Ingeteam invest in R&D laboratories

High power electronics and electrical machines for marine propulsion are among the technologies to be researched by new laboratories planned by Ingeteam in Spain. The facilities, staffed by over 200 researchers, will be split between two separate but complementary centres at Zamudio and Beasain.

Ingeteam is a leader in designing and manufacturing wind turbine control equipment and power electronics feeding systems, last year supplying systems with an aggregate rating of over 2,500MW.

A High Power Electronic Laboratory in the Zamudio Technology Park will focus on studying medium power converters through experiments involving inductive loads. An initial phase will see research and tests on the converters at nominal current and voltage.

An Electric Machines Laboratory in Beasain will concentrate on electrical machines and machine-converter units with ratings up to 30MW and beyond, tests being both static and dynamic, off-load and short circuit.

Experimentation on the machine-converter unit will be completed in a second phase. Support will come from staff at the adjacent Indar factory in Beasain, which manufactures rotary machines for Ingeteam. MP