Phase I I/UCRC University of Connecticut Site: Center for Novel High Voltage/Temperature Materials and Structures (HVT)

不断增长的电力需求需要新的高压和高温解决方案来提高电力基础设施的容量和潮流控制能力。为了满足这些需求，这笔赠款将在康涅狄格大学的NSF IUCRC高压/温度中心内创建一个网站，该中心目前由丹佛大学，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校和密歇根理工大学领导。康州大学将补充该中心？我们将通过引进高压工程和电力系统资产管理方面的独特专业知识来解决这些紧迫的问题。为此，康州大学将创造和研究下一代高压材料，以提高电力基础设施的效率和可靠性。康州大学的网站汇集了一个跨学科的大学研究人员与公司和其他研究机构合作，创造新的，先进的高压材料和结构。该中心的目标包括创造新的，更有效的电力材料，创造材料模拟能力，并为这些材料开发监测和修复方法。这些进步应用于电网和其他行业，如航空航天工业。康州大学的网站将加强这些目标，重点是高电压材料，以及如何最好地将它们整合到未来的电网。公司的愿景是利用最先进的航空航天技术为下一代电网设计新型材料和结构。为此，Uconn将采用诸如脉冲电声和激光诱导脉冲压力方法以及从头算量子计算等技术，以更好地了解高压材料如何老化以及如何改善其生命周期和性能。反过来，纳米结构介电材料将被设计用于高压元件和系统，具有改变游戏规则的特性，用于高效的能量转换，传输和分配，电力流控制，恶劣环境电气化和可再生能源集成，具有巨大的潜在经济影响。我们将开展高压系统资产管理的合作研究，以保护，健康监测，诊断和预测关键资产。该网站还将开发完整的生命周期，以可靠性为中心的预测性资产管理策略，统计，数据管理技术，经济和IT集成。该网站所取得的进步将提高未来电网的可靠性和效率，以及可再生能源的整合，为美国和世界带来巨大的潜在利益。

The ever increasing demand for electric power calls for new high voltage and temperature solutions to enhance the capacity and power flow control capabilities of the electrical power infrastructure. To address these needs, this grant will create a site at the University of Connecticut within the NSF IUCRC Center on High Voltage/Temperature currently led by the University of Denver, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Michigan Technological University. UConn will complement the Center?s excellence by bring in unique expertise in high voltage engineering and power system asset management to address these pressing concerns. To that end, UConn will create and study next generation high voltage materials to improve the efficiency and reliability of power infrastructure. The UConn site has brought together an interdisciplinary group of university researchers working jointly with companies and other research organizations to create new, advanced high voltage materials and structures. The goals of the Center include the creation of new, more efficient power materials, the creation of materials simulation capabilities and the development of monitor and repair methods for those materials. These advances are applied to the electrical grid and other industries, such as the aerospace industry. The UConn site will enhance these objectives by focusing on high voltage materials and how best to integrate them into future power grids.This UConn site will advance the Center?s vision of using the most advanced aerospace technologies to design novel materials and structures for the next generation electrical grid. To that end, Uconn will employ techniques such as pulsed electroacoustic and laser induced pulse pressure methods with ab initio quantum computation to better understand how high voltage materials age and how to improve their lifecycle and performance. In turn, nanostructured dielectric materials will be engineered for high voltage components and systems with game-changing characteristics for efficient energy conversion, transmission and distribution, power flow control, harsh environmental electrification and renewable integration with enormous potential economic impacts. We will conduct cooperative research on high voltage system asset management for the protection, health monitoring, diagnosis and prognosis of critical assets. The site will also develop full life-cycle, reliability centric predictive asset management strategies, statistics, data management techniques, economics and IT integration. The advancements made possible by this site will improve the reliability and efficiency of future power grids and the integration of renewable energy sources with significant potential benefits for the United States and the world.