PCIM 1999 June 22 - 24, [pcim992.gif (2897 Byte)] Nürnberg/Germany Conference & Seminar Program Seminars Registration PCIM 2000 Statement Organizer's Statement Conference Conference Director Invitation Director Intelligent Power Conversion by Gerd E. Zieroth Motion Conference Program: Overviews PCIM 99 Key-Note Papers PCIM 99 Sessions Conference Program: Direct Access Power Conversion Intelligent Power Quality Motion PCIM '99 Key-Note Papers / Invited Papers - Overwiev Realibility of High-Power Eckhard Wolfgang, Power Semicontudctor Siemens Germany Conversion Tuesday Devices Industrial applications of Renee Spee, Maxwell Power Tuesday Supercapacitors Technologies, USA Conversion Simulation of Prof. Sam Ben-Yaakov, Power Conversion Ben-Gurion Power Tuesday Systems University, Israel Conversion Component AC Drives - Market R. Timmer, ABB Intelligent Demands & Key Industry OY Drives, Motion Tuesday Technologies Finnland Impacts on Energy Savings by Variable-Speed P. Thogersen, DanfossIntelligent Drives from Motor Drives A/S, Denmark Motion Tuesday & Converter Technology Integrated Drives for Industrial S. Williamson, Brook Intelligent Tuesday applications Hanson, Great BritainMotion High Performance Drives require M. Cade, Control accurate Techniques, Great Intelligent Tuesday Parameter Britain Motion Estimation Power Electronic Terry Ericsen, OfficePower Building Blocks of Naval Research, Conversion Wednesday USA The Fred Flatt, Electrification International Power Wednesday of the Automobile Rectifier, USA Conversion Power Semiconductors in Manfred Bruckmann, Power Transistorized Dr. Eric Baudelot, Conversion Wednesday Converters Siemens, Germany Automotive Electronics with F. Flatt, particular International Intelligent Wednesday reference by Rectifier, USA Motion power steering Power Switch - Standard Small Daniel Chatroux, CEA Power Components VALRHO, France Conversion Thursday Strategy Converter Control Jacques Laeuffer, Power Thursday SEE, France Conversion Electric Machine Cores from soft magentics Prof. A. Jack, Composites: University of Intelligent Thursday Experience, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Motion Possibilities & Great Britain Practabilities Multidisciplinary Prof. F. Blaabjerg, design of P.O. Rasmussen, J. Intelligent Thursday electrical drives Pedersen, Aalborg Motion University, Denmark DSP applocations Dr. S. Beierke, Texas in advanced Instruments, Germany intelligent Prof. Peter Vas, Intelligent Thursday Motion Control: University of Motion The Future Aberdeen, Great Britain --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PCIM Conference '99 - Sessions & Dates Overview Power Conversion Intelligent Motion Power Tuesday Industrial Tuesday Semiconductors morning Drives morning Tuesday Dialogue New Components morning Sessions Tuesday noon Power Tuesday Motion Control Tuesday Integration afternoon & Automation afternoon Passive Tuesday Vehicle Wednesday Components afternoon Auxiliaries morning Converters & Wednesday Dialogue Circuits morning Sessions Wednesday noon High Power Wednesday Control Wednesday Converters noon Techniques afternoon New Low Power Wednesday Developments Wednesday Converters afternoon in Machines afternoon Thursday Machine Design Thursday Converters morning & applications morning Improved Component & Thursday Dialogue Thursday noon Realibility afternoon Sessions Components & Medium Power Thursday System Thursday Converter afternoon Realisation afternoon POWER QUALITY SESSION AT PCIM 1999 Invitation by PCIM Organizer Gerd E. Zieroth Dear Conference Participant, COME FOR POWER - this is my personal invitation to you on the occasion of the 20th European anniversary of the PCIM International Conference. We have organised this event every year in Europe since 1979. At first the location varied between Munich, Geneva, Paris, and Hanover, but in 1991 we came to Nuremberg and here we have remained. Nuremberg has proved an excellent location in every way, combining superb Conference facilities with the most modern Exhibition Halls. It caters for the interest of Conference participants in the parallel Exhibition, and allows exhibiting companies to attract not only Conference delegates but all qualified visitors to their stands. After so many years, Nuremberg with its central location in the heart of Europe has become the universally accepted high-tech meeting point for Power Electronics, Drives, Motion and Control and Power Quality. During the twenty years we have published 1707 technical papers, all presented for the first time. Our authors have been drawn from the world´s leading experts, and we thank them for the personal commitment they continue to show to our Conference. This year´s event marking twenty years is a landmark in our history, which we are celebrating in many ways. Together with our International Technical