By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Thu, 2007-05-03 22:48
Jan J. M. Desmet (M’01) was born in Kortrijk, Belgium, on March 30, 1960. He received the polytechnical engineer degree from the polytechnic in Kortrijk Belgium in 1983 and the M.S degree in electrical engineering in 1993 from the V.U.Brussels Belgium. Since 1984 he is member of the staff of the Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen Dept. P.I.H. He is professor at the Dept. P.I.H. teaching variable speed drives and industrial electric measurement techniques. His research interests include variable speed drives, rational use of electrical energy and power quality.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Tue, 2007-03-13 23:30
Marcel Didden was born in Heerlen (NL) in 1974. He received his MSc.-degree in Electrical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen (Germany) in 1998. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. with his thesis ‘Techno-Economic analysis of methods to reduce damage due to voltage dips’ at the KULeuven (Belgium). Until 2006 he worked at Laborelec as a consultant in the area of Power Quality and Energy Auditing.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Sat, 2007-03-10 14:21
Mr. Howe is the Program Manager for Power Quality Research at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) with international utility membership of approximately 50 leading companies. Mr. Howe’s primary areas of expertise are:
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Fri, 2007-02-16 15:42
Antoni Klajn was graduated by the Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland), Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1977 (M.Sc.) and in 1980 (Ph.D). From 1981 he is with the same University, where his teaching activities concern fields related to electrical substations, equipment and installations, especially intelligent installations in buildings, grounding systems and power quality problems.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Fri, 2007-01-12 15:49
Born January 7, 1962. He graduated from Wroclaw Technical University in 1986 with M.Sc. in power engineering. He has experience in marketing and sales as well as in project management from ABB where he worked between 1991 and 1999 for generator manufacturer. He moved than to Polish open pit mining machinery industry – Famago - as Sales & Marketing Director, Member of the Board. From June, 2000 in European Copper Institute, based in Polish Copper Promotion Centre. He post graduated from ABB Executive Management MBA program.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Fri, 2007-01-12 02:02
Jean-Francois Christin is Bachelor of Science from Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S.C., U.S.A. (1990) Master from Schneider Institute (1994) Join MGE UPS SYSTEMS, at the Technical & Sales Support dept for EMEA area (1996) In charge of business development & sales support for South Asia and Pacific area (1998) Technical Marketing manager for Europe / International Area (2002) Use Of Supercapacitor As Energy Storage Device For Ups (Feb.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Fri, 2007-01-12 01:59
Johan Driesen (S’93–M’97) graduated as an M.Sc. in Elec− trical Engineering and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven), Leuven, Belgium, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Lecturer with Imperial College, London, U.K. In 2002, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the F.W.O.−Vl. at KULeuven. and a professor teaching electrical drives courses at KULeuven.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Fri, 2007-01-12 01:28
Andreas Sumper Graduated as a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Dipl.−Ing.) at the Technical University of Graz, Austria, in 2000. From 2000 to 2001, he was an international project manager in the private industry. In 2002, he joined the Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), where he is currently completing his PhD. At CITCEA, he is executing research and innovation projects with the local industry in the field of power quality. His research interests are power quality, power system reliability and distributed generation.
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Contributions to Leonardo ENERGY
Paper - Successful Power Quality Monitoring
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Mon, 2007-01-08 17:22
Kurt Schipman received his M.Sc. degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) in 1993 and his Ph.D. degree from Staffordshire University (U.K.) in 1997. His Ph.D. research focused on the development of control algorithms for active filters for HVDC applications. Since 1997 he has worked with ABB n.v. Power Quality Products (Belgium), an ABB center of excellence for Low Voltage Network Quality products.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Tue, 2007-01-02 16:44
Mark works with electric utilities worldwide in a wide variety of technical areas. His main focus has been in the areas of power quality assessments, system monitoring, transient and harmonic studies, and economic evaluations. He has developed and taught seminars on a wide range of topics related to reliability, power quality and distribution system analysis. He is a co-author of the premier book on power quality concerns, Electric Power Systems Quality. Mark is active in both national and international standards development. He is Vice-Chairma
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Wed, 2006-12-06 23:30
Author and co-author of more than 120 technical and scientific papers. Editor-in-chief of the periodicals: Power Quality and Utilization and Power Engineering and Electronics. Area of interest includes electrical power quality, particularly methods of reducing the influence of power converters on supply network. Member of the research teams of national and international grants and projects. Consultant in industry.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Tue, 2006-12-05 14:56
Ronnie Belmans received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1979 and the Ph.D. degree in 1984, both from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium, the Special Doctorate in 1989 and the Habilitierung in 1993, both from the RWTH, Aachen, Germany. Currently, he is a full professor with the K.U.Leuven, teaching electric power and energy systems. His research interests include techno-economic aspects of power systems, power quality and distributed generation. He is also guest professor at Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, London-UK. Since June 2002 he is chairman of the board of directors of ELIA, the Belgian transmission grid operator.
Selected contributions
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Thu, 2006-11-09 00:03
Stefan Fassbinder, born 1955, is an electrical engineer at DKI Deutsches Kupfer-Institut, a non-profit organization representing the copper industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. DKI was founded in 1927 to provide free advice and assistance to all users of copper and copper alloys in industry, institutes, universities and also to individuals, students, artists and the general public.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Sun, 2006-11-05 12:29
Hans De Keulenaer is programme manager ‘Electricity & Energy’ at the European Copper Institute (ECI), a non-profit organisation working towards the support and expansion of copper and copper alloys’ markets in Europe. His responsibilities at the ECI comprise strategic planning, market research, campaign development and programme management. Hans De Keulenaer obtained his Master degree in electrical engineering and MBA from the University of Louvain (Belgium).
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