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PEMD 2012 will attract the world’s leading engineers from industry, research and academia to discuss, debate and learn about the latest developments and future trends in electrical drives, machines and power electronic systems.

This three day conference is packed full of content including high quality presentations from the world’s leading experts, intimate tutorials proving the opportunity to question, a social programme and networking events.

PEMD 2012 is a must attend event for those involved in applications, research and experience within this industry.

Find out more

You can find out more about PEMD by visiting the website. You can view the PEMD 2010 published papers, purchase the proceedings and watch presentations via IET.tv.

Technical scope for 2012

The PEMD 2012 organising committee welcomes contributions in the general area of power electronics, machines and drives. These can range from research concepts and ideas to technical issues and industrial applications.

Contributions are encouraged from, but not limited to, the themes and topics in the following areas:

Theme A – more / all electric transport:

1. Railway systems
2. Marine propulsion, drives and power systems
3. More-electric aircraft technologies
4. Actuation systems
5. Starter/generator systems
6. Electric/ fuel cell/ hybrid vehicles
7. Automotive systems
8. System control

Theme B – Generation, transmission and distribution

1. Converters for grid connection
2. FACTS, grids and micro-grids
3. Superconducting components and systems
4. Embedded generation
5. Synchronous machines and special generators
6. Power quality and protection
7. HVDC
8. Energy efficiency and demand side control

Theme C – Machines and drives

1. Integrated drives and applications
2. Energy efficient drives
3. Fault tolerant drives
4. Motion control systems
5. Advanced and sensorless machine control
6. Induction, permanent-magnet and reluctance machines
7. Special machines
8. Actuators and linear machines
9. Condition monitoring
10. Design and modelling

Theme D – Power electronics

1. Switch-mode power supplies
2. Resonant converters
3. Power factor correction / active filters
4. Converters for special applications
5. Matrix and multi-level converters
6. EMC and power quality
7. Thermal management
8. Power semiconductor devices, packaging and materials
9. Power converter control
10. Capacitors, inductors, transformers and other components

Theme E – Renewable energy systems

1. Tidal, wave, sea, river and hydro power systems
2. Solar PV (incl MPP schemes)
3. Wind power (on-shore and off-shore)
4. Fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors and other storage devices
5. Grid issues and plug-in hybrid grid
6. Distributed generation
7. Control of power distribution
8. Energy efficiency
9. Reliability

This list is not exclusive, and an other option is available in each theme.

Full details for submitting authors will be available shortly at the PEMD website.

Cost

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