The 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Application (ICRERA) 2016 took place in Birmingham, United Kingdom, where DUT’s Professor Innocent Davidson and his postgraduate student Oluwafemi Oni won the Best Paper Award.
Professor Davidson is a professor within DUT’s Department of Electrical Power Engineering. Titled: Harmonic Distortion of LCC-HVDC and VSC-HVDC Link in Eskom’s Cahora Bassa HVDC Scheme, the award winning paper competed against 372 submissions from 46 countries including Turkey, Japan, India, Algeria, United Kingdom, USA, Italy, China, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Denmark, France and Norway.
ICRERA is one of the high quality scientific conferences in the field of renewable energy. It is technically and financially supported by IEEE communities of PELS, IES and IAS. ICRERA offers the opportunities and facilities to attendees not only share their knowledge and recent achievements but also discuss new ideas with colleagues from many countries.
In addition to their winning paper, Prof Davidson and Oni also presented other papers in conjunction with other authors. These are:
[1] E. Hamatwi1, I E Davidson and M N Gitau, “Control of Multi-Level Voltage Source Converters Integrating a Wind Turbine System into the Grid”. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 20-22 November 2016. [2] OE Oni, N Parus and IE Davidson, “Harmonic Distortion of LCC-HVDC and VSC-HVDC Link in Eskom’s Cahora Bassa HVDC Scheme”. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 20-22 November 2016. [3] OE Oni, N Parus and IE Davidson, “Voltage Stability Analysis of Eskom Eastern Grid High Voltage Transmission Grid”. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 20-22 November 2016. [4] S Sewchurran and IE Davidson, “Optimisation and Financial Viability of Landfill Gas to Electricity Projects in South Africa”. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 20-22 November 2016. [5] S Sewchurran and IE Davidson, “Guiding Principles for Grid Code Compliance of Large Utility Scale Renewable Power Plant Integration onto South Africa’s Transmission/Distribution Networks”. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 20-22 November 2016.These papers will be published in IEEE XPLORE.
“The conference provided a fantastic opportunity to establish new research collaborations, and to meet and engage with the new engineers in the industry – and help define it”, said Prof Davidson.
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Pictured from right: DUT Professor Inno Davidson of the Department of Electrical Power Engineering and his postgraduate students Sanjeeth Sewchurran and Oluwafemi Oni. Also pictured on the left is Professor David Dorrell from UKZN who also attended the conference.
