Background

Background

Dr Salaheddine graduated from Bright Star University of Technology, Libya, with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering in 1995, specializing in Automatic Control. He then studied for an MSc in Automation and Control, Newcastle University, UK in 2004, followed by a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2011 from the same university. He joined the Electrical Power research group, School of Engineering, Newcastle University in September 2013.

Previous industrial experience:

• Five years industry experience with Nissan, Renault and Radford.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• MSc Postgraduate Supervision: EEE8097: Individual Project, EEE8093: individual Projectand EEE8084: Individual Project

• Co-supervisor of four PhD students
• UG teaching (Electrical Engineering l) EEE1006 / EEE1007 (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Marine Technology and Mechanical Engineering).

As a project supervisor has steered 140 postgraduate students to MSc graduation so far in their areas of, power electrical converters, distributed generation systems, photovoltaic systems and automation & control.

Research Interests & Area of expertise:

• Nature-inspired optimization algorithms.
•  battery of electric vehicles modelling/management and control.
•  control of electric drives.
•  system identification (parameter estimation) of power electronic systems.
•  electric power generation.
•  condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of electrical machines.
•  power electronic converters.
•  adaptive control of power electronic systems.
•  stand-alone and grid-connected PV systems.

Previous Positions 

• TF / MSc project supervisor (Newcastle University) 2016 - present
• RA / MSc project supervisor (Newcastle University) 2013 - 2016.

• Assistant Lecturer (Al Jabal Al Gharbi University) 1997 - 2001

Memberships:

• Member of the Electrical Power research group https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/research/eee/power/

Languages:

• Arabic
• English

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Research

Salaheddine is a member of the Electrical Power research group and his profile can be viewed on Google Scholar

Research Interests & Area of expertise:

Nature-inspired optimization algorithms, battery of electric vehicles modelling/management and control, control of electric drives, system identification (parameter estimation) of power electronic systems, electric power generation, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of electrical machines, power electronic converters, adaptive control of power electronic systems, stand-alone / grid-connected PV systems, system simulation and modelling using Matlab/Simulink.

Teaching

MSc Postgraduate Supervision

• EEE8097: Individual Project

• EEE8084: Individual Project

• EEE8093: Individual Project 

PhD Supervision

• Co-supervisor of four PhD students

Undergraduate Teaching

• EEE1006 / EEE1007 (Electrical Engineering I) EEE1006 / EEE1007 (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Marine Technology and Mechanical Engineering).

Publications

• Kadandani N, Ethni S, Dahidah M, Khalfalla H. Modelling, Design and Control of Cascaded H-bridge Single Phase Rectifier. In: The 10th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2019, Sousse, Tunisia: IEEE.
• Kadandani N, Dahidah M, Ethni S. On Extending the Overloading Capability of Modular Multilevel Converter. In: 13th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IEEE PEDS 2019). 2019, Toulouse - France: IEEE. Submitted.
• Zhang C, Zhang W, Ethni S, Dahidah M, Pickert V, Khalfalla H. Online Condition Monitoring of Sub-module Capacitors in MMC Enabled by Reduced Switching Frequency Sorting Scheme. In: The 10th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2019, Sousse, Tunisia: IEEE.
• Khalfalla H, Ethni S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. Resonance Frequency Detection Technique in Grid-connected Inverter Systems Based on Double-order Digitalized Filter. In: 10th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2019, Sousse, Tunisia: IEEE.
• Kadandani N, Dahidah M, Ethni S, Yu J. Solid State Transformer: An Overview of Circuit Configurations and Applications. In: 15th IET International Conference on AC and DC Power Transmission. 2019, Coventry, UK: IEEE.
• Khalfalla H, Ethni S, Al-Greer M, Pickert V. Adaptive current control based on combination of statistical signal processing and Partial swarm optimization for single phase PV grid connected inverter. In: power systems / Springer. 2018. Submitted.
• Khalfalla H, Ethni S, Shiref M, Al-Greer M, Pickert V, Armstrong M. Grid Impedance Estimation for Single Phase PV Grid Tide Inverter Based on Statistical Signal Processing Techniques. In: 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2018, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
• Ethni S, Smith A, Khalfalla H, Shiref M. Open Circuit Stator Winding Fault Detection of Induction Machines from Transient Data Using Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms. In: 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2018, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
• Lei Li, Elgendy M, Wade N, Ethni S, Hasanien H. Power sharing between parallel inverters in microgrid by improved droop control. In: 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2018, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
• Khalfalla H, Ethni S, Al-Greer M, Pickert V, Armstrong M, Phan V. An Adaptive Proportional Resonant Controller for Single Phase PV Grid Connected Inverter Based on Band-Pass Filter Technique. In: 11th IEEE International Conference on Compatibility, Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG). 2017, Cadiz, Spain: IEEE.
• Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah M, Atkinson D, Ethni S. Control Strategies for Capacitor Voltage Balancing in Modular Multilevel Converters. In: 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2016, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
• Ethni S, Gadoue S, Zahawi B. Inter-turn Short Circuit Stator Fault Identification for Induction Machines using Computational Intelligence Algorithms. In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology. 2015, Seville, Spain: IEEE.
• Ethni S, Gadoue S, Zahawi B. Induction machine Winding Faults Identification using Bacterial Foraging Optimization technique. In: 7th IET international conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD). 2014, Manchester, UK: IET.
• Ethni SA, Zahawi B, Giaouris D, Acarnley PP. Comparison of Particle Swarm and Simulated Annealing Algorithms for Induction Motor Fault Identification. In: 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics. 2009, Cardiff, Wales: IEEE.
• Ethny SA, Acarnley PP, Zahawi B, Giaouris D. Induction machine fault identification using particle swarm algorithms. In: International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, 2006 (PEDES '06). 2006, New Delhi, India: IEEE.