Lidija Petkovska, PhD

Lidija Petkovska has received BSc EE Degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, and MSc EE and Doctoral Degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje.

Her field of interest encompasses wide problems of electrical machines, which are principally in three areas: novel electrical machines, electric drives and control, and in particular numerical FEM field computations of electrical machines, design, optimization, simulation and testing.

Until 2008 Lidija Petkovska was full professor with Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. From 2009-2013 she was full professor with International Balkan University in Skopje, serving from 2011 as Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Design. During her educational career, she was delivering lectures on numerous courses of all three cycles of study, guiding more than 150 diploma projects, 8 master and 4 doctoral theses. Another important part of her activities is participation in total 28 international and/or domestic Science&Research, Research&Development, Industry oriented and Educational projects, acting in 11 as principal researcher and team leader.

Professor Lidija Petkovska has an international reputation on all of her research work. She has published as author and co-author 295 papers in conference proceedings and 76 peer reviewed papers in scientific journals, among which 35 are with impact factor. Lidija Petkovska in 1995 published a book “Micromachines”, dealing with small and special electrical machines, still the only one in the country.

As a recognition to her scientific work she was delivering guest lectures for PhD students at the University of Lodz, Poland and for MSc students at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. Also, at ISEF’2013 Conference presented an invited paper, while at ISEF’2019 she was one of the panellist at the session entitled “Optimal design, metamaterials, 3D printing” giving a speech on “Shape synthesis and innovative motors”

Lidija Petkovska is a member of ISCs of prestigious international conferences, acting as a peer reviewer and also chairing more than 70 sessions. She was organiser and Chair of the world-wide known ISEF’2013 conference, and from 2006 is founder and chair of SAEM conference, now in the 8th edition – SAEM’2022, which will be held in North Macedonia.

Lidija Petkovska is Senior Member of IEEE and member in two societies: Power and Efficiency Society – PES and Magnetic Society. She is also member of Polish Society of Applied Electromagnetics – PTZE (PSAE), honorary member of Macedonian Section for power electronics, drives and control MAK-ZEEPU, member of CIGRE International and the Chair of CIGRE-North Macedonia B4 Committee.

State-of-the-Art Technology for Innovative Electric Motors

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Electric motor is one of the few inventions that shaped electrical technology the most. The very beginning of the electric motor is found exactly two hundred years ago, in 1821. However, over the time many significant changes in the technology have been moving forward, opening new frontiers for innovative electric motors. In particular, new trends in e-mobility as the developments of EV (Electric Vehicles) and HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicles), forced new requirements related to size/weight of the drive and resulted in awesome innovations for in-wheel electric motors, thus creating substantial solutions.

The first question to be answered is “What makes an electric motor innovative?” First, it is an innovative design topology and use of novel materials, then an innovative production technology and, the most recently, new state-of-the-art manufacturing processes. A design engineer of electric motors is seeking for answers to the following: (i) What are structural/shape choices that define novel motor topology and make the motor better-performing? (ii) What are the most effective novel materials for obtaining the best of each component/shape in the design layout? (iii) How to extend the limits of the motor’s performance reached today? (iv) What are novelties in the electric motor design? (v) How is an innovative motor manufactured?

Another important aspect to discuss is certainly the state-of-the-art production technology. The most recent 3D printing technology developments, have added a huge value to the designing, prototyping as well as manufacturing processes. The broad spectrum of production applications has been unlocked. The significant reduction of time and money consumption, required for the stage of prototyping, led to cost-effective massive motor production. The laser technology is growing, becoming more workable and affordable, such that additive manufacturing (AM) from 3D printing of only parts of an electric motor has been moved to the printing even the whole motor structure. Using 3D computer aided design (CAD), and having in hand 3D scanners, additive manufacturing allows the creation of objects with precise geometrical shapes, built layer by layer with adding multi-material, opposite to classical manufacturing when the excess of material is subtracting.

The AM technology is broadly divided in three types: (i) sintering whereby the material is heated without being liquified to create complex high resolution objects; (ii) melting where metal powders are melted so that the particles stick together and shaped; (iii) stereolithography, which uses the process of photopolymerisation, to create torque-resistant ceramic parts. In the talk few selected processes are discussed and elaborated: Fuse Deposited Material (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering/Melting (SLS/M), StereoLitography Apparatus (SLA).

To present days several pioneering research centres throughout the world have reported successful applications. At the end of this talk, more interesting applications are presented. It is started with the earliest practical implementation of 3D printing for the purpose of electric motor prototyping in e-mobility, where only some parts of the motor topology have been manufactured. However, the real challenge for electric motor designers is producing the whole motor by using AM, the task still rather complicated. The first fully 3D-printed stator, developed by an enthusiastic group of electrical engineers from Chemnitz University, Germany and premiered in 2018 at ‘Hannover Messe’ – the trade fair, will be presented and explained.

Keywords: Innovative motors, E-mobility, Novel materials, 3D-Printing, Additive manufacturing (AM), Fuse Deposited Material (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), StereoLitography Apparatus (SLA)

Kit Oung, PhD

I am an energy and resource efficiency strategist, consultant and trainer. I help businesses, both commercial and industrial companies across five continents, maximise their energy and resource efficiency; identify the minimum investment cost pathways; and reduce the often complex and technical messages in to a clear, meaningful and simple-to-understand business case.

