Electrical Power Engineering Unit

A teaching and research department member of the Research Institute of Energy of the University of Mons

Welcome to the Electrical Power Engineering Unit (EPEU) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Mons. The unit of about 20 people has teaching and research activities in power systems, electricity markets, power electronics, electrical machines and computational electromagnetics.

EPEU is an effective member of the Research Institute for Energy of UMONS. Its research activities involve two different streams of focus:

Power Systems and Markets Research
Power & Energy Conversion

EPEU is fully equipped with modern state-of-art testing instruments and data acquisition platforms (Labview, dSPACE) to undertake standard measurements on most electrical equipments, as well as with specific simulation and calculation softwares (PSIM, Comsol Multiphysics, Neplan, etc.). It hosts also a High-Voltage laboratory dedicated to teaching and industrial testing and measurement (breakdown voltage, leakage current, etc.). Non-destructive tests are possible mainly for dielectric loss and capacitance measurement (Schering bridge) and for resistivity measurement (measuring cell).

The unit gets funding from regional/community (e.g. Walloon Region (DG06), F.R.S.-FNRS, etc.), federal (e.g. Energy Transition Fund, F.R.S-FNRS) and European (e.g. ESA's Networking/Partnering Initiative) agencies as well as from industrial partners (e.g. in the context of the ALSTOM chair).