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Dr Salaheddine Ethni

Lecturer

Background

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, 缅北禁地, 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, 缅北禁地 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)
  • SFY0021 Group Project
  • ENG2029 Introduction to AC Electrical Machine and Drives.
  • EEE3025 Electronics - Design & Applications.
  • EEE8156 Technology Review Project.
  • EEE3094 Individual Project and Technical Report.
  • EEE8114 Stage 4 Industrial 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 (缅北禁地) 2019 - present
  • Teaching Fellow / MSc project supervisor (缅北禁地) 2016 - 2019
  • Research Associate / MSc project supervisor (缅北禁地) 2013 - 2016.
  • Assistant Lecturer (Al Jabal Al Gharbi University) 1996 - 2002

Memberships:

Languages:

  • Arabic

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Teaching


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).
  • SFY0021 Group Project.
  • 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).
  • EEE3094 Individual Project and Technical Report.
  • EEE8114 Stage 4 Industrial Project


Research

Salaheddine is a member of the Electrical Power research group and his profile can be viewed on 




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


  •  2024 - 2027, Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Flexible Power Systems , (Funding Source: Innovate UK)


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.


Publications

  • Articles

    • Alharbi MA, Marquez A, Dahidah MSA, Montero-Robina P, Ethni S, Pickert V, Leon J-I. . IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2023, 38(2), 1901-1909.
    • Alharbi MA, Dahidah MSA, Ali SA, Ethni S, Pickert V. . IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2022, 37(12), 14770-14780.
    • Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. . Bayero Journal of Engineering and Technology 2021, 16(1), 62-75.
    • Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S, Muhammad M. . Journal of Power Electronics 2021, 21, 1611-1620.
    • Kadandani NB, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. . Bayero Journal of Engineering and Technology 2021, 16(1), 31-41.

  • 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. . In: The 12th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC 2021). 2021, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
    • Kadandani N, Dahidah MSA, Ethni S. . In: The 12th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2021, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
    • Alharbi M, Dahidah MSA, Ali S, Ethni S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. . 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. . In: The 11th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2020, Hammamet. Tunisia: IEEE.
    • Lei L, Elgendy M, Wade N, Ethni S. . In: 55th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2020, Turin, Italy: IEEE.
    • Alharbi M, Dahidah M, Ethni S, Ali S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. . In: The 11th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2020, IEEE. Submitted.
    • Kadandani N, Dahidah M, Ethni S, Yu J. . In: 15th IET International Conference on AC and DC Power Transmission. 2019, Coventry, UK: IEEE.
    • Khalfalla H, Ethni S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. . In: 10th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2019, Sousse, Tunisia: IEEE.
    • Lei L, Elgendy M, Wade N, Ethni S. . 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. . In: The 10th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2019, Sousse, Tunisia: IEEE.
    • Kadandani N, Dahidah M, Ethni S. . 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. . In: The 10th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2019, Sousse, Tunisia: IEEE.
    • Alharbi M, Dahidah M, Ali S, Ethni S, Pickert V. . 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. . 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. . In: 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2018, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
    • Ethni S, Smith A, Khalfalla H, Shiref M. . 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. . 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. . 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. . In: 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2016, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
    • Ethni S, Gadoue S, Zahawi B. . In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology. 2015, Seville, Spain: IEEE.
    • Ethni S, Gadoue S, Zahawi B. . In: 7th IET international conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD). 2014, Manchester, UK: IET.
    • Ethni SA, Zahawi B, Giaouris D, Acarnley PP. . In: 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics. 2009, Cardiff, Wales: IEEE.
    • Ethny SA, Acarnley PP, Zahawi B, Giaouris D. . In: International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, 2006 (PEDES '06). 2006, New Delhi, India: IEEE.