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Six IEEE Societies partnered in presenting the IEEE's
Electric Ship Technologies Symposium April 10th thru the 13th. Hosted at the
Westin Alexandria, thought leaders from around the globe were present to
address the challenges of increasing the capabilities and decreasing costs of
producing Electric Ships. Sponsoring societies of the IEEE included the Power
& Energy, Power Electronics, Industry Applications, Ocean Engineering, Dielectrics
and Electrical Insulation and Vehicular Technology. With experts from
propulsion hardware to controls software in attendance, each presenter faced a
number of pointed questions from the audience.
The Keynote speaker was Rear Admiral David H. Lewis of the
United States Navy, current Program Executive Officer, Ships. Responsible for
Navy shipbuilding for surface combatants, amphibious ships, logistics support
ships, support craft and related foreign military sales. Rear Admiral Lewis'
bio can be found HERE.
There were no easy questions from this community and answers
were not always readily available. Quickly arising from the group following
Plenary 1 were questions surrounding the planned rollout of numerous
technologies as well as the concept that the all electric ship may just sink
from the amount of cable necessary for operation.
The presentations covered research, design and future
advances in electric ship technologies. Other speakers covered integrated
electric power systems, open architecture, systems, component specifications
and electric propulsion. Over the three day conference there were presentations
on dynamic loads, electric power conversion, storage, distributions systems,
AC, medium voltage dc, high frequency ac, reconfiguration and testing. For a
full recap of the event including committees sponsor listing and more visit the
conference website at http://www.ests11.wordpress.com.
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