Dr. Liang Hucheng Wins 2019 IEEE DEIS Graduate Student Fellowship

Recently, the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE DEIS) released the winner’s list of the 2019 graduate fellowship. Dr. Liang Hucheng, from Tianjin University’s School of Electrical and Information Engineering won the 2019 IEEE DEIS graduate student fellowship.

The graduate fellowships, established by the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, are offered to further graduate education in the areas of electrical insulation and dielectric phenomena of interest to the Society and are open to suitable candidates from around the world. The fellowship is for students pursuing their Ph.D. degree. Research topics may cover a broad scope and include insulating media, their electric and dielectric properties and breakdown, charge transport and electrostatics, high voltage effects, and related subjects. Selection will be competitive. The general criteria used for project evaluation will be clarity of the presentation of the problem, relevance, innovative content, impact of the chosen topic and ability to accomplish the objective during the award period. The DEIS Graduate Student awards are competitive, and the research proposals are refereed by members of the DEIS Education Committee. Every year 3 to five doctoral students will win the fellowship with an award of 5000 dollars.

Dr. Liang Hucheng won the fellowship with the project "3D Electric Field Reconstruction inside Gas Insulated Transmission Lines by Induced Charge Tomography", which is directed by Professor Du Boxue and Associate Professor Li Jin. As a new type of power transmission equipment more advanced than cables and overhead lines, high voltage gas insulated transmission lines are challenged with the electric field distortion caused by random factors such as insulator defects, metal particles and surface charge accumulation during operation. The development of electric field distortions will lead to gas-solid interface breakdown, resulting in serious power failure and economic loss. In this project, the electrode array will be built in the pipeline to realize the accurate measurement of the induced charge distribution, and the spatial electric field distribution will be reconstructed by inversion calculation. The project is expected to fill the gap of spatial electric field distribution reconstruction technology, realize on-line monitoring of electric field distribution in high-voltage transmission and transformation equipment, and further improve the reliability of power system.

Dr. Liang Hucheng, an IEEE student member, received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and automation from Tianjin University in 2015. In the same year, he entered Tianjin University’s High Voltage and Insulation Technology Laboratory, pursuing his doctor's degree under the supervision of Professor Du Buxue. He is currently visiting the Institute of Future Materials and Systems, at Nagoya University, Japan. Mainly focusing on electric field regulation and measurement of gas insulated transmission pipelines, Dr. Liang has published 12 papers in IEEE and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) journals and 3 papers in EI (Engineering Index) journals as the first author, and has obtained the IEEE ICEMPE (International Conference on Electrical Materials and Power Equipment ) excellent student paper, graduate national scholarship, Bohai Securities scholarship, and the Tianjin University graduate research and innovation project and other honors.

By the School of Electrical and Information Engineering

Editors: Eva Yin & Doris Harrington