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Session 20: Icing on Power Equipment

“电网设备覆冰”

Session 20

Icing on Power Equipment
“电网设备覆冰”

Against the backdrop of global climate change and frequent extreme weather, icing of power grid equipment has become a major challenge threatening the safe and stable operation of power systems. Icing not only causes direct disasters such as transmission line breakage, insulator flashover and tower collapse, but may also cause regional power outages, economic paralysis and public safety crises. For example, the 2008 ice disaster in southern China destroyed tens of thousands of towers and left tens of millions without power; the extreme cold wave in North America in 2021 caused the collapse of the Texas power grid, with economic losses exceeding $100 billion. These events highlight the urgency of deepening icing research and developing new protection technologies.
This special session aims to gather the wisdom of global academia, industry and policymakers, systematically explore the scientific nature, disaster mechanism and response strategies of icing phenomena, and promote a leapfrog breakthrough from basic theory to engineering application.
The focus of the special session is about atmospheric icing on structures, where key research topics include:

  • Icing on structures: power lines, insulators, telecommunication towers, buildings, bridges, railway, roads, aviation, etc.
  • Icing modelling (analytics, numerical & experimental);
  • Ice detection & mitigation methods;
  • Anti-icing, de-icing, and ice-phobic materials;
  • Icing climate & forecasting.

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Fanghui Yin, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, China

Fanghui Yin is an associate professor at Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School. He serves as the deputy director of Guangdong Marine Renewable Energy Power Equipment and System Engineering Technology Research Center, vice chairman of IEEE DEIS 'Discharge in Air at UHV' Technical Committee, senior member of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, senior member of the Chinese Electrotechnical Society, Chinese expert of CIGRE WG B2.69, member of the Transmission and Transformation Equipment Simulation Technology Standards Committee of the China Electricity Council Standardization Technical Committee. He is mainly engaged in research on the reliability of electrical equipment in complex environments, insulator icing and anti-pollution flashover, insulating materials, wireless power transmission, etc. He has won the first prize of Chongqing Science and Technology Progress, the second prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Progress, the second prize of the Electrotechnical Society Science and Technology Progress, the second prize of the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation and Promotion Award, and other awards. He has published 2 books, 3 IEEE standards, 2 CIGRE technical brochures, 5 industry standards/group standards, and authored 21 patents.

Co-chair: Assoc. Prof. Lin Yang, South China University of Technology, China

He is an Associate Professor at the South China University of Technology. He is mainly engaged in the research of external insulation, condition monitoring, and fault diagnosis of electrical equipment. He has presided over 2 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 projects supported by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, and 3 key projects of the State Key Laboratory Open Fund. The calculation model of equivalent ice thickness for online monitoring of overhead lines developed by him has been successfully applied in the ice-covering monitoring and early-warning system of transmission lines of China Southern Power Grid for ten years. He has published 70 papers in SCI/EI journals and 15 authorized invention patents. He was awarded the Second Prize of Guangdong Scientific and Technological Progress, the Second Prize of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement Award, the Third Prize of China Electric Power Science and Technology Award, the Outstanding Paper Award of China Journal of Electrical Engineering and High Voltage Technology, and the High Contribution Authors and Author of the Year Award of 2022 of Wiley China Open Science. He is the General Secretary of the 2019 ICEMPE International Conference.

Call for Papers Timeline / 征稿时间

  • Submission of Full Paper: March 20th, 2025
    投稿截止日: 2025年3月20日 

  • Notification Deadline: March 30th, 2025
    通知书发送: 2025年3月30日 

  • Registration Deadline: April 10th, 2025
    注册截止日期: 2025年4月10日