One of the most prominent features of the degree programme “Electrical Engineering and Information Technology” with focus on Electrical Power Engineering is its close orientation towards practice.
Students can acquire high subject-related expertise through modules that build on each other and are coordinated in terms of content within a practical course.
Courses currently offered:
Once the practical semesterhas been completed, scientific & independent work is taught when writing the bachelor's thesis. Further technical, scientific and personal competences are imparted through the master's degree programme. Committed and interested graduates can also continue their scientific education through a cooperative doctorate. You will find more detailed information about this on the website of the Institute for Power Engineering and High Voltage Technology (IEHT).
Impressions from the practical course in high-voltage technology:
The High-Voltage Laboratory cooperates with numerous leading companies from the area of high-voltage and power engineering, and with other industrial users of high-voltage technology. The High-Voltage Laboratory is closely involved in the current research activity of the Institute for Power Engineering and High Voltage Technology (IEHT). This results in many topics for students to work on as a final thesis, providing a good preparation for their professional practice, as well as interesting opportunities for their career start. We offer jobs for student assistants, internships during Bachelor’s and Diploma programmes, cooperative Bachelor’s, Diploma, and Master's theses, followed by positions as research associate in connection with a cooperative doctoral projects. Generally, the final theses are completed in connection with current research topics of the IEHT.
Information on the Master’s programme in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology are found on the programme homepage.
If you are interested in writing a final thesis, please contact the laboratory manager directly. We are predominantly looking for graduates from electrical power engineering, but also for candidates from communication engineering, automation engineering/engineering informatics, mechatronics, and material sciences. In addition, please observe to postings on the board of the laboratory/institute.
The research field of high-voltage technology and of insulating systems is essential in our modern industrial society. High voltages or high field strengths in the insulation systems are needed for the low-loss transmission of electrical energy as well as for a variety of industrial applications from medical to manufacturing to automotive technology; because only in this way can insulation systems be designed efficiently and the products manufactured economically.
High-voltage technology includes the control of high electrical field strengths in all types of electric insulators. The simply formulated basic principle is:
The electrical stress (i.e. the electric field strength) must always be less than the electrical strength of the insulating media under all conditions.
Thus, the task of high-voltage technology is not the generation of electric discharges (although they look very impressing to the visitors of our lab), but their prevention to ensure a safe operation of devices and facilities.
The technical equipment of the High-Voltage Laboratory is unique in the German landscape of higher education institutions, and it is used for research and development projects both publically- and privately-funded. Thus, the Institute for Power Engineering and High Voltage Technology (IEHT) and the High-Voltage Laboratory contribute significantly to the profile of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and of FHWS.
Special competences lie in the fields of dielectric materials (oil, board, paper, RIP, SIR), the design of insulator systems (HVDC, HVAC, BIL) and condition diagnosis (PDC, KFT, measuring space charge using the Kerr effect and PEA method), damage analysis for equipment used for energy supply (transformers, feedthroughs) and in the application of high-voltage technology for industrial purposes.
Our partners are technologically leading companies, higher education institutions, the German Research Association (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Industrial Research Associations (AiF) or the Fraunhofer Society.
Through their involvement in scientific panels (e.g. in CIGRÉ Working Groups, the ETG subject area ‘cross-sectional technologies Q2’: Materials - Insulating systems - Diagnostics, the Würzburg Research Association for Functional Materials WFF) and through many co-operations, a close network between science and the economy is knit. Please find an overview about the latest publications on the IEHT website.
Current research areas of the IEHT and the High-Voltage Laboratory are:
... as in future, three-phase current grids worldwide will reach their performance limits, and need to be connected via HVDC technology.
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... because the grids of industrial nations were built decades ago, making reliable diagnostics about the their state of aging necessary for the safe operation of facilities ...
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... because outdated and strategically important facilities for energy supply require constant monitoring to prevent dangerous blackouts ...
... because many technical applications require the use of high voltages and field strengths ...
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The High-Voltage Technology Lab is also a cooperation partner for the regional and cross-regional industry, and provides its competence in the areas of applied research, as well as its technical equipment for the solution of service tasks. For questions regarding this topic, please contact the laboratory manager directly. [ZM1]verlinken
The Lab for Dielectric Diagnostics and Simulation is also integrated into the High-Voltage Laboratory, and is among the best-equipped labs in Bavaria. Thus, it holds a special position in the landscape of German institutions of higher education. Central facilities are the shielded high-voltage hall (approx. 16 m x 10 m x 10 m, base interference levels < 1 pC) with entrance for a lorry and crane (4 t) and testing facilities for
as well as several test cells equipped with portable high-voltage modular systems up to 200 kV (AC, DC, and impulse voltage), which can also be used off the premises. For generating lower voltages, there are several DC voltage sources up to 100 kV and an AC test systems up to 12 kV (electronically adjustable) available.
The most modern diagnostic possibilities include measuring systems for capacitance and dissipation factor, systems for analysing partial discharges, transient recorders, impulse current measuring systems, image enhancers, breakdown testers, analysers for polarisation and depolarisation current (PDC analysis), frequency range spectroscopy (FDS analysis), as well as systems for determining moisture in solid and liquid media using the Karl Fischer (FKT) method.
A highlight are our new test stands for determining space charge in liquid and solid dielectric media by means of the electro-optic Kerr effect and the Pulsed Electro Acoustic (PEA) method.
Special options for materials technology (e.g. oil preparation, drying, ageing, conditioning) exist in the form of oil preparation plants, vacuum heating cabinets, climatic chambers and vacuum technology. Electrical load and field strengths are calculated by means of modern simulation tools (e.g. software for the finite element method and network analysis)
University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS)
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Lab for High-Voltage Engineering
Ignaz-Schön-Str. 11
97421 Schweinfurt
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Access to the High-Voltage Laboratory is only possible via Paul-Gerhardt-Str.. Right before you enter Ingaz-Schön-Straße, there is the entry for cars and lorries to the turning loop in front of the large hall gate.
Work in the laboratory is carried out by qualified employees, Master’s graduates, and Bachelor’s students under supervision of professors. Within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and research associations, there are many opportunities to build specialist and technological cooperations.
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Thomas Göpfert
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Thomas Göpfert
Technical University of Applied Sciences
Phone +49 9721 940-8430 |
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Florian Swobodnik
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Florian Swobodnik
Technical University of Applied Sciences
Phone +49 9721 940-8839 |
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Prof. Dr. Markus Zink
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Prof. Dr. Markus Zink
Technical University of Applied Sciences
Phone +49 9721 940-8498 |
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