RQEI Training 2024

Registration, meals, transport and accommodation are covered for all RQEI members
(researchers, students, collaborators)

DATES: Tuesday May 7 to Thursday May 9, 2024

FORMAT: face-to-face

LANGUAGE: English/French

PLACES: Concordia University, SGW Campus, EV Building, Room EV001.162 (day 1 and 2)

and

OPAL-RT Technologies Headquarters, 1751 Richardson Street, Suite #1060, Montreal, Quebec (day 3)

ORGANIZER: Professor Pragasen Pillay and Dr. Akrem Aljehaimi

Power Electronics & Energy Research (PEER) Group, Concordia University

ORGANIZER CONTACT: Phone: 514-848-2424 Ext. 7070; Email: Akrem.aljehaimi@concordia.ca

MAXIMUM PARTICIPANTS: 10

BY RESERVATION: FORMULAR BELOW

REGISTRATION EXCLUSIVE FOR RQEI MEMBERS until April 16 at 12h.

RQEI’s Workshop on Testing Of Electric Machines for Electric Vehicles

Registration, lunch, transport and accommodation are free for all RQEI members (researchers, students, collaborators).

 

Presented by: The POWER ELECTRONICS AND ENERGY R ESEARCH Group of Concordia University

RQEI Workshop on Testing Electrical Machines for Electric Vehicles

Registration, meals, transportation and accommodation are offered free of charge for all RQEI members (chercheur.se, student, collaborator)

Presented by: Concordia University’s Energy and Power Electronics Research Group

The aim of this workshop is to provide hands-on experience to research students in the field of electric machine drives on operating dynamometer test-benches for testing of electric vehicles (EVs).

The workshop will cover:

a) introduction to dynamometer testing,

b) testing of induction motors and/or permanent magnet synchronous motors,

(c) motor shaft alignment,

d) sensors, instrumentation and data acquisition,

e) demonstrations of Opal-RT technologies simulations.

The PEER group laboratory is equipped with dynamometer test-benches, and associated equipment required for performing various tests on machines. One among them is a full-fledged, high power, state-of-the-art dynamometer test facility capable of testing machines up to 200 hp which is used for commercial testing of machines for Hydro Quebec and other industries. This equipment was transferred from the Hydro Quebec testing lab in Shawinigan to Concordia in 2019.

Date: 7-9 May 2024

Pre-requisites: Basics of electrical circuits, electrical machines and control systems

Instructors: At Concordia, a retired engineer from Hydro-Québec (Pierre Angers), a research associate, a postdoctoral fellow, and graduate students in the PEER group who have experience in using these setups will be involved in presenting the workshop supervised by Professor Pillay.
At Opal-RT, Dr. Amit Kumar (power laboratory), Dr. Danielle Nasrallah (dynamic laws) and Mr. Bélanger (OPAL-RT technologies).

Topics: The workshop is planned to have 6 sessions (one common in the morning and 2 parallel in the afternoon), over 3 days. Two groups consisting of five students each will be admitted to the workshop. The details of each session are given in the table below.

Language of instruction : English/French

Venue : presential

About Opal-RT:

Our mission
To help our customers reduce the cost and time of designing, prototyping and testing complex mechanical and electrical systems, by providing high-performance simulation systems that are open and easy to use, using market technologies optimized for parallel computing, with the ultimate aim of making real-time simulation efficient, accurate and accessible to all.

 

Our vision
OPAL-RT was founded with the aim of “democratizing real-time simulation”. The vision is that a real-time simulator will be on the desk of every engineer and researcher, and that imagination will be the only real limit to the design of complex systems.

The objective of this workshop is to provide hands-on experience for research students in the field of electric machine drive on dynamometer test benches to test electric vehicles (EVs). The workshop will cover the following:

(a) Introduction to dynamometer testing,

(b) the testing of induction motors and/or permanent magnet synchronous motors,

(c) the alignment of the motor shaft,

(d) sensors, instrumentation and data acquisition,

e) demonstrations of Opal-RT’s simulation technologies.

The PEER Group laboratory is equipped with dynamometer test benches and related equipment necessary to perform various tests on machines. One of them is a high-powered, state-of-the-art complete dynamometer test rig capable of testing machines up to 200 HP, which is used for commercial machine testing for Hydro Quebec and other industries. This equipment was transferred from Hydro-Québec’s testing laboratory in Shawinigan to Concordia in 2019.

Date: May 7-9, 2024

Prerequisites: Basics of electrical circuits, electrical machines, and control systems.

Instructors: At Concordia, a retired Hydro-Québec engineer (Pierre Angers), a research associate, a postdoctoral fellow and graduate students from the PEER group who have experience in the use of these facilities will be involved in the presentation of the workshop supervised by Professor Pillay.
At Opal-RT, Dr. Amit Kumar (power laboratory), Dr. Danielle Nasrallah (dynamical laws) and Mr. Bélanger (OPAL-RT’s flagship technologies).

Themes: The workshop includes 6 sessions (one common in the morning and 2 parallel in the afternoon), over 3 days. Two groups of five students each will be admitted to the workshop. Details of each session are given in the table below.

Language of instruction: English/French

Modalities: face-to-face

About Opal-RT:

Our Mission
To help its customers reduce the costs and time of designing, prototyping and testing complex mechanical and electrical systems, by providing high-performance simulation systems that are open and easy to use, using market technologies, optimized for parallel computing, with the ultimate goal of making real-time simulation efficient, accurate and accessible to all.

Our Vision
OPAL-RT was founded with the aim of “democratizing real-time simulation.” The vision is that a real-time simulator will be on every engineer and researcher’s desk, and imagination will be the only real limit to designing complex systems.

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Detailed schedule

Language of instruction: English/French

Day	Time	Session for Group 1	Session for Group 2	Place
1	10:00 – 12:00	Introduction to dynamometer test-benches (video and live questions and answers)	Machine shaft alignment (video and live questions and answers)	Concordia
	12:00 – 13:00	Lunch break		Concordia
	13:00 – 17:00	Induction motor testing using a 200 hp dynamometer test-bench (in French)	– Machine shaft alignment practice – PMSM testing using the 17hp dyno (in English)	Concordia
2	10:00 – 12:00	Machine shaft alignment (video and live questions and answers)	Introduction to dynamometer test-benches (video and live questions and answers)	Concordia
	12:00 – 13:00	Lunch break		Concordia
	13:00 – 17:00	– Machine shaft alignment practice – PMSM testing using the 17hp dyno (in English)	Induction motor testing using a 200 hp dynamometer test-bench (in French)	Concordia
3	09:00 – 11:00	-Demonstrations in the power lab -Exploring dynamic laws – Introduction to OPAL-RT flagship technologies		Opal-RT