Advisory Board, we have selected - out of the highest number of abstracts ever submitted - two hundred presentations of the highest quality, which are listed in the program pages which follow. The program is well structured not only for its traditional strength in application-oriented, ready-to-use contributions, but for the look into the future it offers with the advent of the next millenium. Such "visionary contributions" are being presented by some of the most eminent and experienced personalities in the power electronics industry and the universities. For the last two years POWER QUALITY has been a separate conference, but the industry is changing and we are in process of restructuring to better meet its needs. For this reason there is one session only dedicated to POWER QUALITY. Papers will be printed in the Power Conversion conference proceedings. For the restructured POWER QUALITY Conference in the year 2000, we shall be issuing a new Call for Papers which we are sure will meet with your approval. Last but not least, in response to your demand we have increased the number of one-day seminars from 16 last year to 28 this year. There is ever-increasing interest in taking part in these, additionally to the main three-day PCIM Conference sessions. So we welcome you with great confidence to this top 1999 event in the world of power electronics and all its associated technologies. Again we offer accommodation at reduced prices - see page 70. If however you wish to consider more economical alternatives, please contact us. Nuremberg has many pensions priced between DM 70 and DM 100 including breakfast which cannot all be printed here, but our team will be glad to help you with reservations. Travel arrangements are detailed on page 72 , where you will see that for the first time we are offering special prices on flights to Nuremberg from several European countries. Please make your booking as soon as possible, as the number of such reservations is of course limited. Whatever you would like to know, please contact our PCIM organisation team. We shall be delighted to help. So let us celebrate twenty years of PCIM Europe together. COME FOR POWER to Nuremberg in 1999, and be well prepared for the next millenium. Yours sincerely, Gerd E. Zieroth, President ZM Communications GmbH --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statement Conference Director Power Conversion by Prof. Jean Marie Peter, SEE France 20 years PCIM Europe anniversary - I invite you to take part in this powerful congress! 20 years ago the PCIM Europe conference, with speakers from all over the world, was launched as the first international conference for POWER ELECTRONICS with first time published and application oriented contributions. Now we can state that this conference has developed very successfully in supporting the fast growing industry. This year we have the highest number of abstracts for consideration which we ever had - and with high quality contents. You will find a very extensive Power Electronics program, with additionally specialized parallel sessions - you can better choose out of this large offer your special needs! Last year we started with key-note papers about future trends and the interest was high. We followed this way and offer now 9 different topics. What does key-note paper mean? A presentation done by a world recognized specialist in a field of Power Electronics. We asked each key-note speaker to give: 1. Some words about the state-of- the- art of his topic with an independant view 2. His own opinion about the major future trends in his special field Prof. Dr. E. Wolfgang from SIEMENS, Semiconductor devision, GERMANY. Reliability of High Power Semiconductor Devices. What will the future requirements be? Approaches to solutions for minimising risks, new components, materials abd designs. R. Spée, MAXWELL TECHNOLOGY, USA. Industrial Applications of Supercapacitors. What could be the consequences of this emerging new technology in the field of 25 to 200kW? Prof. S. Ben-Yaakov, Ben-Gurion University, ISRAEL. Simulation of Power Conversion Systems. There are new approaches just being developed such as envelope average simulation - what is the future of power conversion system simulation? T. Ericsen, Office of Naval Research, USA. Power Electronics Building Blocks. Plug and play modules combining digital control, robust circuits enable modular systems with lower size, weigt and costs. What will be the future of the NAVY in this field? F. Flett, International Rectifier, USA. The Electrification of the Automobile. Vehicle electric systems will soon become a standard and future electrification will dictate higher power efficiency and move to higher voltage operation. What about the economic results? M. Bruckmann, SIEMENS, A&D Devision, GERMANY. Power Semiconductors in Transistorized