Time: Refreshments at 18:15, lecture starts at 18:45 – Please note this new time is a trial for this season
Venue: BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square, BA1 2HN, Bath Building.
Presenter: Nick Smith, Executive for Systems Technology, GE Vernova Power Conversion.
Background:
A power system that you’ve never seen before. Nick will be providing insight into tomorrow’s technology, promising compelling advantages for future warships, operators and shipbuilders alike. Nick will discuss how this rapidly emerging technology could eradicate the need for main switchboards and drives in future naval electrical power systems. By simplifying the electrical network, these “Halo” machines and mesh networks could dramatically reduce network footprint, size and weight, contributing to network availability and resilience. These high-power density machines, combined with a potential step change in signatures, releases redundancy and resilience that has been trapped inside electrical machines for more than a century. Additionally, solid state mesh networks, without using separate switchboards facilitates the dynamic re-routing of electrical power offering, a potentially self-healing and autonomy ready network.
