2011 – Cancun, Mexico

  • October 16-19, 2011 – Cancun, Mexico (Hyatt Regency)

Program:

Report on CEIDP 2011:

Proceedings:

Whitehead Lecturer:

  • 2011 Whitehead Memorial Lecturer: Prof. Hitoshi Okubo, Nagoya University, Japan.

Title— Enhancement of electrical insulation performance in power equipment based on dielectric material techniques

Abstract— Research and development results of enhancement techniques of electrical insulation performance for higher electric field application in power transmission/substation equipment such as transformers, switchgears and cables are described, especially based on the view point of dielectric materials. Firstly, the electric field analysis and field measurement techniques are introduced to discuss higher electric field equipment. Secondly, material techniques including gas, liquid, solid, vacuum and their composite systems, are discussed to clarify power equipment, with higher performance, lower losses, lower environmental impact and higher reliability. In the process of the development, a highly sophisticated new approach to clarify the physical mechanisms of the partial discharges was developed and applied. By the introduction and applications of the above mentioned new electrical insulation techniques based on dielectric materials, concepts of future power equipment with a higher electric field are proposed.

Prof. Hitoshi Okubo short Bio: Hitoshi Okubo (M’88) graduated from Nagoya University, Japan with a B.A. degree and Master’s degree in 1971 and 1973, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1984 in electrical engineering from Nagoya University, Japan. He joined Heavy Apparatus Engineering Laboratory of Toshiba Corporation, Japan in 1973 and was a manager of High Voltage Laboratory of Toshiba. Since 1991, he was a Professor and is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Nagoya University. His research subjects are specializing in the field of electric field calculation and measurement, electrical insulation techniques, the diagnostic techniques for electrical insulation performance in power equipment, related phenomena including partial discharges in gas/liquid/vacuum/solid materials, and functionally graded materials (FGM) and nano-dielectrics, as well as the power applications of high temperature superconductivity (HTS). He is a member of IEEE, IEE of Japan, VDE, CIGRE, ETRA and IEEDJ. Since 2005 Professor Okubo has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation.

  • 2011 CEIDP Whitehead Lecturer Article on IEEE Xplore: Click Here

Executive Committee:

  • Rajeswari Sundararajan, Conference Chair, Purdue University, USA
  • Mahmoud Abou-Dakka, Vice Chair / Treasurer, Purdue University, USA
  • Michel Fréchette, Technical Program Committee Chair, Institute of Research of Hydro-Quebec, CANADA
  • Nicola Bowler, Conference Secretary, Iowa State University, USA
  • Eric David, Publication and Publicity Committee Chair, Ecole de Technologies Supérieure, CANADA
  • Enis Tuncer, Nominating Committee Chair, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  • V. Rodolfo Garcia-Colon, Local Arrangements Chair, Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, MEXICO
  • Resi Lloyd, DEIS Meetings Committee Chair, IRIS Power Engineering, CANADA