Converters. Integration of converter functions lead to an ease in converter design and size reduction. Single chip inverters, high current IGBT modules, high voltage IGBT modules are available, new semiconductor materials are emerging - What can be expected in the field of power converters in the future ? I.D. Jitaru, ROMPOWER, USA. High Efficiency Rectification. The majority of supply voltages for control will be drastically reduced. The design engineer must use new methods in order to increase efficiency and power density. Are smart drivers for synchronized rectification future trends? D. Chatroux, CEA VALRHO, FRANCE. Power Switch: The Standard Small Component Strategy. High power switches with big modules - or power switches made of standard small components in matrix. Practical experience shows a very high level in reliability provided by failure tolerance with specific designs. What are the future trends? J. Laeuffer, SEE, France. Converter Control. Control circuits are made of operational amplifiers for regulation and PALs or FPGAs for proximity control. Will the evaluation lead to drastic dynamic improvements with new microlectronics circuits and functions? I wish that you will return from PCIM 1999 first with a lot of new, concrete informations very useful for your job. Second that you find, due to the high-level opinions of our key-note speakers, useful ideas for the future - to think about the future, or why not, to dream about new solutions... Yours sincerely, Prof. Jean-Marie Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statement Conference Director Power Conversion by Prof. Peter Lawrenson, SR Drives Great Britain This year the quality, range and number of the papers received have been outstanding throughout and, taken together are clearly the best yet. Also the balance has been different and, more over, there has been a much appreciated willingness by major companies and acknowlegded experts to contribute invited presentations on various topical and key areas. As a result the final programme comes much closer to the targets which delegates have asked for over the years. Particularly these are that presentations should be of immediate value for the working lives of practising engineers and strategists; they should provide a good emphasis on actual applications of the technology (whether in industry, transport, energy or household); they should still include as much as possible of new designs, new ideas and future trends; and, of course, they should be as well presented and as authoritative as possible. Looking at the Oral Sessions in these lights, there are in Session 1 representatives of several of the world leaders addressing such topical subjects as drives as components, integrated motor drives, energy savings dependence of drive performance on accurate parameter values, and new multipurpose integrated SR drives. Sessions 2, 4 and 7 span the full range of control issues: there is particular emphasis on applications in automation, sophisticated trajectory control and communication systems; there are discussions of various new sensors, control and driving circuits for different machine types, and an authorative look into the future of DSP developments and applications; and there is a group of papers describing the continuing progress across a range of modern methods of challenging in terms of high performance, very low cost and harsh environment control. Session 3 concentrates on the young, but potentially massive markets for electrically powered auxiliaries in vehicles with particular emphasis on power steering (by an invited speaker), starter/generators, braking/ traction control systems, and flight control surfaces. Finally, Sessions 5 and 6 focus on important aspects in the development, design and application of electrical machines: steppers, permanent - magnet motors and generators, reluctance motors, bearings, spindle and vehicle propulsion drives; and the subject of design is strongly represented including authorative papers on soft magnetic composites and on multidisciplinary design. In the Dialogue Sessions quality, topicality and comprehensive variety are similarly apparent. There is a much larger number of presentations than before for Intelligent Motion, and the natures of submissions imply levels of subject development similar to those characterising the oral papers. Finally, which will be welcome to many attendees, the authors in both Dialogue and Oral Sessions come essentially equally from industry and from universities. I hope the overall programme will appear valuable to you as it does to me, and I look forward to the pleasure of welcoming you in Nuremberg in June. Yours sincerely, Prof. Peter Lawrenson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back to Top ---------------------------------------------------------------------------