AAU Energy Ph.D. student Bo Yao gets prestigious award as Young Engineer

The Award is donated by the SEMIKRON Foundation in cooperation with the European ECPE network (Europen Center for Power Electronics).

Bo Yao was awarded for his work "A Robust kV and kA Testing Method for DC/AC Capacitors". He has created an innovative test method, which can emulate electrical stress to DC and AC capacitors with a minimum hardware cost and low energy consumption. The award committee highlights a well-presented circuit topology and control structure, corresponding testing capability and superior benchmark compared to existing test methods. As they state: "It will not only offer significant energy savings during the capacitor test but also contribute to the safe and reliable converter operation in renewable energy and sustainable transport applications". 

Bo Yao is the first winner of the award from a Danish University. He says: "It is a great honor for me to receive the SEMIKRON Young Engineer Award 2023. This is a nice opportunity to present our research about capacitor testing to the public. Thank you so much to my supervisor, Professor Huai Wang, for his patient and careful guidance to my research. In addition, I would like to thank the ReliaPEC research group and the X-Power test facility at AAU, as well as all our group members".