IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
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Energy Conversion in Next-generation Electric Ships
The Theme: Modern navy ships, vessels, and ferries require an integrated electrical network with significantly more power capacity
and faster transient characteristics than traditional fleets. Maritime power systems may operate in islanded mode when the ship is at sea,
and in grid-connected mode when the ship docs to the seaport. Thus, maritime microgrids may resemble some analogies to commercial
microgrids with similar issues and opportunities, and the other way around. In electric ship applications, the propulsion, distribution,
emergency, and pulsed loads such as radars, rail guns, and aircraft launchers, are becoming significant challenges for the overall ship
power network. The energy storage requirements may vary in complexity, construction, and cost to accommodate the operation of such
pulsed loads. To interconnect those energy storage components, the onboard dc distribution is often used to improve the energy
conversion efficiency. Since many machinery and loads are still working on ac, hybrid onboard ac/dc microgrids are becoming common.
Therefore, the use of hybrid ac/dc maritime microgrid systems, which allow integrating ac generators, ac and dc energy storage systems,
and ac and dc critical and noncritical loads is often considered for practical and economic solutions. This Special Section will bring
together researchers and practitioners industry, research laboratories, academia and government to present and discuss challenges and
opportunities related to energy conversion in next-generation electric ships and future maritime electric power systems. The particular
topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
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Integrated electric power system architectures, including breakerless and superconducting dc systems
Electric ship design tools, methods, and guidelines: analysis, synthesis, modeling, and simulation methods and techniques.
Electric propulsion and generation: machines, variable speed drives, and propulsors
Electrical power conversion for ac and/or dc distribution
Energy storage and pulsating loads: integration, control, impact on system performance and transients
Power distribution, cabling, grounding, current limiting, and fault detection
Protection control, reconfiguration, and survivability of naval energy conversion devices and systems
Energy conversion devices and systems for dynamic positioning control
Centralized, decentralized and distributed algorithms for dynamic reconfiguration and post-fault system restoration
Optimization algorithms for normal and abnormal operation of integrated ship systems
Power and energy managements systems for electrical ships, power sharing strategies, survivability and/or environmental effects
Maritime drivers, improvements offered by integrated electrical/electronic power systems
Power quality in ship power systems
Manuscript Preparation and Submission
Prior to preparing a full paper, please prepare a 500 - 1000 word Extended Abstract. Please submit your Extended Abstract in electronic
form through Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tec-pes). During step 1 of the submission process, select the
manuscript type Special Section: Energy Conversion in Next-generation Electric Ships (abstract submission).
The team of Guest Editors will evaluate the submitted abstracts for appropriateness and timeliness, and invite the authors to submit a full
paper. Upon approval of your Abstract, please submit the Full Manuscript in electronic form through the same Manuscript Central web
site, as a new submission.
Timetable
Deadline for extended abstracts
Authors’ notification
Full papers are due
Manuscript first decision
Revised paper due
Manuscript final decision
Estimated publication date
15 March 2016
1 April 2016
15 June 2016
1 September 2016
1 October 2016
15 November 2016
1 January 2017
Editor-in-Chief:
Juri Jatskevich, PhD
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jurij@ece.ubc.ca
Tel: +1-604-827-5217
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
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Guest Editorial Board:
Josep M. Guerrero, Guest Editor-In-Chief,
Aalborg University, Denmark, joz@et.aau.dk
Ali Davoudi, Guest Co-Editor-In-Chief,
University of Texas-Arlington, davoudi@uta.edu
Mohamed Belkhayat, Huntington Ingalls Industry – Newport News Shipbuilding, Mohamed.belkhayat@hii-nns.com
Tomislav Dragicevic, Aalborg University, tdr@et.aau.dk
Mohamed El Hachemi Benbouzid, University of Brest, France, Mohamed.Benbouzid@univ-brest.fr
Keith A. Corzine, Clemson University, United States, corzine@clemson.edu
Aaron M. Cramer, University of Kentucky, United States, aaron.cramer@uky.edu
Roger Dougal, University of South Carolina, United States, dougal@cec.sc.edu
Shantha Gamini, Australian Maritime Collage, Univ. of Tasmania, Australia, shanthaj@utas.edu.au
Yuri Khersonsky, Consultant, United States, ykhersonsky@ieee.org
Samir Kouro, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Valparaíso, Chile samir.kouro@usm.cl
Marta Molinas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway marta.molinas@ntnu.no
Antonello Monti, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, amonti@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
Yi Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, yitang@ntu.edu.
Daniel Opila, United States Naval Academy, United States, opila@usna.edu
Erik Hennie, Sintef, Norway, Erik.Hennie@marintek.sintef.no
Asgeir J. Sørensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, asgeir.sorensen@ntnu.no
Giorgio Sulligoi, University of Trieste, Italy, gsulligoi@units.it
Scott D. Sudhoff, Purdue University, United States, sudhoff@purdue.edu
Kai Sun, Tsinghua University, China sun-kai@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Tomasz Tarasiuk, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland, t.tarasiuk@we.am.gdynia.pl
Editor-in-Chief:
Juri Jatskevich, PhD
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jurij@ece.ubc.ca
Tel: +1-604-827-5217
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada