Condition monitoring of High Voltage/Medium Voltage insulation system – research in GCU and state-of-the-art technology

· Background – why condition monitoring
· Technical challenges
· Research in GCU
· Technology-state-of-the-art
· Product and service provided by Prof. Zhou research team

· Discussions

报告人介绍：

Chengke Zhou (M’07) received his BSc and MSc in 1983 and 1986 respectively from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Having received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Manchester, UK in 1994, he joined the School of Engineering and Computing at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in 1994 and worked as Post-Doc Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer until August 2006 when he joined Heriot-Watt University as a Reader. In June 2007 he returned to GCU as a Professor.

Prof. Zhou has over 20 year research experience in power systems. His research interests include partial discharge based power plant condition monitoring, statistics based modelling for power plant failure and condition monitoring data analysis, modelling and analysis of power systems for design, control and operation of future Smart Grid. Prof. Zhou is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of IET and a member of IEEE. He has so far published over 100 papers.