Towards Compact Grid Interactive EV Charging

Overview

Abstract

After a quick overview of the ECE Graduate Seminar logistics, I will share the progression of our team’s work in the field of compact integrated on-board EV charging. Power converter architectures evolved over the years from solutions based on mechanical re-arrangements, to systems based on special multiphase electric machines. The latter is still the considered the state-of-the-art approach. A new family of power converter architectures has been developed by our team to overcome the challenges of previous approaches. The proposed architectures simplify electric machine integration, provide grid interactive functionality, and are compact with respect to existing architectures. 

Brief Biography

Shehab Ahmed received his BSc degree from Alexandria University in 1999; his MSc and Phd degrees from Texas A&M University in 2000 and 2007 respectively. He was a Senior Engineer at Schlumberger Technology Corporation, TX from 2001 to 2007. In the Fall of 2007, he joined Texas A&M University at Qatar as an Assistant Professor and progressed to Full professor rank in 2018. In the Fall of 2018, he joined KAUST, where he is currently Professor and Chair of the ECE program. He holds a secondary affiliation as Professor in ERPE and is a member of the Ali Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center (ANPERC). His research interests are in subsurface mechatronics, power electronics and electromechanical energy conversion.