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Present EMC research activities Project proposal. Farhad RACHIDI Abraham RUBINSTEIN Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Email: abraham.rubinstein@epfl.ch. Present EMC Research activity. Lightning Electromagnetic Effects Field-to-Transmission Line Interaction
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Present EMC research activities Project proposal Farhad RACHIDI Abraham RUBINSTEIN Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Email: abraham.rubinstein@epfl.ch
Present EMC Research activity • Lightning Electromagnetic Effects • Field-to-Transmission Line Interaction • EMC Aspects of Power Line Communication Systems • Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields • ELF (162/3 and 50 Hz) and HF(mobile communication) • EMC in vehicles (GEMCAR European Project)
International Collaboration • University of Bologna, Rome (Italy) • University of Florida (USA) • University of Toronto (Canada) Funding • Swiss National Science Foundation • Electrical Utilities • Swisscom • EDF 1. Lightning electromagnetic effects
Major Achievements • Development of a new model specifying the spatial-temporal distribution of lightning return stroke current. • Characterization of lightning return stroke electric and magnetic fields at close range. • Experimental validation of models 1. Lightning electromagnetic effects (cont’) Artificially-initiated lightning
Lightning to Tall Towers Goal • Re-evaluation of lightning current statistics and extraction of the primary data (undisturbed by the struck object) International Collaboration • University of Toronto • University of Bologna Funding • Swiss National Science Foundation • Swiss Defence Procurement Agency
International Collaboration • University of Bologna, Italy • EDF, France Funding • Swiss National Science Foundation • EDF 2. Field-to-Transmission Line Interaction
Major achievements • Development of a field-to-transmission line coupling model • Development of an efficient hybrid HF model taking into account line radiation. • Experimental validation using triggered lightning and EMP simulators SEMIRAMIS 2. Field-to-Transmission Line Interaction (cont’)
2. Field-to-Transmission Line Interaction (cont’) Major achievements (Cont’) www.ing.unibo.it/die/liov
Study the impact of ELF and HF fields on the moss Physcomitrella Patens and on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Biological Effects of electromagnetic fields Goal Collaboration • University of Lausanne (Plant Cell Genetics Lab.) • Politecnico di Torino, Italy Funding • Forschungskooperation Nachhaltiger Mobilfunk
Power Line Communications Emmanuel Marthe Goal • Evaluation of EMC impact of PLC sytems Collaboration • Telecom Laboratory, EPFL • Ascom Technologies Funding • PSEL • CREE-RDP
GEMCAR European Project Emmanuel Petrache, Abraham Rubinstein Goal • Modeling of EM field coupling to automotive cable harness and experimental validation Collaboration • 9 Partners from France, UK, Belgium, Sweden including Volvo, ONERA and EADS Funding • European Union
EMC in Complex Systems 25’000 segments
GEMCAR European Project Emmanuel Petrache, Abraham Rubinstein Field Penetration inside the Vehicle