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Solid state transformers course – e-lesson #8: Distributed generation and renewables sources

Intermediate level Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 2:00 PM TZ Europe/Zagreb
Intermediate level

Hosted by: Mario Salano / Intermediate level

Topics of the 8th lesson are:

·       Uniting distributed generation and renewable energy.

·       Quick review of various technologies, such as solar power, wind turbines, fuel cells, small hydro, biomass, geothermal and ocean (waves and tidal) energy systems.

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The main topic of this session is the considerations of products that meet technical specifications overcoming business and social problems: concept applied to line frequency transformers.

As the course author – Mr. Salano – likes to  put it: Technical specification is the mother of every design as it communicates the needs and requirements of the users in manageable technical data.

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Keywords: specification, requirements, design, data sheet, standards

About the author

Mario Salano

Mr. Salano’s expertise in the field of power transformers comes from a well established engineering skills acquired in “Salano transformers”, renowned Italian company that manufactured line-frequency power transformers for Italian power utilities. While inheriting the company from his father, Sig. Mario Salano used his vast engineering skills and he managed to maintain the company in rough period of seventies, adding new technologies and novel approaches to traditional values and products of “Salano transformers”.

His current interests include high-efficiency distribution transformers, the impact of nonlinear loads on power transformers, novel materials for transformer cores and also high-frequency power transformers for the use in conjunction with power electronics topologies.