
Adel El-ShahatPurdue University West Lafayette | Purdue · School of Engineering Technology
Adel El-Shahat
Doctor of Philosophy
Assistant Professor, Energy Program, School of Engineering Technology, Polytechnic Institue, Purdue University.
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3D printing, using fused deposition modeling (FDM) has become a staple in the prototyping process because it allows engineers and designers to manufacture parts within a matter of hours instead of days. FDM printing works by melting and extruding plastic filament through a heated nozzle to build a 3D object layer by layer. However, due to the natur...
With recent advances in wide-area measurement systems (WAMS), wide-area damping controllers (WADCs) based on remote signals can effectively damp inter-area oscillations. However, these signals are inherently subjected to communication time-delay which may adversely affect the damping of inter area oscillations. The purpose of this paper is to prese...
In this paper, a new and effective meta-heuristic method named corona-virus search optimizer (CVSO) is proposed inspired based on the movement and search of the corona-virus among different societies, prevalence, and death of individuals. The CVSO has local and global search suitable balance due to the use of evolutionary strategies as well as appr...
For high-voltage (symmetric and non-symmetric) transmission networks, detecting simultaneous faults utilizing a single-end-based scheme is complex. In this regard, this paper suggests novel schemes for detecting simultaneous faults. The proposed schemes comprise two different stages: fault detection and identification and fault classification. The...
To address the growing problems around the world in climate change and global warming, our dependence on non-renewable energy sources such as gas, oil, and coal must stop. Our reliance on a non-renewable power grid for electricity at home and work must also be curtailed. Solutions have been proposed, one of which is the utilization of solar systems...
Because of the current increase in energy requirement, reduction in fossil fuels, and global warming, as well as pollution, a suitable and promising alternative to the non-renewable energy sources is proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Hence, the efficiency of the renewable energy source can be increased by extracting the precise values for each o...
Series-compensated transmission lines (SCTLs) are increasingly preferred for transmitting bulk amounts of electricity generated from the present-day large-scale wind farm to the utility grid due to several technical and economic benefits. However, when a fault occurs in such a wind farm-integrated SCTL, the impedance across the metal oxide varistor...
This article comprehensively reviews recent Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, technology, and issues related to charging station identification. A literature study on the above key areas shows an increasing consideration of EVs over the past decade. Further, the recommendations for user-friendly selection of the Charging Station (CS) a...
Changes in climatic circumstances, as well as intermittency, which has a significant impact on the overall energy system output from renewable energy sources (RESs), require the development of control strategies for extracting the maximum power available from RESs. To accomplish this task, several techniques have been developed. An efficient maximu...
The feasibility and potential assessment (PA) of solar PV energy is one of the key factors in identifying the most promising areas for the installation of solar PV stations. It determines the useful energy generated in the given area. This paper assesses the solar energy distribution and PA in the North Shewa administration zone. Based on the data...
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) recommended that Egypt be converted to green energy, in addition to increasing the demand for annual energy consumption, which will lead to an increase in the use of renewable energy sources (RES) in Egypt. The Egyptian Ministry of Energy and Electricity plans to build RES (photovoltaic syst...
Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch (ORPD is thought of as a noncontinuous, nonlinear global optimization problem. Within the system's constraints, the ORPD manages to accomplish the reactive power flow. Due to its more intricate linkage of variables, the reactive power issue is more challenging to resolve than the optimum power flow issue. With the ex...
Integration of a grid with an under-developed remote hilly area faces various technical and geographical challenges. Thus, generation of power from renewable resources in off-grid conditions has become one of the most cost-effective and reliable solutions for such areas. The present research deals with the possible application of an integrated sola...
The increase in power demand, nonlinearity, complexity, varying structure, and other important causes has necessitated the implementation of artificial intelligent control methodologies for safe and acceptable operation of the electric power systems. Therefore, in this article, an improved two-degrees-of-freedom (2DOF-PID) control scheme is propose...
The design of AC filters must meet the criteria of harmonic distortion mitigation and re-active power support in various operating modes. The stringent reactive power-sharing requirements currently lead to sophisticated filter schemes with high component ratings. In this regard, triple-tuned filters (TTFs) have good potential in harmonic mitigation...
The components outage of an energy system weakens its operation probability, which can affect the sizing of that system. An optimal sizing framework is presented for an autonomous hybrid photovoltaic/hydrokinetic/fuel cell (PV/HKT/FC) system with hydrogen storage to supply an annual load demand with forced outage rate (FOR) of the clean production...
