Gerro J. PrinslooStellenbosch University | SUN · Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
Gerro J. Prinsloo
PhD (Engineering), Masters Engineering (Mechatronic)
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Introduction
Mechanical, Electronic & Sustainability engineer with interest in technology development & project management to transform digital business, health, industry as enablers to smart cities & 4th industrial revolution. Experience in research & design using computational mechanics, digital design tools, scientific modeling simulation, data science methods, model-based design thinking, additive manufacturing, embedded electronic devices, optics, digital sensors networking, robotics control, industrial internet of things & devices. Expertise in systems engineering, intelligent control automation, agent-based expert systems, decision sciences, informatics, HMI data visualization, artificial intelligence, multi-objective optimization mathematics, geospatial & transactive secure autonomous systems
Additional affiliations
January 2016 - present
IEEE Foundation
Position
- Volunteer
January 2015 - present
January 2014 - December 2017
Education
February 2014 - November 2017
January 2012 - December 2013
Field of study
- Thermodynamics, Mechatronics, Digital Design and Control Automation
January 2007 - November 2011
Publications
Publications (48)
Prinsloo, G.J. 2018. Synthesis of an off-grid solar thermal cogeneration and intelligent smartgrid control system for rural applications. PhD dissertation, Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town.
Link: http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/103804
. Access to intelligent, reliable, affordable, and modern energy services has...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T, Mammoli, A.A. 2018. Synthesis of an Intelligent Rural Village Microgrid Control Strategy Based on Smartgrid Multi-Agent Modelling and Transactive Energy Management Principles, Energy 147, p263-278 .
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544218300677 . Also see link: http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/100...
Prinsloo, G.J., Mammoli, A.A., Dobson, R.T. 2017 Customer domain supply and load coordination: A case for smart villages and transactive control in rural off-grid microgrids. Energy 135, 430-441.
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Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T., Mammoli, A.A. 2016. Model based design of a novel Stirling solar micro-cogeneration system with performance and fuel transition analysis for rural African village locations. Elsevier Journal Solar Energy 133, p 315-330 doi:10.1016/j.solener.2016.04.014
This paper aims at providing a hybrid solar off-grid starter kit a...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T. (2015). Solar Tracking. Stellenbosch: SolarBooks. ISBN 978-0-620-61576-1, p 1-542. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.2748.3201
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In isolated rural village electrification, renewable energy resources are often the only alternative to provide sustainable energy to economically deprived isolated rural communities. In support of current alternative energy system developments, engineers use smart village based computer model design approaches. This includes desktop computer simul...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T., Mammoli, A.A. Smart Village Load Planning Simulations in Support of Digital Energy Management for Off-grid Remote Rural Community Microgrids. Current Alternative Energy, Special Issue on Standalone Renewable Energy Systems for Remote Area Power Supply, 2018(2), pp 1-29 .
http://www.eurekaselect.com/157676 .
In isola...
One of the biggest challenges facing us today is finding a sustainable solution to provide clean and affordable energy to the millions of Africans who live without it. Over 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa did not have access to electricity in 2015 and while more than 60% of them live in rural areas, the rate of residential rural electrific...
Prinsloo, F.C. and Prinsloo, G.J. 2017. Development of a custom designed GIS-based environmental decision support tool to address water energy nexus issues in floating solar environmental impact assessment. International Association of Impac Assesment SA, IAIAsa 2017, Goudini SPA, Cape Town, August 2017.
Water-based floating solar technology insta...
Uddin, K., Prinsloo, G.J. Marcoa, J., Jennings, P. 2017. Techno-Economic Analysis of the Viability of Solar Home Systems Using Lithium-ion Batteries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of 2017 International Conference on Alternative Energy in Developing Countries and Emerging Economies, Energy Procedia 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.
One of the biggest ch...
Prinsloo, G.J. 2016. Smart Microgrid Control: Coordination optimization, Transactive energy systems and intelligent control automation for isolated and dynamic microgrids in power and cogenerative smartgrids. SolarBooks, Stellenbosch, South Africa. ISBN: 978-0-620-68665-8
Book and eBook on smart energy systems, smart microgrid control automation,...
