Digital high-speed electromechanical energy conversion research infrastructure for data-driven informatics environment (DIGI-REINFORCE)

High-speed electromechanical conversion technology offers promising solutions for the industry operating in the clean energy sector, because electrical machines operating at high rotational speeds are beneficial both for increasing the energy, material and cost efficiency of energy conversion and use, thereby providing options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector.

Consequently, an immense effort has been made in recent years to redesign and optimize various industrial processes.

However, there is still a large potential for increasing energy efficiency through the adoption of high-speed electromechanical conversion technology by industry.

Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology has established a research infrastructure which is a well-equipped laboratory capable of providing a safe testing environment for electronic devices and drives up to 20 MW.

The goal is to develop the infrastructure and associated expertise into a new digital high-speed electromechanical energy conversion research infrastructure for data-driven informatics environment (DIGI-REINFORCE) where novel approaches and applications of physical sensors in the EMs generate data to obtain a more complete knowledge base that is required to broaden the understanding of multidisciplinary technology and better exploit the full potential of digital twin data modelling.