September 2018 – A lot of travelling

Conference season was in full a swing as I attended my final 2 conferences of 2018.

ICEM

Hosted at Alexandroupli, Greece, the International Conference on Electrical machines was well attended by the Electrical Power Group, where we presented 9 papers.

@Power_Group_NCL Proud of 9 papers from @EngineeringNCL at International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM 2018 pic.twitter.com/7P5ZzlxfBb

— nick baker (@Prof_Nick_Baker) September 7, 2018

Inlcuding 4 from my team

Lots of interesting work going on around the world in Vernier Hybrid machines, PM machine topologies and linear machine work. Really good conference.

The work we presented is here.

10.1109/ICELMACH.2018.8506988

10.1109/ICELMACH.2018.8507192

10.1109/ICELMACH.2018.8506731

10.1109/ICELMACH.2018.8506954

https://twitter.com/Raihan_Nadal/status/1038362105391599621

Successfully presented the very first bread of the linear cylindrical vernier machine completely made of #Soft_Magnetic_Composites from @HoganasAB as a part of the International Conference on Electrical Machine (ICEM’18) for the team of @Power_Group_NCL at Alexandroupolis, Greece pic.twitter.com/U3majjxBK6

— Raihan Nadal (@Raihan_Nadal) September 8, 2018

(Raihan has not really built a bread machine, but is claiming a new breed of machine)

Of course, would be rude to go to Greece and not have a quick look around.

RPG 2018

This year’s IET conference on renewable power generation was hosted by DTU in Copenhagan. We presented 3 pieces of work on tidal energ, linear machines and power converters. for a conference with a fairly narrow title, there was a wide range of topics presented.

I finally got to give a presentation on the work we have done on the economics of teh generator in the OpenHydro tidal stream device. Sadly, a few months after OpenHydro went into liquidation.

I also represented a poster on the feasibility of linear magnetic gears, co-written by colleagues in Edinburgh.

A couple of other pictures…

4 of us from @EngineeringNCL Presenting recent work on renewable wave, wind and tidal energy at #ietrpg Copenhagen pic.twitter.com/zSbqnbeAJJ

— nick baker (@Prof_Nick_Baker) September 27, 2018

First day at #RPG’18 @Power_Group_NCL @UniofNewcastle successfully presented multiple papers and posters during the prestigious @TheIET event #RenewablePowerGenerationConference (RPG’18) pic.twitter.com/mEpdBDJHsB

— Raihan Nadal (@Raihan_Nadal) September 26, 2018