos
Dr. Augusto Matheus dos Santos Alonso
Guest Editors

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• electric drives
• power electronic converters
• renewable energy
• energy transition
• modern power systems
• sustainable energy systems