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Christian Klumpner

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering

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Biography

I received my BSc degree in electromechanical engineering from the University of Resita, Romania in 1995, and my MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from 'Politehnica' University of Timisoara, Romania in 1996 and 2001 respectively.

From 1996 to 1999, I was with Bee Speed, Timisoara, Romania (full time and part time), involved in the design, execution, commissioning and maintenance of electrical equipment based on power converters, where I acquired valuable practical industrial experience.

Between 1998 and 2000 I was for a total of 14 months a Guest Researcher at the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, where I was working with matrix converters, in conjunction with my PhD thesis, under the auspices of the Danfoss Professor Programme.

From 2001 to 2003 I was a Research Assistant Professor at the same Institute, continuing the research work in direct power conversion under the auspices of the Innovation Post-Doc programme supported by the Danish Research Agency and Danfoss Drives A/S.

As of October 2003, I am a lecturer at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK, teaching Power Electronics Design (H63PED/H5DPE2) and partly, Power Quality. I am also supervising undergraduate student projects related to general electrical engineering with focus on power electronics, electrical drives, power quality, renewable energy. I am also supervising postgraduate (MSc and PhD) and research projects related to desing, control and evaluation of novel/advanced power electronic converter topologies.

Expertise Summary

Power electronics and AC drives (in general), direct power conversion (matrix converters), integrated motor-converter drives, grid-friendly power converters for connecting renewable resources (fuel cells, photovoltaic) or novel energy storage devices (supercapatteries) to the AC grid, PWM active front end rectifiers, hybrid power electronic converters.

Published 70 papers (37 as first author) in international conferences and 17 papers in international journals with peer review (13 as first author).

Research Summary

"A New Supercapattery based Energy Storage System with an Advanced Power Electronic Interface for Intelligent Power Grids" (3-year E.ON sponsored project by the 2007- Research Initiative in Energy… read more

Selected Publications

Current Research

  • "A New Supercapattery based Energy Storage System with an Advanced Power Electronic Interface for Intelligent Power Grids" (3-year E.ON sponsored project by the 2007- Research Initiative in Energy Storage). This is a joint project between Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (PI: Prof. George Z. Chen) and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (PI: myself, Project Manager: Prof. Greg Asher).
  • High Frequency Power Supply for Metal Spray Apps - KTP project with Metallisation Ltd, Dudley, West Midlands, UK. The project formally started Feb 2011.

Past Research

Summary: Power electronics and AC drives (in general), Direct power conversion (Single and Two-stage Matrix Converters), Integrated Motor-Converter Drives, Grid-friendly power converters for connecting renewable resources (fuel cells, photovoltaics), investigate the benefits of using novel semiconductor devices (reverse blocking IGBTs) in various power electronic systems , PWM active front end rectifiers (Voltage and Current Source), Hybrid power converters (Hybrid Matrix Converters; Hybrid Cycloconverters, Hybrid Current Source Rectifiers).

Past Research Projects:

  • "Experimental Investigation of New Power Electronic Converters and Control Strategies for Operation Under Non-Ideal Power Grid Conditions" (£15,000) granted by the Research and Innovation Services, University of Nottingham under the New Lecturer Fund Scheme

Future Research

, Optimal design of power electronic converters, Inteligent power systems

Faculty of Engineering

The University of Nottingham
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