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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 09/June/2025
7:00am
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8:00am
Breakfast
Location: Egret & Heron & Pelican
7:00am
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5:00pm
Registration
Location: Board Room
8:00am
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8:10am
Opening & Safety
Location: Egret & Heron & Pelican
Chair: Mark Winkeler, ELANTAS PDG, Inc., United States of America
8:10am
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9:30am
Exhibitors GigaWatt Presentation
Location: Egret & Heron & Pelican
Chair: Mark Winkeler, ELANTAS PDG, Inc., United States of America
8:30am
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6:00pm
Exhibitors
Location: Spoonbill & Ibis
9:30am
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10:30am
SpaceX Update
Location: Egret & Heron & Pelican
10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee Break
Location: Spoonbill & Ibis
11:00am
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12:00pm
Rotating Machines
Location: Egret
Chair: Inna Kremza, Voith Hydro Mississauga, Canada
 
11:00am - 11:30am

Review of activities of IEEE PES EMC Materials Subcommittee

N. Frost1, A. Simard2, R. Draper3, S. Sitler4

1: Frosty's Zap Lab, LLC, United States of America; 2: Hydro Quebec, Canada; 3: Andritz, Canada; 4: GE Vernova, United States of America



11:30am - 12:00pm

Comparison of New and Old High Voltage Diamond Coil Electrical Insulation Performance for Hydroelectric Generators

A. Thomas1, M. Widdowson1, B. Maynard1, S. Muthukumaran1, R. So2, J. Floyd2, K. Hargreaves2

1: Preformed Windings, United Kingdom; 2: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Power, Distribution and Instruments Transformers
Location: Heron
Chair: Alan Sbravati, Hitachi Energy, United States of America
 
11:00am - 11:30am

Condition Assessment of Power Transformers: Tools for Correlating Dissolved Gas Analysis and Offline Electrical Testing

D. Robalino1, M. Meira2, R. Alvarez3

1: MEGGER, USA; 2: INTELYMEC (UNCPBA), Argentina; 3: IITREE UNLP, Argentina



11:30am - 12:00pm

Extended Transformer Dynamic Thermal Model for Cold Climate Operation

A. Al-Abadi1, A. Gamil2

1: HITACHI Energy, Germany; 2: HITACHI Energy, Germany

Emerging Technologies in Dielectrics and Insulation Materials
Location: Pelican
Chair: Evanne Wang, DuPont, United States of America
 
11:00am - 11:30am

Influence of Environmental Aging on the Dielectric and Conductivity Behavior of Polyimide

J. AHMAD, M. Ghaffarian Niasar

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The



11:30am - 12:00pm

CFD Simulations and Energy Balance of a High Voltage Gas Circuit Breaker

M. T. Dhotre1, M. Schwinne2, P. Stoller3

1: Hitachi Energy, Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Hitachi Energy Research, Baden-Daettwil, Switzerland; 3: Hitachi Energy, Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
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3:00pm
Rotating Machines
Location: Egret
Chair: Scott Cotner, US Army Corps of Engineers, United States of America
 
1:30pm - 2:00pm

Understanding of the abnormalities in the measurements of insulation dielectrical losses for high voltage rotating machines.

A. Khazanov

National Electric Coil, United States of America



2:00pm - 2:30pm

Impact of Thermal Cycling-Induced Groundwall Insulation De-bonding at Conductor Interface on Dielectric Strength and Voltage Endurance Performance of Turbine Generator Stator Bars

S. Sitler

GE Vernova, United States of America



2:30pm - 3:00pm

Aging of components due to partial discharge degradation components

N. Frost2, E. Frisch1, S. Reizes1

1: OFIL Systems, Israel; 2: Frosty's Zap Lab, LLC, United States of America

Testing, Diagnostics, and Condition Assessment
Location: Heron
Chair: James Steele, Southwire, LLC, United States of America
 
1:30pm - 2:00pm

Machine Learning Applied to Thermally Aged Cable Reflectometry

S. W. Glass1, A. Kaforey2, M. Taufique1, M. Elen1, J. Farber2, K. Hasan1, J. R. Tedeschi1, L. S. Fifield1

1: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America; 2: Idaho National Laboratory, United States of America



2:00pm - 2:30pm

Automated Three-dimensional Construction and Electrical Field Calculation of Basin-type Insulators

Y. Leng, Y. Wang, X. Hong

Chongqing University, China, People's Republic of



2:30pm - 3:00pm

More than Twenty Years of Experiences with Commissioning Testing of HV & EHV Cable Systems with Near Power Frequency Withstand & Partial Discharge Testing

M. Fenger

Kinectrics Inc., Canada

Emerging Technologies in Dielectrics and Insulation Materials
Location: Pelican
Chair: Dr. Farhina Haque, The University of Akron, United States of America
 
1:30pm - 2:00pm

Is bistrifluoromethyl sulfide (CF3SCF3) an eco-friendly dielectric replacement gas for sulfur hexafluoride?

