
Dr Calum MacKinnon
R & D Engineer
Power Networks Demonstration Centre
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Area of Expertise
My specialisms are in condition monitoring approaches for high voltage direct current (HVDC) assets to support baseload demand by interconnection, and more recently include control technologies and software design.
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Publications
- People, Skills and Jobs in Power System Decarbonisation : Working Collaboratively to Maximise Impact
- Brown Eric, MacKinnon Calum, Bell Keith
- (2024)
- Evolution of electricity distribution control room data streams - UK case study
- Morris Euan A, Telford Rory, Mackinnon Calum, Jennett Kyle
- 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) 11th International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (Asia) 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), pp. 696-700 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/isgtasia54193.2022.10003592
- A concept solution architecture for electrical distribution control centres
- Mackinnon Calum, Hamilton Matthew, Jennett Kyle, Morris Euan, Telford Rory
- 11th International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (Asia) (2022)
- A capacitor bank simulation model
- Mackinnon Calum J, Stewart Brian G
- 2020 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) 38th IEEE Electrical Insualtion Conference 2020, pp. 494-497 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC47619.2020.9158697
- Thermal profiles of high-voltage capacitor units
- Mackinnon Calum J, Stewart Brian G
- Annual Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (2019) (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP47102.2019.9009725
- Regions of electrical stress in high voltage capacitor units
- Mackinnon Calum, Stewart Brian G
- COMSOL Conference 2019 (2019)
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Projects
- Future Energy Skills Summit
- MacKinnon, Calum (Research Co-investigator) Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Brown, Eric (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Pauline (Academic)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 27-Jan-2024
- Cable Health Assessment
- MacKinnon, Calum (Co-investigator) Corr, Edward Joseph (Co-investigator)
- This project aims to further the work of TAM-011 in developing a facility for asset owners to estimate cables' health and remaining useful life, in anticipation of changing operational burdens these inaccessible assets are expected to see.
- 29-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Control Room Analytics
- MacKinnon, Calum (Researcher) Telford, Rory (Researcher) Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Jennett, Kyle (Administrator) Blair, Jennifer (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
- Future Control Room
- MacKinnon, Calum (Co-investigator) Morris, Euan (Co-investigator) Jennett, Kyle (Principal Investigator) Telford, Rory (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | MacKinnon, Calum
- Stewart, Brian (Principal Investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) MacKinnon, Calum (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 14-Jan-2022
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Contact
Dr
Calum
MacKinnon
R & D Engineer
Power Networks Demonstration Centre
Email: calum.mackinnon@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7439