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 of four 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.
• ENG2029 Introduction to AC Electrical Machine and Drives.
• EEE3025 Electronics - Design & Applications.
• EEE8156 Technology Review Project.
• Electrical Power and Control Project / EEE8148 / PhD / MSc
• MSc teaching (Power Electronics - Design & Implementations) EEE8012 / EEE3003. 

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).
• EEE8075: Electrical Power and Control Project.   
• EEE8097: Individual Project
• EEE8093 Individual Project.
• EEE8084: Individual Project.
• EEE8148: Electrical Power and Control Project.  

PhD Supervision / Teaching

• Five PhD students.
• EEE8148: Electrical Power and Control Project.

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.
• EEE2010 Electrical Engineering II.
• SFY0012 Electrical and Electronic Engineering O.
• EEE8113 Stage IV Group Design Project.
• ENG2029Introduction 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)

• 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)

  • 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.