M. Zhang, J. He, H. Hou, B. Wang

Wuhan University, China, People's Republic of



2:00pm - 2:30pm

Best-in-Class Stator Winding Insulation System for Large Rotating Machines with Enhanced Dielectric Performance

S. U. Haq1, G. Hanna2, M. TS Moorthy3, M. Khan4, T. Toledo5

1: GE Vernova; 2: GE Vernova; 3: GE Vernova; 4: GE Vernova; 5: GE Vernova



2:30pm - 3:00pm

Parylene HT Electrets Charge Stability Analysis at High Temperatures

P. C. Saha, A. M. Juberi, O. Faruqe, C. Park

Arizona State University, United States of America

3:00pm
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3:30pm
Coffee Break
Location: Spoonbill & Ibis
3:30pm
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4:30pm
Rotating Machines
Location: Egret
Chair: Mladen Sasic, Iris Power, Canada
 
3:30pm - 4:00pm

Optimization of Thermal Cycle Testing Setup of Bars of High-Voltage Turbo Generator

A. Nikolaev, A. Khazanov, A. Gegenava

National Electric Coil, United States of America



4:00pm - 4:30pm

Improvement in Materials for Workers on Hydro Generator Sites

M. Wantuch1, S. Bomben2, R. Draper3

1: Astro Chemical; 2: Ontario Power Generation; 3: Andritz Hydro

Testing, Diagnostics, and Condition Assessment
Location: Heron
Chair: Dr. Richard Cselko, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 
3:30pm - 4:00pm

Accelerated Water Tree Test on EPDM flat samples: methods and electrical characterization

G. Patanè1, S. Suraci1, S. Dossi2, A. Galanti2, D. Fabiani1

1: LIMES - DEI, University of Bologna, Italy; 2: Mixer Compounds, Bagnacavallo (RA), Italy



4:00pm - 4:30pm

Condition assessment of bushings using DFR

P. Werelius2, E. Ermakov1, L. Jonsson1, H. Rudegard1

1: Hitachi Energy Sweden AB, Sweden; 2: Megger Sweden AB

Emerging Technologies in Dielectrics and Insulation Materials
Location: Pelican
Chair: Dr. Mahesh Tulshiram Dhotre, Hitachi Energy, Switzerland
 
3:30pm - 4:00pm

The Effect of a Thermally Conductive Resin on Heat Dissipation When Applied in a Thin Film

N. Hussey, M. Winkeler, T. Q. N. Nguyen

ELANTAS PDG, Inc., United States of America



4:00pm - 4:30pm

Valence-bond based machine-learning structure‐activity relationship models to assess the performance of gaseous dielectrics in multidimensional aspects

M. Zhang, H. Hou, B. Wang

Wuhan University, China, People's Republic of

4:30pm
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6:00pm
Poster-2
Location: Spoonbill & Ibis
Chair: Valeria Blaze, Manitoba Hydro, Canada
 

Long Short-Term Memory Network for Classification of Partial Discharges

I. A. Ampem, P. Basappa, M. Aguadze

Norfolk State University, United States of America



The Influence of Polarity Reversal on Leakage Current in XLPE Samples

S. Shahtaj1, P. Ratheiser2, U. Schichler2, B. Stewart1

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: Graz University of Technology, Austria



Targeted inhibition of electrical tree in XLPE cables by electric field-induced rejuvenation fluid

W. Yaping1,2, Z. Kai2, Z. Xurui2

1: Northwest Minzu University; 2: Sichuan University



Convolution Neural Network in Partial Discharge Source Identification: Performance Analysis for Lab-based Data and Electric Machine

M. R. K. Shagor, Z. F. Mouri, F. Haque

The University of Akron, United States of America



Application of Comsol for TEV Sensor Detection Simulation of PD in MV Switchgears

M. Miljanovic1, M. Kearns2, B. G Stewart1

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: 2EDF Energy



Dielectric Dissipation Factor (Tan delta) of liquids: how to avoid incorrect measurements

F. SCATIGGIO, G. CAMPI

A&A FRATELLI PARODI, Italy



Verification and Application of a Set of Linear Equations for Simultaneous Detection of Methane, Ethylene, and Ethane in Transformer Oil Based on Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

B. Tang1,2, W. Guan3, K. Li1, Z. Liu4, F. Ma4

1: Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing, China; 2: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 3: North University of China, Shanxi,China; 4: State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co., Ltd., Electric Power Research Institute,Anhui,China



Switch Controller Implementation for Testing a Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Using Synthetic Test Circuit

M. S. A. Hossain1, S. Catania1, H. Shabani1, Z. Jin2, L. Graber2, C. Park3

1: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, United States of America; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; 3: Arizona State University, United States of America



Experimental Investigation on Detection and Localization of AC Partial Discharge in Form Wound Stator Windings in Rotating Machines using HFCT Sensors

T. Kajiyama1, Y. Nagatani1, K. Miyazaki1, M. Hikita1, T. Kuno1, T. Iwanaga2, M. Kozako1, K. Zaizen2, T. Yamada2, Y. Inoue2, T. Okamoto2

1: kyusyu Institute of Technology, Japan; 2: TMEIC corporation



Parameter Optimization of MOSA for MVDC Circuit Breakers Based on Required Performance Using Short-Circuit Current Test-bed Simulation

I. KWON, Y. KWAK, J.-C. LEE, B. LEE

Hanyang University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)



New Algorithm for Rotor Ground Wall Condition Assessment of Large Salient Pole Generators

J. Pedneault-Desroches1, G. Kahwati2, M. Arezki3, A.-H. Kamal4, É. David5

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 3: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 4: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 5: ÉTS



Electric Field Stress Reduction in High Voltage Cable Joint by Functional Capacitive Field Grading Composites

O. Faruqe1, A. M. Juberi1, S. A. Sufi1, P. C. Saha1, N. Uzelac2, C. Park1

1: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA; 2: G&W Electric Company, Bolingbrook, IL 60440, USA



Rotor Pole Interturn Insulation Assessment in Large Salient Pole Generators Using RSO, SFRA, Air Gap Flux, and Pole Drop Test

J. Pedneault-Desroches1, M. Arezki2, K. Al-Haddad3, É. David3

1: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 2: Hydro-Québec, Canada; 3: ÉTS



TEV Sensor-Based PD Measurements with a Focus on PRPD Patterns and FFT Analysis

M. Abbasi1, M. Lachance2, E. David1

1: Ecole de technologie superieure, Montreal, Canada; 2: OMICRON electronics Canada, Toronto, Canada

5:45pm
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7:00pm
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