Design and Control of Active Power Filters towards the Decarbonisation of Smart Grid Networks

Authors

Shafi Khadem Senior Researcher and Chair of Embedded and Distributed Generation Systems (EDGE) Research Group, IERC, Dublin Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland. Shafi Khadem received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Applied Physics and Electronics from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1998 and 2000 respectively and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland in 2013. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher and leading the Embedded and Distributed Generation systems (EDGE) research group in IERC. He is research active in area of micro and intelligent grid network with special focus on grid stability and power quality, embedded & distributed generation systems integration, and smart energy communities. He has more than 18 years of research experience in universities, international organizations and industries in multi-disciplinary teams. He has received several prizes/grants from different institutions including HEA (IE), ICTP (IT), EU Erasmus (UK), DIT (IE), IRCSET (IE), IEEE (USA) etc. He has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals from IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis and in conference proceedings. Malabika Basu Senior Lecturer, Electrical Engineering, Technological University Dublin, Ireland. Malabika Basu received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, India, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2003, all in electrical engineering. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Lecturer with Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. From 2003 to 2006, she was an Arnold F. Graves Postdoctoral Fellow with Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, and worked as a Lecturer since 2006. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Technological University Dublin. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical publications in various international journals and conference proceedings. Her current research interests include grid integration of renewable energy sources, power quality and conditioners, photovoltaics and wind energy conversion, HVDC systems, smart grid, and microgrids. Currently she also serves as one of the associate editors of IEEE Access for Power and Energy Section. Hasan Komurcugil Professor, Computer Engineering Department, EMU, Famagusta, Turkey. Hasan Komurcugil received the B.Eng., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Famagusta, North Cyprus, Via Mersin 10, Turkey, in 1989, 1991, and 1998, respectively. Currently, he is full-time Professor with the Computer Engineering Department, EMU. His research interests include power electronics and innovative control methods for power converters. He was a corresponding Guest Associate Editor for Emerging Electric Machines and Drives for Smart Energy Conversion in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION, Guest Editor for Identification and Observation Informatics for Energy Generation, Conversion. Currently, he is Guest Editor for Applications and Recent Advances on Sliding Mode Control and Its Applications in Modern Industrial Systems in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS. Also, he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS.