Academic and researcher from the University of Toulouse, France, Dr. Thierry Meynard visited the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, AC3E, as part of the project “Analysis and design of DC-DC converter for green hydrogen production in isolated networks,” funded by the International Collaboration Promotion Competition for Research Institutions Call 2023 of the National Research and Development Agency, ANID.

Dr. Meynard is also the Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research of the LAPLACE laboratory in Toulouse, and has a distinguished career in the research and development of multi-cell converters, magnetic components and design tools for power electronics, being co-inventor of several multilevel converter topologies used by companies such as: ABB, General Electric, Schneider Electric, among others.

The academic has been working with AC3E since its inception, a research collaboration that has brought significant research results in the area of energy together with researchers Dr. José Rodríguez, Dr. Samir Kouro and, on this occasion with Dr. Hugues Renaudineau, in addition to theses and student exchanges.

The project he is currently working on with Center researchers Dr. Renaudineau and Dr. Kouro is related to the use of partial power converters and their various applications, particularly in the production of green hydrogen. During his stay in Chile, they were able to experimentally test a partial converter from Dr. Meynard that gave very good results, which will be part of a new joint publication.

“My experience of collaboration with AC3E has been excellent. We are currently working on new converter topologies, which are essential to promote the use of renewable energies, as they allow to reduce costs and increase efficiency,” highlighted the French researcher.

“The collaboration we have with Dr. Maynard for this project allows us to confront two different visions of partial converters, obtaining new ideas together, which makes this work very interesting and productive. We have been able to take advantage of his vision and experience with multilevel and partial converters,” concluded Dr. Hugues Renaudineau, from AC3E.

During his visit to the Center, Professor Meynard took the opportunity to give two talks at the Casa Central of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, aimed at students and academics.