The Chair for Power Electronics is part of the Europe-wide PowerizeD Research Initiative.

The big kick-off meeting of the European PowerizeD Research Initiative was held at the beginning of February. 62 research partners from 13 European countries, including the Chair of Power Electronics of TU Dresden, are part of the large-scale European project with a total budget of 72 million euros. TUD scientists support the project with their expertise in the field of power semiconductors and converters. PowerizeD is designed to take sustainability and resilience of the European energy chain from generation to application to a whole new level and strengthen Europe's technological sovereignty. It explores an innovative level of technology and expands the digitalization of power electronics applications.

Dresden-based researchers are working with other project partners to develop an intelligent control system for power electronic components that simplifies the parallelization of components and increases the performance of power converters through improved control. Another focus are prognostics for industrial drives for early detection of faults and component failure.

"The importance of power electronics will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years. Improved control methods and an expansion of digitalization in power converters will enable a reduction in costs as well as an increase in the efficiency, performance and reliability of power converters," says Prof. Steffen Bernet, holder of the Chair of Power Electronics.

PowerizeD is coordinated by Infineon Technologies AG. The project partners are concentrating on applications in the fields of energy and mobility. 17 demonstration tracks will focus on improving electric drives in rail cars, charging systems for the automotive industry, liquid batteries for the energy industry, and electric drives for the manufacturing industry. Researchers will also address topics such as improving reliability and sustainability, applying artificial intelligence, and modeling and simulating power electronic components, i.e., developing so-called digital twins.

Source: Infineon

Contact:
Dirk Rudolph
TU Dresden
Institute of Electrical Power Engineering
Chair of Power Electronics
+49 351-463-33191