Presented by the SNAME Texas Section
Registration will close end of day Monday, December 13
Modern wind energy conversion systems (WECS) appeared in the 90s. In this early phase of wind energy applications, many WECS have been installed offshore in the North Sea. That area is known after the constant wind speed. This fact was quite important for the WECS system development since squirrel cage induction generators could be used. On the other hand, Adriatic region has been characterized by rapid wind speed changes. That means constant wind speed solutions have to be improved in order to operate at different wind speeds. Since then, variable wind speed energy conversion systems were developed and installed in many places involving sophisticated regulating systems and terrain impact to system design. For instance, Croatian WECS systems are onshore systems with double-fed induction generators. WECS state of art with terrain influence have been analyzed with examples from Adriatic region.
Invited speaker/presenter
Sasa Sladic, Ph.D.
Sasa Sladic was born in Rijeka, Croatia in 1975. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in 2001, 2005 and 2010 respectively from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia except M.S. degree which he obtained from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He spent 10 months in Laboratory CETA (Centro di Ecologia Teorica e Applicata) in Trieste, Italy targeting the new solutions for renewables. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Power Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijek, Croatia. His research interests include power electronics applications more precisely converters for solar and wind energy conversion systems, bidirectional power converters for applications in transport, active power filters for single and three phase systems and electric drives. He received SNAME award in 2018 as coauthor for best conference paper targeting electrical installations in frame of lean ship construction.