Staff Profile

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 Project and EEE8084: Individual Project.
• Supervisor / MSc / PhD students.
• UG/Postgraduate Taught Programme Selector (Sept 2023 - present).
• UG teaching (Electrical Engineering l) EEE1006 / EEE1007 (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Marine Technology and Mechanical Engineering).
• EEE2010 Electrical Engineering II
• EEE8113 Stage IV Group Design Project
• SFY0012 Electrical and Electronic Engineering O (ML).
• SFY0020 Electricity and Magnetism (ML)
• ENG2029 Introduction to AC Electrical Machine and Drives.
• EEE3025 Electronics - Design & Applications.
• EEE8156 Technology Review Project.
• Electrical Power and Control Project / EEE8148 / PhD / MSc (ML).
• MSc teaching (Power Electronics - Design & Implementations) EEE8012 / EEE3003 (ML). 

As a project supervisor has steered more than 200 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 

• Lecturer (Newcastle University) 2019 - present
• Teaching Fellow / MSc project supervisor (Newcastle University) 2016 - 2019
• Research Associate / MSc project supervisor (Newcastle University) 2013 - 2016.
• Assistant Lecturer (Al Jabal Al Gharbi University) 1996 - 2002

Memberships:

• Member of the Electrical Power research group: Electrical Power research group

Languages:

• Arabic

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MSc Postgraduate Supervision / Teaching

• EEE8012 Power Electronics - Design & Implementations (MSc) / (ML).
• EEE8075: Electrical Power and Control Project (ML).   
• EEE8097: Individual Project
• EEE8093 Individual Project.
• EEE8084: Individual Project.
• EEE8148: Electrical Power and Control Project (ML).  

PhD Supervision / Teaching

• Six PhD students.
• EEE8148: Electrical Power and Control Project (ML).

Undergraduate Supervision / Teaching

• EEE1006 / EEE1007 (Electrical Engineering I) EEE1006 / EEE1007 (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Marine Technology and Mechanical Engineering).
• EEE8156 Technology Review Project.
• EEE3003 Introduction to the Basics of Modern Power Electronics (ML).
• EEE2010 Electrical Engineering II.
• SFY0012 Electrical and Electronic Engineering O (ML).
• SFY0020 Electricity and Magnetism (ML).
• EEE8113 Stage IV Group Design Project.
• EEE3094 Individual Project and Technical Report.
• EEE8111 Engineering Study Project.
• ENG2029 Introduction to AC Electrical Machine and Drives.
• EEE3025 Electronics - Design & Applications.
• EEE8114 Industrial Project.
• EEE3095-3096-3097 Individual Project and Dissertation (BEng).

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 and grid-connected PV systems.

PhD Supervision:

• Hamza Khalfallah (completed)
• Nasiru Kadandani (completed)
• Mohammed Alharbi (completed)
• Li Lei (completed)
• Yanwei Cai (June 2023 - present)
• Mohmaed Alsonisi (September 2023 - present)

Research Funding

•  2023 - 2026, Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Flexible Power Systems

Postgraduate Research Group / PhD project

• Project title: Grid forming control for inverter-dominated power grid. The infrastructure of future electricity grids is envisaged to be inverter-dominated with a high energy mix. The high penetration of renewable resources and low carbon technologies entail considerable stability challenges for the electricity grid. For instance, these resources are mostly interfaced with the grid through power electronics, leading to loss of inertia that is normally supported by the rotating mass of large generators. Grid forming converters enable the transition to an inverter-based infrastructure via regulating the system voltages and frequency through local decentralized control. This project aimed at unlocking the potential features on the already existing converters in the grid to deliver the grid forming functionalities and a means of additional services to the network. Network characterization study will be initially conducted to identify the requirement of the control strategies of the grid-forming, which will be developed and tested under different operating scenarios. The project will involve an extensive simulation and experimental studies to validate these algorithms.

• Articles

  • Alharbi MA, Marquez A, Dahidah MSA, Montero-Robina P, Ethni S, Pickert V, Leon J-I. Rotating Phase-Shedding for Interleaved DC-DC Converter-Based EVs Fast DC Chargers. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2023, 38(2), 1901-1909.
  • Alharbi MA, Dahidah MSA, Ali SA, Ethni S, Pickert V. Ripple-free Multiphase Interleaved Stacked Converter for High-power Applications. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2022, 37(12), 14770-14780.
  • Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. Review of Circulating Current Control Methods in Modular Multilevel Converter. Bayero Journal of Engineering and Technology 2021, 16(1), 62-75.
  • Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S, Muhammad M. Lifetime and Reliability Improvements in Modular Multilevel Converters Using Controlled Circulating Current. Journal of Power Electronics 2021, 21, 1611-1620.
  • Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. Design and Development of Modular Multilevel Converter for Solid State Transformer Application. Bayero Journal of Engineering and Technology 2021, 16(1), 31-41.
  • Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. . 2020.

• Book Chapter

  • 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. 2018.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Alsonisi M, M Elgendy, Yildirim B, Ethni S, Ahmeid M. DC-DC Bidirectional Converter for Battery Energy Storage System with Integrated Battery Management. In: IEEE International Conference And Exposition On Electric And Power Engineering (EPEi). 2025, Iasi, Romania: IEEE. In Preparation.
  • Kadandani N, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. An Overview of the Role of Solid State Transformer in Smart Grid. In: The 12th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC 2021). 2021, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
  • Kadandani N, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. An Overview of the Role of Solid State Transformer in Grid Connected Wind Farms. In: The 12th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2021, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
  • Alharbi M, Dahidah MSA, Ali S, Ethni S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. A Phase Shedding Control Technique for Ripple Minimisation for EV Fast DC Charging Applications. In: 23rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'21 ECCE Europe). 2021, Ghent, Belgium: IEEE.
  • Kadandani N, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S, Alharbi MA. Overloading Scenario in Solid State Transformer. In: The 11th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2020, Hammamet. Tunisia: IEEE.
  • Lei L, Elgendy M, Wade N, Ethni S. Combined Pre-Synchronization and Power Sharing Control for Microgrid Applications. In: 55th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2020, Turin, Italy: IEEE.
  • Alharbi M, Dahidah M, Ethni S, Ali S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. A Fast DC Charger for Electric Vehicles with Minimised Ripple through Phase-Shedding of Multiphase Interleaved Converters. In: The 11th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2020, IEEE. Submitted.
  • 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, 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.
  • Lei L, Elgendy M, Wade N, Ethni S. Power sharing between parallel inverters by using droop control with a secondary control loop. In: 10th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG). 2019, Xi'an, China: IEEE.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Alharbi M, Dahidah M, Ali S, Ethni S, Pickert V. Current Ripple Minimisation Based on Phase-Shedding of DC-DC Interleaved Converters for EV Charging System. In: IECON 2019 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 2019, Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.
  • Alharbi M, Dahidah MSA, Ali S, Ethni S, Pickert V. Current Ripple Minimisation Based on Phase-Shedding of DC-DC Interleaved Converters for EV Charging System. In: 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2019). 2019, Lisbon, Portugal: 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.