With the rapid adoption of renewables within the conventional power grid, the need of real-time monitoring is inevitable. State estimation algorithms play a significant role in defining the current operating scenario of the grid. False data injection attack (FDIA) has posed a serious threat to such kind of estimation strategies as adopted by modern...
Electric vehicle (EV) markets have evolved. In this regard, rechargeable batteries such as lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries become critical in EV applications. However, the nonlinear features of Li-ion batteries make their performance over their lifetime, reliability, and control more difficult. In this regard, the battery management system (BMS) is...
DC microgrids have gained a lot of interest recently due to increasing dc loads such as electric vehicles and the penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs). However, DC microgrids face challenges concerning bus voltage fluctuations, which severely impact the system stability when subjected to uncertainties of load and RESs. This paper focuses...
Universal power converters (UPCs) have aroused significant attention in performing multiple operations in a single power converter. Furthermore, they contribute to economic operation and improved system performance. In this work, a new configuration of the universal power converter (UPC) was proposed by using a simple switching arrangement. It can...
A power system’s nonlinearity and complexity increase from time to time due to increases of power demand. Therefore, properly designed power system controlsare required. Without these, system instability will cause equipment failures, and possibly even cascading events and blackouts. To cope with this, intelligent controllers using soft computing a...
Wireless charging schemes aim to counter some drawbacks of electric vehicles’ wired charging, such as the fact that it does not encourage mobility, leads to safety issues regarding high voltage cables, power adapters high cost, and has more battery waste by companies. In this paper, a comparative study of wireless power transfer multiple coil geome...
According to the current directive, we must rely on green energy for sustainable mobility. One of the green transition's goals is to use renewable energy to charge electric vehicles (EVs). Solar energy is a form of renewable energy sources, and it is classified as being clean, available, and renewable because it is based on sunshine. Nowadays, the...
The quality of the photovoltaic (PV) cell model impacts many simulation studies for PV systems, such as maximum power point tracking and other assessments. Moreover, due to limited information found in the datasheets of the PV cells, several parameters of the model are unavailable. Thus, this paper introduces a novel approach using a hybrid Particl...
Brushless doubly fed reluctance generators (BDFRGs) are hopeful generators for using inside variable speed wind turbines (VSWTs), as these generators introduce a promising economical value because of their lower manufacturing and maintenance costs besides their higher reliability. For integrating WT generators, global networks codes require enablin...
In this manuscript, we propose a single-phase UPC (universal power compensator) system to extensively tackle power quality issues (voltage and current) with an equal VAR (volt-ampere reactive) sharing approach between the series and shunt APF (active power filter) of a UPC system. The equal VAR sharing feature facilitates the series and shunt APF i...
Meeting the generation schedule in a wind farm is a major issue. This work utilized battery energy storage systems (BESS) integrated wind farms (WF) to supply energy to the power grid at a pre-determined generation schedule, which was set previously based on the meteorological forecast and BESS characteristics. This study proposed the integration o...
Most of the fault location methods in high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines usemethods which require signals from both ends. It will be difficult to estimate fault location if the signal recorded is not correct due to communication problems.Hence a robust method is required which can locate fault with minimum error. In this work, fa...
Increased deployment of variable renewable energy (VRE) has posed significant challenges to ensure reliable power system operations. As VRE penetration increases beyond 80%, the power system will require long duration energy storage and flexibility. Detailed uncertainty analysis, identifying challenges, and opportunities to provide sufficient flexi...
Unit commitment problem (UCP) is classified as a mixed-integer, large combinatorial, high-dimensional and nonlinear optimization problem. This paper suggests solving the UCP under deterministic and stochastic load demand using a hybrid technique that includes the modified particle swarm optimization (MPSO) along with equilibrium optimizer (EO), ter...
Dynamic wireless power systems are an effective way to supply electric vehicles (EVs) with the required power while moving and to overcome the problems of low mileage and extensive charging times. This paper targets modeling and control for future dynamic wireless charging using magnetic resonance coupling because of the latter’s efficiency. We pre...
Today, generation and transmission expansion planning (G&TEP) to meet potential load growth is restricted by reliability constraints and the presence of uncertainties. This study proposes the reliability constrained planning method for integrated renewable energy sources and transmission expansion considering fault current limiter (FCL) placement a...
Due to the rapid advancement in power electronic devices in recent years, there is a fast growth of non-linear loads in distribution networks (DNs). These non-linear loads can cause harmonic pollution in the networks. The harmonic pollution is low, and the resonance problem is absent in distribution static synchronous compensators (D-STATCOM), whic...