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G.J. Prinsloo, A.A. Mammoli, R.T. Dobson. Discrete cogeneration optimization with storage capacity decision support for dynamic hybrid solar combined heat and power systems in isolated rural villages. Elsevier Journal Energy 133(1), pp 1051–1064. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.10.026
Pre-packaged cogeneration systems are popular as lead supply in dist...
G.J. Prinsloo, R.T. Dobson, A. Brent. Scoping exercise to determine load profile archetype reference shapes for solar co-generation models in isolated off-grid rural African villages. Journal of Energy for Southern Africa 23(7), pp 11–27.
Discrete cogeneration optimization with storage capacity decision support for dynamic hybrid solar combined h...
Prinsloo, G.J., Mammoli, A.A, Dobson, R.T. 2016. Participatory smartgrid control and transactive energy management in community shared solar cogeneration systems for isolated rural villages. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference GHTC 2016, Seattle, USA, pp 1-8.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7857305/ Global humanitarian initiatives s...
Prinsloo, G.J, Mammoli, A.A., Dobson, R.T., 2016. Transactive Energy Management: A different approach to energy management in rural off-grid microgrids. IEEE - Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT), Global Humanitarian Technology Conference GHTC 2016.
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T., Mammoli, A.A. 2016. Solar micro-Combined Heat and Power System with Intelligent Microgrid Control for Smart Rural Villages. SEPA Solar Power International 2016 (SPI) Conference, Las Vegas, USA.
Smart village automation systems consist of control devices with embedded computing and digital communications tools that ena...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T., Brent, A.C. 2016. Scoping exercise to determine load profile archetype reference shapes for solar co-generation models in isolated off-grid rural African villages. Journal of Energy for Southern Africa, Vol.27, No.3. Cape Town.
http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1021-447X2016000300002
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For many off-grid rural communities, renewable energy resources may be the only viable option for household and village energy supply and electrification. This is especially true for many rural regions in southern Africa, where the population spread is characterised by small villages. These rural villages rely heavily on firewood, charcoal, biochar...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T., Brent, A.C., Mammoli, A.A. (2016). Modelling and control synthesis of a micro-combined heat and power interface for a concentrating solar power system in off-grid rural power applications. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1734, Issue 1. p 130016-1 to 130016-9. doi: 10.1063/1.4949226
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Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T., Brent, A.C., Mammoli, A.A. (2016). Modelling and control synthesis of a micro-combined heat and power interface for a concentrating solar power system in off-grid rural power applications. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1734, Issue 1. p 130016-1 to 130016-9. doi: 10.1063/1.4949226
Concentrating solar power co-gene...
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Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T. (2015). Solar Tracking: High precision solar position algorithms, programs, software and source-code for computing the solar vector, solar coordinates & sun angles in Microprocessor, PLC, Arduino, PIC and PC-based sun tracking devices or dynamic sun following hardware. Stellenbosch: SolarBooks. ISBN 978-0-620-61576-1, p...
Prinsloo, G.J. "Hardware Sun Tracking Systems and Digital Sun Position Hardware Solar Tracker Controllers". In Solar Tracking. Prinsloo GJ, Dobson RT. 1st ed. Stellenbosch: SolarBooks, 2016. ISBN 978-0-620-61576-1. doi: 10.13140/2.1.2748.3201
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Prinsloo, G.J. "Hardware Sun Tracking Systems and Digital Sun Position Hardware Solar Tracker Controllers". In Solar Tracking. Prinsloo GJ, Dobson RT. 1st ed. Stellenbosch: SolarBooks, 2016. ISBN 978-0-620-61576-1. doi: 10.13140/2.1.2748.3201
Hardware Sun Tracking Systems and Digital Sun Position Hardware Solar Tracker Controllers
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This study is concerned with the modelling and synthesis of an off-grid solar thermal trigeneration and intelligent smartgrid control system for applications in rural Africa, South America, India and China. This off-grid concentrated solar micro-Combined Cooling Heat and Power (mCCHP) system is capable of delivering a wide spectrum of energy (elect...
