Course info

Course Overview


This course provides an overview of the present and future architectures of maritime microgrids, associated control technologies, optimization methods, power quality issues and state of the art solutions. The material presented and the contents discussed in this course are based on real-use cases and will be extremely useful to develop insights into the control, optimization and energy management of integrated power systems for maritime industry practitioners and researchers.



Learning Objectives

  • Illustrate the shipboard power system and integrated electric applications in ships.
  • Analyse maritime microgrid characteristics and power quality challenges in shipboard microgrid power systems
  • Categorize the ship's power systems evolution and identify the  directions for future research challenges.



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Course Structure

  • Lesson 1 - Introduction to Microgrids
  • Lesson 2 - Introduction to Shipboard power system
  • Lesson 3 - Shipboard Microgrid configurations
  • Lesson 4 - Power Quality Challenges in Shipboard Microgrids

Teacher

Josep Guerrero

Josep M. Guerrero received the
B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering, the M.S. degree in electronics
engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from the Technical
University of Catalonia, Barcelona, in 1997, 2000 and 2003, respectively. Since
2011, he has been a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology,
Aalborg University, Denmark, where he is responsible for the Microgrid Research
Program. From 2012 he has been a guest Professor at the Chinese Academy of
Science and the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and from
2014 he has been chair Professor in Shandong University.

Coauthor

Tomasz Tarasiuk

Tomasz Tarasiuk is the vice dean of the electrical engineering department of Gdynia Maritime University. His research interests include power quality analysis, assessment and signal processing methods applied to maritime microgrids.

Coauthor

Giorgio Sulligoi

Giorgio Sulligoi is Assistant Professor of electric power generation and control in the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

Tutor

Mashood Nasir

Mashood Nasir received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore, Pakistan and MS in Electrical Engineering from UMT Lahore, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan in 2009 and 2011, and 2018 respectively. From 2011 to 2012, he served as a lecturer and from 2013-2014 he served as an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering department at UMT, Lahore. From, May 2017 to Nov 2017 he was a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the Microgrid Laboratory in Aalborg University Denmark. From 2018-2019 he served as an assistant professor at Lahore University of Management Science. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research fellow at Aalborg University Denmark. His research interests mainly include but not limited to power electronics, electrical machines and drives, grid integration of alternate energy resources, electrochemical energy conversion and battery storage systems and AC/DC/Hybrid microgrids.