Having worn many hats in my 24-year career – design, technical operations, management, consultancy, equipment supplier, energy performance contracting, training, and in policy development – I have a unique ability to understand technical and managerial challenges, work with different stakeholders, manage multi-disciplinary projects, identify opportunities for improvements, and troubleshoot performance deficits. My work helps managers to engage with senior executives, disarm barriers for performance improvement, and bring about its implementation in a safe and healthy manner.

I also train new and aspiring professionals, and in-company energy and resource efficiency champions in ISO 14001 environment management system, ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management system, ISO 50001 energy management system, integrated management systems, ESOS lead assessor qualification, at British Standards Institution (BSI), and Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).

I volunteer in IChemE’s Congress, IChemE’s Energy Community of Practice, IChemE’s annual sustainability awards judging panel, UNIDO’s global energy management leadership awards judging panel, and take part in developing Nationa, Regional and International standards. I chaired ISO 14002-2 (current), ISO 50002 (current), PAS51215, EN16247-3, and participated in the development of ISO 14001 series, ISO 50001 series, and EN16247 series of standards.
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ENERGY AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY: WHAT CAN SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS DO?

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The main aim of this presentation is to give an overview of the current state of play for energy and resource efficiency and the things that scientists and engineers can do to reduce energy and resource consumption, use them responsibly, minimise their environmental impact, and avoid irreversible climate change.

It covers the current understanding of why the application of energy and resource efficiency is much slower in real corporations than the available technologies and know-how. This is used to identify the broad actions that needed to be addressed in order to adopt and accelerate energy and resource efficiency.

Moreover, the presentation gives an overview of the life cycle of a corporation – its products and services – ranging from concept, design, through to the end of life, and highlights the actions scientists and engineers contribute at each of the life cycle stages.

Finally, the presentation rally participants to think about and declare the actions they will take to accelerate energy and resource efficiency.

Damir Varavec, PhD

Damir Varevac has received his MSc degree in Structural Engineering at Faculty of Civil Engineering in Zagreb, University of Zagreb and PhD degree in Structural Engineering from Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture Osijek, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek.

He is a licensed civil engineer, member of Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers. He is involved in implementation of Structural Eurocodes in Croatia for more than 15 years as a member of Technical Subcommittee 548/2 “Design of concrete structures” and 548/8 “Design of structures for earthquake resistance” in Croatian Standards Institute. He is currently the president of Technical Committee 548 “Structural Eurocodes” in CSI and member of the CEN TC250/SC8 Working Group 6 “Bridges” for preparing new draft of EN 1998-2.

Damir Varevac is full professor at Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture Osijek and currently is serving as Dean of the Faculty. He teaches the courses related to reinforced and prestressed concrete structures and bridges. His current field of interest is impact of explosions on engineering structures and testing of the structures with destructive and non-destructive methods. In his work he integrates traditional and state-of-the art techniques for evaluating existing structures, such as forced and ambient vibrations, ultrasound techniques and especially application of the ground penetrating radar, both in structural engineering as well as in archaeology and preservation of cultural heritage.

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Maria-Beatrice Andreucci, PhD

Maria-Beatrice Andreucci has received a MSc (cum laude) in Financial Economics from the Faculty of Economics, LUISS University (Rome, Italy); a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France); a MSc (cum laude) in Architecture from “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy) and a Doctoral Degree “Doctor Europaeus” in Environmental Design from the Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy).

She is a registered architect and an economist and focuses her professional activity, research and teaching on the application of environmental technological design and environmental economics theories, principles and methods on urban design and architecture projects.

In both teaching and researching, she levers on an extensive international professional experience in strategic planning and economic valuation, working on complex, integrated business development and corporate finance projects, consulting leading private and public institutions and corporations worldwide.

Research works led her to Europe, China and the USA for cross-cultural research on urban transition and climate-adaptive design.

Multidisciplinary approach, extensive international networking and research-through-design characterize her activities that she carry-on actively participating to national and international EU funded projects. She is Management Committee Member, representing Italy, of the Cooperation in Science and Technology COST Action CA19126 “Positive Energy Districts European Network” (“PED-EU-NET”) (2020-2024) that will drive the deployment of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) by harmonizing, sharing and disseminating knowledge and breakthroughs on PEDs across different stakeholders, domains and sectors at the national and European level.  In the “PED-EU-NET” COST Action she is also leading the working group responsible for “Dissemination, Outreach and Exploitation”.

Maria Beatrice Andreucci is a Steering Board member, expert and leader of the thematic working group “Urban Economies and Welfare” in JPI-UERA “Urban Europe Research Alliance” (since 2017); and Chair of IFLA “International Federation of Landscape Architects Advisory Circle”.

She is member of EDRA “Environmental Design Research Association”; and SITdA “Italian Society of Technology of Architecture”.

In the last five years, she has published 4 books, and more than 60 articles in scientific journals, and has delivered 45 speeches at international conferences and workshops. Her design projects have been published in international journals and have won recognitions and prizes at international levels.

Currently, she works as a Research Professor in the Doctoral Programme in Environmental Design, member of the Faculty of Architecture, and member of the Scientific Didactic Committee of the II level Master in Environmental Technological Design, at the Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture of “Sapienza” University of Rome.

The sustainability transition in Europe in an age of environmental, human and technological change.
A journey into experiences and perspectives

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