Don’t miss out - gain the technical skills and knowledge needed for implementing wind energy in Brazil
According to the 10-year expansion plan 2029, Brazil has ambitious plans to expand offshore wind energy. In the Brazilian Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2020, EPE estimates that a potential of 700 GW exists. However, there are a number of challenges related to implementing this amount of wind energy. One of the largest challenges relates to the technical training of staff. With this workshop, therefore, we offer a course that provides people in Brazil with the basic knowledge and skills required to be successful in the wind energy industry. If you’re serious about getting wind energy implemented in Brazil, you can’t afford to miss out!
Programme
This course takes place online, four hours a day from Monday, March 20th, 2023 until Friday, March 24th, 2023. It covers the topics shown in the graphic below. Each day has a different focus. You can sign up for individual days or the whole course. We recommend attending the whole course in order to get an overview of all the important topics! Each day is split into two different topic areas, and each topic area is split into a one-hour lecture and a one-hour workshop including exercises or discussions. The final part on the Friday includes a panel discussion about the challenges of implementing wind energy in Brazil.
Note: the course will take place in English!
Registration
Price:
For the full course: €100 for professionals and €50 for students
For individual days: €25 for professionals and €15 for students
For your money, you get access to:
Link to the live course sessions on Microsoft Teams
Recordings of selected lectures on Youtube afterwards
An exclusive WhatsApp discussion group with selected lecturers
Selected data and code used in the workshops afterwards
If you are short of money, you can request a discount in the form below!
Get to know the speakers
Name: Heloisa Guedes Mendonça
Role: Industrial PhD at Vestas / DTU (Denmark)
Lecture topic: Composite materials
Master Degree in Naval Engineering – University of Sao Paulo, PhD ongoing in Wind Energy (DTU Wind and Energy Systems). Heloisa worked for the past 6 years in the wind energy sector focused on blades modelling and design. Her research is dedicated to characterization of blades manufacturing defects through a digital twin framework.
Name: Marina Cavalli
Role: Load and Control Engineer at Vestas (Portugal)
Lecture topic: Loads and blade design
Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering – from ITA, Working in the wind industry for the past 4 years. Experience in loads and control, aerodynamics and turbine tests.
Name: Ingrid Pacheco Silveira
Role: Offshore Wind Independent Consultant (Brazil)
Lecture topic: Overview of Brazilian wind energy market
B.S in Energy Engineering and B.S. in Science and Technology from Federal University of ABC and Master's Candidate in Ocean Engineering at COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Professional and academic experience with offshore wind energy. Experience in site selection, market analyses and risk assessment for offshore wind projects under development in Brazil.
Name: Rafael Valotta Rodrigues
Role: Research at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Wind Energy and Energy Systems
Lecture topic: Layout and wakes
Wind Energy Systems Division, more specifically at the Systems Engineering and Optimization Section. Focuses on multi-fidelity wind farm flow physics, design, and optimization.
Name: Yoshiaki Sakagami
Role: Professor at Federal Institute of Santa Catarina-IFSC (Brazil)
Lecture topic: Wind resource assessment, Operational analysis
B.S. in Meteorology at Univ. of São Paulo, PhD and MSc. in Mechanical Engineering at Univ. of Santa Catarina. Long experience with met-mast instrumentation at Campbell Scientific of Brazil and collaborations in R&D Projects with UFSC, IFSC, ENGIE and CGN-Atlantic in resource assessment and turbine performance in the last 11 years.
Name: Carlos Eduardo de Souza
Role: Assistant Professor at Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil.
Lecture topic: Challenges in condition monitoring of offshore wind turbines.
Short Bio: Doctor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from ITA (BR) in the field of nonlinear aeroelasticity of composite structures. Experience in the Brazilian aerospace industry and research institutes, in the fields of aerodynamics, stress analysis, structural dynamics and composite modeling and optimization. Carlos today is assistant professor at Federal University of Santa Maria, doing research on aeroelastic modeling of wind turbines, signal processing and condition monitoring.
Name: Victor Mendes
Role: Professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais UFMG (Brazil)
Lecture topic: Energy conversion systems, grid integration
BEE degree in control and automation from UFMG (2008), MEE and PhD in electrical engineering from UFMG in 2009 and 2013. Part of thesis at Dresden University of Technology (Germany) in 2010. Postdoc at LAPLACE Laboratory, Toulouse, France between 2020 and 2021.
Name: Wilson Netto
Role: Project manager at Vestas (Denmark)
Lecture topic: Composite materials
Master Degree in Chemical Engineering – Environmental Technology from Aarhus University, Working in the wind industry for the past 3 years. Experience in blade design and processes, field repairs and continuous improvement.
Name: Sarah Barber
Head of Wind Energy Innovation Division at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
Lecture topic: Wind energy basics
PhD and M.Eng. in aerodynamics. 15 years in wind energy R&D in Switzerland and Germany. Lecturer in wind energy at several universities. Qualified business coach. Founder and president of the Swiss Wind Energy R&D Network.
