Michael Reichel (ari)
The founding rector of the technical college and today's university in Ilmenau was the "high-tensioner" Professor Hans Stamm. As the technical director of a Dresden company specializing in high-voltage testing and X-ray technology, he was commissioned to establish a university for electrical engineering. By choosing Ilmenau, he continued the tradition of the Thuringian Technical Center, where high-voltage technology was already part of the curriculum at the beginning of the 20th century. It was important for the development of electrical power supply equipment in the GDR to develop durable, predominantly 50 Hz insulation systems using new materials and technologies. The close link between technology, physics and chemistry in the department of high-voltage engineering founded by Prof. Stamm, which existed until 2003, was unique and recognized worldwide.
In the years that followed, high-voltage research received new, strong impetus, above all from power electronics, with which electrical energy can be optimally converted into the desired form for a wide variety of applications, for example in drive, process, environmental and medical technology (CT, MRI). In addition to switched direct current, constant direct current is (once again) in vogue today at relatively high voltages. Large amounts of energy - 525 kV cables are currently being laid - can be transmitted over hundreds of kilometers with low losses. The (side) effects of high direct and higher-frequency alternating voltages, as well as mixed voltage forms, are the subject of research today and are illustrated with the help of small experiments.
Speaker Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Leu is Professor of Electrical Power Supply and High Voltage Engineering at HTWK Leipzig. Until 2020, he taught switchgear and high-voltage technology at TU Ilmenau and, as an academic advisor, headed the "High-Voltage Technologies" research group at TU Ilmenau, in which doctoral students researched new topics in high-voltage technology.
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