Stillingstittel:
Research fellow in Dynamics and control of integrated energy systems

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

University College of Southeast Norway was established 1 January 2016, and has about 16 000 students and about 1500 employees. The university college is temporarily organized in eight faculties, with instruction and R&D activities on eight campuses. The main profile of the university college is to provide socially relevant education, geared towards specific professions, and adapted to the requirements of the workplace, as well as to produce applied research and development.

Jobbnorge ID: 125740

Faculty of Technology has a vacancy for a position as Research Fellow in Dynamics and control of integrated energy systems from August 15, 2016.

The position is attached to Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics and reports to the Head of Department. The place of employment is Porsgrunn.

QualificationsApplicants to the PhD position must have a Master's degree or equivalent higher education qualifications in systems and control engineering, engineering cybernetics, physics or applied mathematics, with proven competence in development of physical based models, their numerical solution, as well as state and parameter estimation, advanced control, and optimization. As the position involves a fair amount of computer programming, experience in object oriented programming is an advantage, in particular experience with the languages Modelica and Python. The applicant must have gained the degree within August 1, 2016.

It is a requirement that the successful applicant is granted admission to the university college's doctoral programme in Process, Energy and Automation Engineering.

In addition to formal qualifications, emphasis is put on motivation for research, ability to work independently and focused, ability to work in a team, good communication skills, good command of the English language. A research visit to a partner university in USA is desirable.

Information about the positionThe research topic is Dynamics and control of integrated energy systems. To make the study concrete, the application will be within hydro power systems, but in such a way that the developed methods and tools are relevant for other energy systems, too. To this end, the study will include (i) modelling and development of a hydro power library, (ii) methods and tools for decomposition into different time scales and/or decoupling into subsystems, (iii) look at possibilities for power flow modelling and control, and (iv) at least one case study, with development of models and testing of control strategies.

Regarding part (i), the study should aim at developing a set of models relevant for hydro power production from precipitation, via transport through the catchment to dams or rivers (hydrology), as well as flow in rivers and/or pressure shafts to the turbine, including turbine, various pressure shock damping devices, and possibly including generator. The models should preferably be encoded in a Modelica library, and should enable interaction with other libraries "downstream" from the generator, e.g. including transmission, and consumption. The Modelica library should be sufficiently rich to enable realistic studies in academia and the hydro power industry. It should be possible to extend the library with other types of sustainable energy sources. Because the indicated subsystems span a wide range of time constants, particular emphasis must be put on developing efficient models for various uses of the library.

Regarding part (ii), methods for efficient analysis of the models for decomposition/decoupling should be studied. The developed methods should be implemented as tools. A possible way to do this, is to use the Python interface of OMPython in OpenModelica, and then develop analysis tools within Python. Examples of tools for analysis should include automatic linearization, interface to Python control libraries, g

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Høgskolen i Sørøst-Norge

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Kjølnes ring 56 3918 PORSGRUNN

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Telemark

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år