News From The FSU Center For Advanced Power Systems
July 26, 2001
Contact:
Jim Ferner / Tom Baldwin
(850) 644-9630 / 644-5677
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Engineers and researchers from industry, academia, and government will gather in Tallahassee on July 30-31 for workshops on advanced power systems that have utility, industrial, defense, and transportation applications. The workshops are being hosted by the FSU Center for Advanced Power Systems and will be held at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Innovation Park.
CAPS was established in 2000 with a three-year, $11 million grant from the U.S. Navy to support the all-electric ship program. The first workshop will be a review of CAPS' efforts during the first year and will feature the implementation plans for a new power system testbed to be constructed in Innovation Park. The testbed will facilitate the development and demonstration of novel power components and control systems.
The second workshop, Superconductivity Applications in the Electric Power Industry, is being co-sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute. It will examine the present status and future prospects of superconductivity in the electric power sector and will include discussions on the issues and benefits associated with incorporating superconducting equipment into the utility grid and power systems in general. This workshop is the initial meeting for EPRI's Working Group on Power Delivery Applications of Superconductivity, which will continue to drive new development efforts.
CAPS is an academic-industrial-government consortium that focuses on recent advances in power system technologies, power electronics, materials, advanced controls, and superconductivity applied to power system technologies. It is forging new alliances between a wide range of research organizations, end users, and equipment and system manufacturers. CAPS builds on the expertise of NHMFL in materials, superconductivity, and high-field electromagnets and the faculty and students at FSU and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.
