Browsing by Author "Gastli, Adel"
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Automatic Voltage Regulation for Substation in Smart Grid
Taoube, Hussein (2016 , Master Thesis)The recent developments of smart grids and their Advanced Metering Infrastructures have brought new possibilities of enhancing the system performance and quality of power delivery to diverse consumers. For instance, with ... -
A battery health monitoring method using machine learning: A data-driven approach
Sheikh, Shehzar Shahzad; Anjum, Mahnoor; Khan, Muhammad Abdullah; Hassan, Syed Ali; Khalid, Hassan Abdullah; Gastli, Adel; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar... more authors ... less authors ( MDPI , 2020 , Article)Batteries are combinations of electrochemical cells that generate electricity to power electrical devices. Batteries are continuously converting chemical energy to electrical energy, and require appropriate maintenance to ... -
Development Of Multi-Phase Variable Frequency Drives For The Oil & Gas Industry
Shehada, Izzeddin (2019 , Master Thesis)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plants rely heavily on LNG compressors exceeding 100 MW power range. These compressors are mainly driven by gas turbines and high power helper motors operated via Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs). ... -
Differential Flatness-Based Performance Enhancement of a Vector Controlled VSC with an LCL-Filter for Weak Grids
Khalid, Hassan Abdullah; Cecati, Carlo; Al-Emadi, Nasser Ahmed; Gastli, Adel; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar ( IEEE , 2021 , Article)In this paper, a novel single-loop flatness-based controller (FBC) is proposed to control the grid-side current in a shunt converter connected to a weak grid through an LCL-filter. After its mathematical description, the ... -
Enhanced Deadbeat Control Approach for Grid-Tied Multilevel Flying Capacitors Inverter
Trabelsi, Mohamed; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel; Abu-Rub, Haitham ( IEEE , 2022 , Article)This paper proposes an enhanced Deadbeat Controller (DBC) for a grid-tied Flying Capacitors Inverter (FCI). The proposed DBC guarantees the balancing of the capacitors' voltages while injecting current to the grid with ... -
Hardware in Loop (HIL) Testing of Energy Management Controller for Electric Vehicle integrated Microgrid
Lakshminarayanan, Venkateswaran; Selvaraj, Goutham; Rajashekara, Kaushik; Ben-Brahim, Lazar; Gastli, Adel ( IEEE , 2019 , Conference Paper)In this paper, an energy management (EM) controller capable of operating in real-time and its verification in Controller Hardware in Loop (CHIL) is proposed. A coordinated multi-agent system-based optimization scheme is ... -
Integrated Multi-Criteria Model for Long-Term Placement of Electric Vehicle Chargers
Abdullah, Heba M.; Gastli, Adel; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Mohammed, Semira O. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , 2022 , Article)Based on the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets, governments all over the world are speeding up the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). However, one of the key challenges in designing the novel EV system is to ... -
Matlab/Simulink implementation & simulation of islanding detection using passive methods
Ashour, Marwa; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel; Al-Emadi, Nasser; Fayyad, Yara ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)The extensive use of Distributed Generators in Electrical and power systems made it a must to explore its functionality and the issues related to their connection to the grid. One of the main issues is unintentional ... -
A novel control scheme for three-phase seven-level packed U-Cell based DSTATCOM
Hassan Abdullah, Khalid; Al-Emadi, Nasser Ahmed; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel; Cecati, Carlo ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)With the advent of SiC devices, the packed U-Cell converter has become a promising topology among the multilevel converters for medium voltage DSTATCOM application. It utilizes fewer components while achieving the maximum ... -
A novel model predictive control with an integrated SOC and floating DC-link voltage balancing for 3-phase 7-level PUC converter-based MV BESS
Hassan Abdullah, Khalid; Al-Emadi, Nasser Ahmed; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel; Cecati, Carlo ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Compared to conventional multilevel topologies, the Packed U-Cell multilevel topology utilizes the minimum number of components and provides both maximum voltage levels and high reliability. When used in a battery energy ... -
Optimal Placement of Phasor Measurement Units for Power Systems Using Genetic Algorithm
Mahgoub, Mohamed Osama (2017 , Master Thesis)Power grids require monitoring to operate with high efficiency while minimizing the chances of having a failure. However, current monitoring scheme which consists of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), ... -
Planning and Optimizing Electric-Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Through System Dynamics
Abdullah, Heba M.; Gastli, Adel; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Mohammed, Semira O. ( IEEE , 2022 , Article)One of the key solutions to address the issue of energy efficiency and sustainable mobility is to integrate plug-in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and photovoltaic (PV) systems. The research proposes a comprehensive ... -
Reinforcement Learning Based EV Charging Management Systems-A Review
Abdullah, Heba M.; Gastli, Adel; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar ( IEEE , 2021 , Article)To mitigate global warming and energy shortage, integration of renewable energy generation sources, energy storage systems, and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) have been introduced in recent years. The application of ... -
Review of medium voltage high power electric drives
Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel; Yoshino, Teruo; Yokoyama, Tomoki; Kawamura, Atsuo ( IEEJ , 2019 , Article)The field of electric drives in general, and medium-voltage high-power drives in particular, has recently experienced considerable progress. Numerous interesting developments have been reported in the literature. Various ... -
A Soft Switching Single Stage Isolated Three Phase Bidirectional PFC Converter for Electric Vehicles charging
Singh, Anant K.; Prasanna, U. R.; Rathore, Vinay; Rajashekara, Kaushik; Ben-Brahim, Lazar; Gastli, Adel... more authors ... less authors ( IEEE , 2019 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a bidirectional three phase single stage ac-dc converter for applications like Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers. AC side of the proposed converter consists of current fed half bridge converter for each ... -
Transformerless Microinverter with Low Leakage Current Circulation and Low Input Capacitance Requirement for PV Applications
Khan, Ahmad Mirdad (2017 , Master Thesis)The inevitable depletion of limited fossil fuels combined with their harmful footprint on the environment led to a global pursuit for alternative energy sources that are clean and inexhaustible. Renewable energies such as ...