The China Scholarship Council (CSC), KU Leuven and imec have agreed to fund up to 50 PhD scholarship positions in Science and Technology to outstanding Chinese PhD applicants at KU Leuven/Imec. Read more about this scholarship programme on this CSC website (to be updated shortly). Candidates should be citizens of the People’s Republic of China at the time of application. Overseas Chinese students may be eligible for application subject to CSC policy at the time.For further eligibility requirements and other information, please take a look at the CSC website(https://www.csc.edu.cn).Chinese students pursuing a PhD in Science and Technology are strongly recommended to apply for this scholarship programme. The KU Leuven research topics are listed in this website; there are also research topics in collaboration with imec. Chinese students pursuing a PhD in another field can still apply for an individual CSC fellowship.
CSC provides a living stipend as well as the return international airfare between China and Belgium to each scholarship holder.
Imec or KU Leuven will waive the tuition fee, provide medical insurance and a housing allowance of max. 400€/month or an equivalent reduction in housing costs in a university residence for the period of funding provided by CSC. The KU Leuven registration fee cannot be waived.
The scholarship funding for each scholarship holder will be up to 48 months.
Chinese students are strongly recommended to apply for this scholarship programme. The topics are listed below. You can only apply to one topic (not several), unless you apply to several topics with the same supervisor.The application deadline is 31 december 2021.Preselection by the supervisors of the research topic will take place from 1 January to 15 February 2022. The selected candidates will need to apply to CSC before 31 March 2022.
Prof. Dirk Van Hertem招收一名
关于该项目：
2022-38: ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TEMPORARY OVERVOLTAGE PROBLEMS DUE TO RESONANCES IN UNDERGROUNDED HIGH-VOLTAGE SYSTEMS
Focus: Power systems, Electrical engineering, Energy transition
Required background: (ideally): MSc in electrical engineering, power system engineering or computer science
Supervisors: Dirk Van Hertem and Willem Leterme
Summary:
An upscale in the use of renewable power generation inevitably comes along with the need for electrical transmission infrastructure that connects the renewable power generation to the end-users. In Belgium, this need is even more pronounced, driven by the nuclear phase-out by 2025, the planned extension from 2.3 GW in 2020 to 4.7 GW offshore wind by 2030, an addition of 600 MW onshore wind power in the coastal region and a planned increased power exchange (e.g. from 1 to 2.4 GW) between Belgium and UK.Given public opposition, underground cables are being considered more and more by system operators to cross densely populated areas or for city infeeds. However, an increased share of underground cables results in a higher probability of resonances which may cause damage to components. This is particularly pronounced in systems with significant presence of power electronic converters, e.g. from HVDC and wind turbines. Therefore, with an increased share of cables in the system, the system operator will need to actively track the probability of failure of equipment due to these resonances.The present means for tracking these resonances are based on heuristics and based on specific system configurations. In this research, we will use fundamental power system theory in combination with techniques borrowed from the field of machine learning to propose fundamentally new methods for system operators to deal with these resonances. The work will consist of developing appropriate equivalent models over a broad frequency range depending on a wide range of parameters, amongst others on the operational state and grid topology. 请直接与Prof. Drik联系，申请入口请点击“阅读原文”~
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