
Program
The program is still under development.
Feel free to come back from time to time to get the latest information.
Conference at a Glance

Wondering how the program will look like? Have a look at our synopsis below:
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Welcome Conference - Sunday 18th from 17:00 to 18:30
by M. Serge Haroche 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics
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Opening Conference - Monday morning from 09:00 to 10:30
"Belgium’s Offshore Energy Hub" by M. Markus Berger, chief officer, Infrastructure, ELIA.
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Closing Round Table - Wednesday 21st from 16:30 to 18:30
"The role of the insulated cable systems for the energy transition and the sustainability"





Scientific Program
- AC and DC cable design - AC projects & technical optimisation - Ageing laws: methods, experimentation, validity - Availability & fault location - Cable characteristics and cable modelling - Cable systems for offshore wind power plants and oil platforms - Cables and their accessories design - DC cable systems projects & technical optimisation - DC cables and accessories design - Design adaptation to deal with new operating conditions - Development tests, evaluation, prequalification tests, type tests, acceptance and after installation tests - Environment & sustainability - Fault location methods - GIL and GIS - Industrial cables - Laying methods - Materials characterisation: electric, physical and chemical - Methods for assessing the properties and characteristics of materials - Miscellaneous methods of testing - Monitoring - New materials for cables and accessories - On-line diagnosis of materials - Optimisation & operating conditions - PD testing as an asset management tool - Projects, design & installation of submarine cables - Quality assurance & standardisation - Space charge mesurement - Static and dynamic mechanical stresses during laying and operation - Steady state rating, dynamic current reting and RTTR - Testing methods - Testing of accessories and conductor connectors

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Session 1
Materials and Diagnostic

Session 2
Cables and accessories design and modelling

Session 3
Testing methods

Session 4
DC and AC cable systems

Technical visits
4 technical visits are planned on Thursday, June 22th.
Reservation for the technical visit of the Nuclear Plant "Bugey" is possible until April 27th!
Buses services will be organized for each visit (return included).


COMBINED VISITS MORNING 2/AFTERNOON 3 and MORNING 3/AFTERNOON 2 ARE POSSIBLE (light Lunch organized in between).
Tutorials
4 tutorials are planned on Sunday, June 18th from 15:00 to 16:30 and on Monday, June 19th from 19:00 to 20:30.
Tutorials are by reservation only.

MVDC grid perspectives: applications, operations, equipment and cable systems
by Piotr Dworakowski & Martin Henriksen
TUTORIAL 4
