Arbeids- og kompetanseområde

 

Power Electronics and Electric Drives Lab 

         Available equipments and prototypes       

                Prototype of modular multilevel converter 

                Typhoon HIL 604

                Prototypes of AC/DC, DC/AC, DC/DC converters

                Basic line HIL machines from Speedgoat

                PM motors and induction motors

                DSP boards and FPGA boards

Profile summary

Shujun Zhang has many years experiences in the fields of Power Electronics, Electric Drives and Power Systems in both academic and industrial environments. The most exciting aspects in these fields for him are different technologies for creating state-of-the-art power conversion systems for the society. He has research interests in Power Electronics, Electric Machines and Actuators, Sensor, Digital Real Time Control, Renewable Energy, Battery, and Power systems. He has close contacts with industry both local and international companies for both projects and supporting them as a technical advisor. He is open to getting more projects from both academics and industries.

If you are interested in studying or working in his lab in bachelor, master or PhD program, or if you would like to develop a good idea to products, or if you have technical challenges during development of your products, please feel free to contact him:

    e-mail: shujun.zhang@hvl.no

    tel: +47- 5558 7199

Professional experience

From June 2017 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

January 2012 - May 2017 Senior R&D engineer, Power Electronics Centre, Siemens Trondheim, Norway

September 1999- December 2007 Researcher & Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, China

Education

January 2008 - January 2012, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,  Norway

2010 six months PhD exchange, WEMPEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

September 2003 - March 2006, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, China

2007 six months visitor, Bocholt campus, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Germany

 

Competence in the fields of:

- AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC converter

- Electric machines and actuators, electric drives

- Maritime diesel electric propulsion system, energy storage system, and hybrid propulsion system

- Microgrid for all-electric ship

- Short circuit analysis for DC or AC power grid

- THD analysis

- Control system, code generation, embedded programming

- Hardware-In-the-Loop testing and prototyping

 

Project:

1. Design of onshore high power fast battery charging system for electric Ferry, Master Project 2017-2018,  With Siemens Bergen

2. Grid Connected Three-phase Modular Multilevel Converter for Maritime Application, Master Project 2018-2019

3. Silicon Carbide (SiC) Based DC Switch for Maritime Application, Master Project 2018-2019

4. Engineering and Performance Comparison Study of DC Distribution System and AC Distribution System for Diesel-Electric Propulsion System, Master Project 2018-2019, With Norwegian Electric Systems AS

5. Sensorless Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine for Subsea Application, Master Project 2019-2020, with Visinnovasjon

6. Stability Study of Hybrid DC Microgrid for Maritime Deisel Electrical Propulsion Applications, PhD project 2019-2023

Underviser i
  • ELE119 Power Electronics (bachelor)
  • MET503 Power Electronics (master)
  • MET205 Electric Drives (master)
  • ELE307 Electric Drives(bachelor)
  • ELE308 fordypning i kraftelektronikk(bachelor)
  • ING303 Systemtenking og innovasjon for ingeniørar

Forskar på
  • Power Electronics
  • Electric Drives
  • All-Electric Ship
  • Microgrid
  • Smartgrid
  • Energy storage
  • Renewable energy
Forskargrupper

Publikasjonar

  • Towards the Application of Coloured Petri Nets for Design and Validation of Power Electronics Converter Systems

    Steinsland, Vegard, Kristensen, Lars Michael, Zhang, Shujun (2022)
  • Design and Simulation of a Rectifier for Bidirectional Electric Vehicle Chargers

    Bajwa, Omes Jawaid, Zhang, Shujun (2021)
  • Integration Design of Sub-Module for Medium Voltage Modular Multilevel Converter

    Steinsland, Vegard, Haustveit, Eirik, Håland, Endre Berntsen, Zhang, Shujun (2021)
  • Comparison of Supercapacitor and Battery Transient Response for DC-bus

    Steinsland, Vegard, Zhang, Shujun, Reigstad, Marius, Storebø, Fredrik (2021)
  • Comparison of diode rectifier and active-front-end for synchronous generators supplying DC loads for maritime applications

    (2021)
  • Design of Modular Multilevel Converters for the Shipnet in medium Voltage DC All-Electric Ships

    Steinsland, Vegard, Kristensen, Lars Michael, Arghandeh, Reza, Zhang, Shujun (2020)
  • A New Approach to Include Complex Grounding System in Lightning Transient Studies and EMI Evaluations

    Steinsland, Vegard, Sivertsen, Lasse Hugo, Cimpan, Emil, Zhang, Shujun (2019)
  • System design and implementation of induction generators self-excited by capacitors for maritime diesel electric propulsion systems

    Zhang, Shujun, Haugland, Torbjørn (2019)
  • A new Method to include complex grounding system in lightning transient studies and EMI evaluations

    Steinsland, Vegard, Sivertsen, Lasse Hugo, Cimpan, Emil, Zhang, Shujun (2018)
  • Study of high power fast charging station for battery ferry and hybrid ferry

    Zhang, Shujun, Sivertsen, Lasse Hugo, Øvsthus, Knut, Andreas, Sagedal (2018)
  • Percussive Drilling Application of Translational Motion Permenent Magnet Machine

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar (2012)
  • Down-the-Hole Hammer Drilling System Driven by a Tubular Reciprocating Translational Motion Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar, Nilssen, Robert, Lorenz, Robert D. (2012)
  • Percussive Drilling Application of a Tubular Reciprocating Translational Motion Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar, Nilssen, Robert, Lorenz, Robert D. (2012)
  • Variable Voltage Variable Frequency Control of Tubular Linear Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine for Drilling Applications

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar, Nilssen, Robert (2010)
  • Tubular Linear Oscillatory Machine for Drilling Applications

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar, Pedersen, Eilif, Nilssen, Robert (2010)
  • Analysis of Tubular Linear Permanent Magnet Motor for Drilling Application

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar, Nilssen, Robert (2009)
  • Oscillatory Motion Application of Tubular Linear Permanent Magnet machine

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar, Nilssen, Robert (2009)
  • Modeling and Control for Tubular Linear Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines with Gas Springs in Drilling Applications

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar (2008)
  • Modeling and Control for Tubular Linear Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines with Gas Springs in Drilling Applications

    Zhang, Shujun, Norum, Lars Einar (2008)