Associate ProfessorMd Enamul Haque

 Renewable Energy Systems (Wind, Solar PV), Microrgid system, Smart grid, Hydrogen Fuel cell

o Control of grid forming inverter for wind energy system
o Impacts & issues of grid integration of large-scale wind energy system to the smart grid & their remedial measures
o Stability Enhancement of wind power plants using Grid forming battery storage and supercapacitor technologies
o Control of grid-forming solar PV system with maximum power point tracking
o Impacts & issues of grid integration of PV system into the grid
o Advanced control for grid-connected/standalone photovoltaic System.
o Power electronic applications in hybrid power system, microgrid and smart grid
o Power management and control of dc Microgrid, ac Microgrid and hybrid dc/ac Microgrid system with hybrid wind-solar-fuel cell-energy storage system
o Control and power management of hybrid wind, solar PV, Fuel cell and battery energy storage systems


 Impacts of Renewables and Electric Vehicle on Power Grid and Remedial Measures
o Impact Analysis of Renewables and Electric Vehicle on power grid
o Control of Grid forming inverter to provide ancillary services to power grid
o Application of Energy storage (battery/supercapacitor) to enhance FCAS support and grid stability
o Coordinated control and energy management for solar PV and Electric vehicle for optimal charging and grid management
o Enabling transition from “passive DER” to “active DER” and managing the effects of connected passive DERs
o Distributed energy sources (DER) and EV hosting capacity enhancement

 Design and Advanced Control of Power Electronic converters for Renewable Energy system (Wind, Solar PV, Fuel cell)
o Control and Design of grid forming inverter for renewables, EV charging system, fuel cell and microrgid systems
o Advanced control of solar PV system, DSP/microcontroller based control of solar power converter with maximum power tracking (MPPT)
o Impacts of wind and solar PV penetration on the power grid and their mitigation:
o Power quality and harmonic issues of wind and solar PV system
o system inertia & frequency stabilisation, voltage stability
o STATCOM application with supercapacitor
o Multilevel power electronic converters for wind energy system
o Model predictive Control of variable speed wind turbine and solar PV system
o Design of power converter for wind energy system and implementation using microcontrollers and dSpace DSP system
o Design and control of power electronic system for Fuel cell system with hydrogen storage
 Energy Storage System:
o Design of power electronic converters for energy storage system
o Battery energy storage, parameter estimation, battery state of charge (SOC) estimation, battery state of health (SOH) monitoring, Battery standard development
o Application of supercapacitor energy storage in renewable energy applications
o Power management, control and design of large scale energy storage
o Energy storage system for wind integration and power system peak shaving
o Hybrid super-capacitor/flywheels/battery energy storage system for fault ride through capability enhancement of renewable based energy system and wind farm dispatching

 Application of Smart Solid State Transformer(SST) in Microgrid and Renewable energy system
o Design of power electronic converters for solid state transformer
o Design and Control of SST based multilevel power converter for microgrid and Renewable energy applications
o Design and Control of SST based multilevel power converter for energy storage integration


 Plug in Hybrid Vehicle/Electric Vehicle and motor drive:
o Impacts of plug in hybrid vehicle on power grid.
o DSP based control of variable speed motor drives with interior permanent magnet synchronous motor for electric vehicle.
o Power Management of a Battery-Ultra-capacitor Based Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle.
o Power electronics and variable speed motor drives for EV and industrial drives applications
o Future charging infrastructure for EV
o Explore ability of EVs/chargers to play a role in supporting grid

 Power grid security, Cyber Security in smart grid
o Cyber physical modelling and control for resilient power grid
o Development of a real time test bed for cyber security assessment and mitigation in power grid
o Bushfire mitigation