Abdulrahman S. M. Alqadami - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a significant role in transmission line inspection. This paper focuses on the inertial measurement unit (IMU) as a critical component to study impacts of electromagnetic interference. A case study is conducted by selecting 500 kV/25 kA 60Hz transmission lines as sources of strong electromagnetic fields and investigate their influences on an IMU unit a...Show More
The rapid advancement of electric vehicles (EVs) offers a significant reduction in carbon emissions by replacing fossil fuels with more sustainable energy sources. This paper studies wireless charging technology for EVs, focusing on high-frequency power losses. It presents an experimental investigation into the inductive power transfer (IPT) system’s efficiency under various pavement materials (sp...Show More
This paper investigates the challenges in designing and implementing silicon carbide (SiC) full-bridge inverters that operate at multi-MHz multi-kW, aiming at exciting high-power capacitive power transfer (CPT) systems. There are three contributions. First, this paper firstly reveals the drain-source current and voltage oscillations of a zero-voltage-switched-on (ZVS) full-bridge inverter caused b...Show More
This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of mechanical and solid-state circuit breakers, with a focus on their operational time intervals. The study begins by examining the characteristics and performance of both types of circuit breakers individually. Three different mechanical circuit breakers and a specific solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) are used and compared. The proposed S...Show More
This paper presents the effectiveness of a solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) structure aimed at protecting the main components of photovoltaic (PV) farm systems, as well as an investigation into the optimal placement of SSCBs within a PV system configuration. A demonstration for a microscale PV farm system, including a single PV panel, battery, the proposed SSCB, and loads, is introduced to evalu...Show More
Accurately modeling the behaviors of Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs is crucial for power electronics system analysis. However, conventional SiC MOSFET models often lack sufficient physical detail, failing to accurately depict the device's physical behavior. Surface-potential-based models provide a more granular physical schema, facilitating enhanced accuracy regarding devices’ characteristics. Yet,...Show More
Stability and reliability are crucial in DC power systems, where solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) offer significant advantages over traditional breakers. SSCBs protect DC systems from short circuit faults and enhance overall system stability. Additionally, because distinguishing between short-circuit and overload scenarios depends on system specifications, a modifiable algorithm is necessary t...Show More
DC microgrid systems are increasingly utilized in power systems, and the significance of solid-state circuit breakers (SSCB) is paramount due to the absence of zero-crossing current in DC systems. However, one of the concerns in a DC microgrid is proposing and implementing a new algorithm due to safety concerns and system stability. Properly coordinating a DC microgrid is one of these challenges. ...Show More
This paper presents design, evaluation, and testing of a 4kV/400A/1.6MW solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) with modular active voltage clamping and resonant current injection circuits for emerging medium-voltage direct-current (MVDC) power distribution systems. There are three major contributions in this paper. First, from total configuration point of view, the 4kV/400A/1.6MW SSCB prototype is bui...Show More
This paper presents a design and implementation of a high-power Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based multilevel H-bridge inverter to excite wireless charging coils for the wireless power transfer of electric vehicles (EVs). Compared to the traditional conductive charging, wireless charging technology offers a safer and more convenient way to charge EVs. Due to the increasing demand of fast charging, high-p...Show More
This letter presents a 10-kW wireless charging system for autonomous underwater vehicles, utilizing a split solenoid coupler to enhance axial misalignment tolerance. Comparative finite-element analysis with traditional solenoid structures indicates the split solenoid design's superiority in reducing inductance fluctuations, with a 22% reduction in coupling coefficient fluctuation and a 24.8% and 2...Show More
Inductive power transfer (IPT) technology has emerged as a promising wireless charging solution for electric vehicles. However, the application of IPT often overlooked the interaction between an IPT system and different pavement materials. When the transmitter coil is embedded inside a pavement material, the power loss is different due to the properties of different pavement materials (asphalt or ...Show More
