IEEE Tallahassee PES Chapter Technical Seminar

Title: Surface Treatment of Materials for Enhanced Adhesion for Terminations of Power and Data Cables

Presenter: Horatio Rodrigo, PhD, Visiting Researcher, Center for Advanced Power Systems, Tallahassee, Florida
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM, Thursday, May 19, 2022

Location: Center for Advanced Power Systems, Research Foundation Building A, Conference Room 140, 2000 Levy Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida 32310

Refreshments will be served

Abstract

Cable terminations are an important aspect of any system where cables are used to transfer electric power and data. Often the cables fail not along the length but at the terminations. This is a short overview of methods employed to improve the performance of cables. Two methods that are widely used for enhancement of bonding of materials are presented. A few relevant results used as standards for determining the strength of bonds are also presented.

Brief Bio of Dr. Horatio Rodrigo

Horatio Rodrigo graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of (RMIT). After a three-year stint as a test engineer, he proceeded to the University of Liverpool, UK and successfully completed a PhD in the department of Electrical Engineering, on the physics of gas discharges and high voltage engineering.

Since graduating from University of Liverpool, he was a post doc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The University of London, and University of Melbourne. He then joined The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) as a senior Research Scientist in Electrical Plasmas. After that he joined Michigan Technological University in May 1991 as an Associate Professor. Between May 1997 and June 1999, he was a visiting scientist in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working in the development of the first superconducting cable in collaboration with South Wire Company in Carrollton Georgia. He was back in RMIT until 2001. From January 2001 to February 2002, he was awarded a Senior Research Fellow position at the University of Manchester UK. The fellowship was awarded by the Engineering and physical Sciences Research Council of UK & the Royal Society. He briefly returned to RMIT. In May 2004 he joined CAPS as an Associate Scholar Scientist. He left CAPS in October 2012 and worked for Dielectric Sciences in Chelmsford Massachusetts until June 2017.Since then he has been an independent consultant working on a variety of engineering related fields.

Dr. Horatio Rodrigo