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Special Sessions 8 (SS8):

Title: Eco Design of Electric energy converters

• Jean-Christophe Crebier (primary contact person), Université Grenoble Alpes, G2ELab, UGA/Grenoble-INP/CNRS, France,
  jean-christophe.crebier@g2elab.grenoble-inp.fr

• Vincent Debusschere, Université Grenoble Alpes, G2Elab, UGA/Grenoble-INP/CNRS, France, vincent.debusschere @g2elab.grenoble-inp.fr

• Hamid Ben Ahmed, Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire SATIE, ENS Rennes, France, benahmed@bretagne.ens-cachan.fr

Special session theme:

Electricity is expected to become the main energy vector, worldwide, notably to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Electric mobility, renewable energies, more electric appliances and entertainments, all these applications are rising the pressure of electrical systems on the environmental with respect to, for instance, greenhouse gas emissions, manufacture and recycling wastes.

This special session is focused on state-of-the-art researches toward eco-design, life cycle analysis of electrical systems.

Contributors are welcome to submit their update on database collection, on developed tools and methods, aiming to consider environmental impact on their design manufacturing processes and recycling techniques. Second life consideration, repairability, fault tolerance and more generally any option enlarging the usage duration and robustness of the considered system are of interest.

Also, more transverse works related to regulations, human and social sciences related to electrical systems sustainability are welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Eco design methods of electrical converters, including power electronics converters, machines, magnetic devices and electrical parts of renewable electric sources.
• Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of devices and systems related to electrical converters listed above.
• Research and developments toward converter sustainability before end of life management, including, fault tolerance, repair, circularity, second life, …
• End of life management of electrical devices and systems, including collect, recycling, disassembly, reconditioning, …
• Contributions to database, indicators developments toward eco-design and LCA.
• Original research work toward the analysis of integration, monolithic and hybrid, the, standardization, blocs-based design, collective processes, …
• Original research works on:

-the coming impact of electrical converters on the planet

-the social and human sciences related to practice, usage

-the evolution of business models toward more resilience of the field

-the regulation options to drive electrical system design, manufacture, usage and end of file in the more sustainable way.