In this paper, an optimal sizing and placement framework (OSPF) is performed for electric parking lots integrated with wind turbines in a 33-bus distribution network. The total objective function is defined as minimizing the total cost including the cost of grid power, cost of power losses, cost of charge and discharge of parking lots, cost of wind...
The impacts of the fast growth of renewable energy sources (RESs) and distribution static synchronous compensators (D-STATCOMs) on unbalanced radial distribution networks (URDNs) are analyzed with three-phase power flow algorithms (PFAs). As the URDNs are unbalanced, they can experience voltage unbalance (VU). This paper proposes a novel three-phas...
In this paper, the optimal dynamic scheduling of electric vehicles (EVs) in a parking lot (PL) is proposed to minimize the charging cost. In static scheduling, the PL operator can make the optimal scheduling if the demand, arrival, and departure time of EVs are known well in advance. If not, a static charging scheme is not feasible. Therefore, dyna...
A Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) is an efficient method to manage the load demand in distribution power systems. This paper proposes the utilization of the CVR method on Washington EMC’s power system and Georgia Transmission Corporation facilities. The utility’s peak power consumption is reduced to determine the figures of wattage and money s...
To address the growing problems around the world in climate change and global warming, our dependence on non-renewable and energy sources such as gas, oil, and coal must stop. Our reliance on a non-renewable power grid for electricity at home and work must also be curtailed. Solutions have been proposed, one of which is the utilization of solar sys...
Unlike the United States, Nigeria's installed overall electricity capacity is 12.8 GW, while the operational capacity is estimated to be 3.9 GW which is well below the current demand of 98 GW. This results in a consumer power demand shortfall of 94.1 GW across the country. As a result of this wide gap between demand and generation, only about 45% o...
The constant research to eliminate wires in our everyday lives has been going on for years now. When the telephone or the telegraph was first invented, wires were needed to transmit communication between parties. Now, wireless power transfer is very beneficial for society. Wireless power transfer is already being implemented in today’s world in som...
This paper proposes technical guidelines, modelling, and control of an ultra-high-speed-switched reluctance motor- generator for automotive turbo-charged assistance and energy recovery. Creation of an ideal model using electromagnetic finite element analysis and conducting a low cost/ low scale experiment is proposed. The first objective focuses on...
Recently direct current (DC) microgrids have drawn more consideration because of the expanding use of direct current (DC) energy sources, energy storages, and loads in power systems. Design and analysis of a standalone solar photovoltaic (PV) system with DC microgrid has been proposed to supply power for both DC and alternating current (AC) loads....
Little scale wind vitality frameworks, for example, “Small Scale Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines” (SSHAWT) give a spotless, imminent and practical alternative for vitality supply. Besides, this vitality utilization framework can likewise be used as one of the dependable power wellsprings of Microgrids. To outline productive breeze advancements, it re...
The bi-directionally coupled Lorenz systems are linked to the modeling of a coupled double loop thermosyphon system where the mass momentum and heat exchange are both considered. As the key parameters of the system, known as Rayleigh numbers, increase, the system of differential equations predicts typical flow dynamics in a thermosyphon from heat c...
This paper proposes novel approaches to create two converters for PV Nano grids and Smart homes applications which will empower the human future life. The first one can take a one input from PV panel and converts it into numerous outputs to supply different dc loads. The second one is a cascaded PV inverter to supply ac loads. As shown in
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Although the thoughts and practices of alternative energy have been around for many years, in recent years, the world has been increasingly looking towards it more intensely. Alternative energy can refer to forms of energy that do not increase humanity's carbon footprint. It can include things such as nuclear facilities, hydroelectric power, natura...
This article proposes new methods of modeling and simulation of photovoltaic and horizontal wind turbine systems. The photovoltaic and horizontal wind turbines are modeled by the use of actual data sheets listed in the lookup table model. Moreover, artificial neural network numerical technique is used to simulate and evaluate the designed systems....
The current study presents a modified sine cosine optimization (MSCO) algorithm for solving the non-smooth environmental/economic power dispatch problem. In the proposed MSCO algorithm, random search agents’ population is initialized in the search domain for simultaneous optimization of both the combined economic and environmental objectives. Added...
Distributed Generation (DG) sources have become an integral part of today’s decentralized power systems. However, current DG systems are mostly passive and do not provide intelligent information to help detect power quality issues. In this paper, a novel and intelligent event classification scheme is proposed to provide DG systems with real-time de...