PGE/REWE 2015

Speakers

Bernhard Fruth

Bernhard Fruth
Managing Director
Quartzteq GMBH


Dr. Bernhard Fruth studied Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing. 1981) and made his PhD in High Voltage Technologies (Dr.-Ing. 1986) at the University of Technology, Aachen, Germany. From 1987 – 1992, he was Manager of the High Voltage Systems Group at ABB Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland, where he worked on gas insulated switchgear, SF6 breaker development, solid and gaseous insulating materials and diagnostics for high voltage equipment. In 1988 Dr. Fruth developed the first commercial partial discharge pattern recorder. He has entrepreneurial activities in the field of rotating machine diagnostics/partial discharge testing and monitoring systems and was Managing Director and CTO of PD Tech Power Engineering AG, Switzerland. He has been with Quartzelec since 2011 formally as the Chief Executive Officer of Maser Quartzelec Services Sdn Bhd, based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and now as Managing Director of Quartzteq GMBH. He has published more than 60 papers and contributions to international conferences and has been a member of the IEEE and IEC working groups. He is a member of ELECTROSUISSE and Swiss Engineering Society.

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