Young Researchers Awards
Watch the replay of the Young Researchers Awards Ceremony that was held on
November 9th 2021, in Liège, Belgium:
1st Prize: Study of the electrical properties of HVAC EPDM and HVAC silicone rubber under DC constraint, by Maya MOURAD
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Maya Mourad, born in southern Lebanon, graduated in 2020 with an engineering degree from an engineering school in Grenoble France and a masters degree in materials science from Aalto university in Espoo, Finland. She is currently working on insulation materials for HVDC cable accessories at SuperGrid Institute in France. Her work focuses on dielectric properties and space charges measurements. She completed a master’s degree titled “Advanced materials for Innovation and Sustainability” – from September 2018 to September 2020, a joint European masters between Aalto University in Finland and Grenoble INP in France as part of the European Institute of Technology’s raw material cohort. Her thesis expands on the characterization of insulation materials for HVDC cable accessories during an internship at SuperGrid Institute. She was hired at SuperGrid Institute in October 2020 to continue the research on insulation materials for HVDC cable accessories focusing primarily on the study of space charges. In an effort to understand the limitations of standard materials used in high voltage applications when subjected to DC constraint and the possibility for improvement of these materials, her group chose one EPDM and one silicone rubber – standard for HVAC applications – for an in-depth investigation into their electrical properties. The focus was on the DC conductivity behaviour and the impact of space charges on the DC conductivity. The results presented in the paper are the outcome of measurement protocols set and improved through result analysis, and previous studies both carried out at SuperGrid Institute and found in literature. Interpreting and analyzing the result included reading and understanding scientific papers on DC conductivity and space charges, and discussing results with colleagues from SuperGrid Institute – Servane HALLER, Sophie IGLESIAS (co-authors) and Ludovic BOYER to name a few. |
2nd Prize: Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Maximum Power Transfer Capability of HVDC Cables, by Sathyamoorthy DHAYALAN
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Sathyamoorthy Dhayalan was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He did M.E in High Voltage Engineering From Anna University, Chennai. Presently he is pursuing a PhD degree in electrical engineering (specialization in High Voltage Insulation) at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, India. His research interests include analysis and modelling of insulation under electro-thermal stress, investigation of breakdown phenomenon in HVDC cables and characterization of insulation material for high voltage.
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3rd Prize: Qualification Tests for Partial Discharge Instruments to be used for Insulation Condition Monitoring of HVDC Cable Systems, by Eduardo ARCONES DEL ALAMO
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Eduardo Arcones del Álamo was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1995. He received his degree in automatic and industrial electronical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2017) and his M.Sc degree in electromechanical engineering from the same University (2019). Nowadays he is doing his PhD degree in industrial production engineering oriented to the development of HV and MV scale model systems to reproduce the behavior of transient pulses in real installations. His BSc., MSc. and PhD. degrees has been developed in the High-Voltage Test Laboratory LAT-UPM. Since 2020, he has been a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, UPM. Eduardo Arcones del Álamo was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1995. He received his degree in automatic and industrial electronical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2017) and his M.Sc degree in electromechanical engineering from the same University (2019). Nowadays he is doing his PhD degree in industrial production engineering oriented to the development of HV and MV scale model systems to reproduce the behavior of transient pulses in real installations. His BSc., MSc. and PhD. degrees has been developed in the High-Voltage Test Laboratory LAT-UPM. Since 2020, he has been a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, UPM.
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