A project has been initiated in South Africa to design, model, build, and evaluate an easy to install solar fueled combined heat and power (micro-CHP) system to supply off-grid rural villages and eco-estate communities. This study describes the design of a model that offers a combined 3 kW peak electrical, 12 kW peak thermal, stand-alone solar powe...
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Research towards computer modelling and synthesis of an intelligent control system for a novel off-grid concentrated solar micro-Combined Heat and Power (mCHP) system, system typically be capable of fulfilling a wide spectrum of energy requirements (electrical, heat or cooling) in a configuration capable of supplying a group of one to four househol...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T. 2014. Smartgrid topologies in autonomous CSP power generation with microgrid distribution for rural Africa. Conference: Solar Power International SPI2014, Las Vegas. Volume: 1. DOI: 10.13140/2.1.4059.0405
This research deals with aspects in the simulation and optimization of stand-alone hybrid RES renewable energy syst...
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Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T. 2014. Evaluation of a Dynamic Sun Tracking Platform for Autonomous Solar Heat and Power Generation in Rural Areas. Conference: SuNEC2014 International Solar Conference. Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Concentrated solar systems for micro combined solar heat and electrical power (mCHP) uses concentrated solar radiation as the s...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T. 2015. Combined solar heat and power with microgrid storage and layered smartgrid control towards supplying off-grid rural villages. Energy Science & Engineering, Volume 3, Issue 2. p 135–144. DOI: 10.1002/ese3.57.
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Prinsloo, G.J. (2014). Automatic positioner and control system for a motorized parabolic solar reflector. M.Sc Engineering Thesis, Stellenbosch University. p 1-142. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1130.3522
Advanced energy concepts in sustainable energy systems include renewables, energy conversion, demand response, energy storage, dispatch efficiency, advan...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T. and Schreve, K. 2014. Mechatronic Platform with 12m2 Solar Thermal Concentrator for Rural Power Generation in Africa. Energy Procedia 49(1). p 1470-1480. DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.156
Electrical power generation through Stirling type engines make use of concentrated solar radiation as the source of high-temperature...
Prinsloo, G.J., Dobson, R.T. and Schreve, K. 2014. Carbon Footprint Optimization as PLC Control Strategy in Solar Power System Automation. Energy Procedia 49(1). p 2180–2190. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.231
Control and automation forms an integral part in the design of solar power conversion systems for stand-alone village installations as well a...
The solar energy resource can be tapped into for rural social upliftment, should a suitable and reliable solar power generation system be available. With limited electrical grid infrastructure around rural African villages, a stand-alone parabolic Stirling renewable energy CSP/CPV system has been identified as a potential solution for deep rural po...
A self tracking solar harvesting means includes an optical reflector to harvest solar energy, and uses solar thermal and thermodynamic principles to convert solar energy into electrical energy. In one configuration the system includes a Stirling engine power conversion unit, but it can also include power generation through a micro turbine or an org...
Prinsloo, G.J. 2011. Inlet Air Flow Meter for an Internal Combustion Engine. Bachelor Engineering Thesis, Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. doi 10.13140/2.1.3010.4649.
This project focus on the design an Inlet Air Flow Meter for accurate measurement of mass flow rate of atmospheric air into an engine during engine dyna...
This article describes the design, development and testing a fully digital flow measurement system for a proposed new precision air flow meter which will be used to compare performances of various Bio-fuel formulations in pulsating internal combustion engines. This digital datalogging system incorporates calibration and digital compensation calcula...
This article describes the design, development and testing a Laminar Flow Element (LFE) measurement system for a proposed new precision air flow meter. The flow meter will be used in future to compare performances of various Bio-fuel formulations in pulsating internal combustion engines. This design incorporates substrates developed for automotive...
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