Direct current (DC) power systems have been advancing renewable energies to cope with the worldwide effort in minimizing carbon footprints. However, dc systems face technical limitations that require protection from dc circuit breakers. This article deals with the techno-economic analysis of dc solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) by involving design, cost, and performance parameters. To clarify t...Show More
A novel solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) topology with two combined tripping schemes is proposed in this article: 1) fault current bypass (FCB) tripping and 2) soft turn-off tripping by transient commutation current injection (TCCI). There are four main contributions in this work: 1) flexible combined dual tripping schemes are realized by one single topology and 2) the traditional monotonous har...Show More
This article presents a diode-free metal-oxide-varistor (MOV) resistor-capacitor-varistor (RCV) snubber based solid-state circuit breaker. It prevents voltage overshoot and ensures a smooth turn-off voltage slew rate. Compared with a conventional MOV resistor-capacitor-diode (MOV-RCD) circuit, the MOV-RCV snubber adopts a low-voltage MOV (LMOV) to replace a high-power diode to reduce cost, and the...Show More
Direct current (dc) solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) present an ultrafast fault current isolation. In addition to modularity, they leverage the monitoring and control functions advantages. In dc power systems, SSCBs are coordinated as primary and back-up protection to implement selectivity and improve reliability. However, the low inertia of dc systems makes coordination a challenging practice...Show More
Inductive power transfer (IPT) technology has shown great potential in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) charging due to the removal of troublesome charging cables and no exposed metal plugs. However, the alternating magnetic field of the inductive charging system will induce extra eddy-current and dielectric loss in seawater due to plenty of ions and polar molecules of water. In this paper, an ...Show More
This letter presents the first ever trial of machine learning enabled cluster grouping of varistors for DC circuit breakers (DCCBs). It reveals that the manufacturing discrepancy of varistors is a main challenge in their parallel connection. The proposed cluster grouping concept is introduced to classify varistors according to the interruption characteristic, in which the K-means algorithm is adop...Show More
Inductive power transfer (IPT) for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) presents many advantages compared to conductive solutions that require the vessel to be recovered from water in each charging cycle. This article proposes a novel 360° folded spatial unipolar coil structure adapting to a cylinder AUV body shape, aiming at low leakage magnetic field and good rotational misalignment tolerance. ...Show More
Inductive power transfer (IPT) technology is becoming a convenient and promising charging solution for underwater vehicles and robots. The conventional resonant SS IPT system potentially has overcurrent and overpower issues at weak magnetic coupling conditions. This paper proposed an SS IPT system with a detuned transmitter circuit, which limits the transmitting current and system power at weak an...Show More
Multi-rotor drones (MR-drones) are increasingly used for power line inspection due to their accuracy and ease of use. However, they can be affected by the strong electric fields around transmission power lines, disrupting their positioning measurements and calculations and causing them to lose control. This paper presents an experimental study of a 10 kV modular transformer as a test setup to inve...Show More
This paper presents a fast solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) for medium voltage dc (MVDC) applications. It makes use full benefits of high-power thyristors in main branch. Applying full-controlled switches in the main and auxiliary branches obtains a complete commutation in the thyristors, achieves a fast fault current interruption, enhances reliability, and provides scalability. The SSCB needs n...Show More
This digest studies the effects of the magnetic field on multi-rotor drones (MR-drones) used for alternating current (AC) transmission line inspections. Although MR-drones are used for fast and accurate monitoring of the powerlines, there are many difficulties to deliver this task. In this digest, a DJI MA VIC Pro2 MR-drone is employed to study the effects of changing magnetic fields on the drone'...Show More
Direct current (dc) circuit breakers (DCCBs) play a key role in dc power system protection. This paper aims to discuss two practical challenges of DCCBs technology in terms of standards and potential markets. Apart from DCCBs technical limitations, e.g., low inertia of dc power systems and high cost of solid-state switches, lack of well-documented standards slows down the fast growth of DCCBs. In ...Show More
This article presents a compact inductive power transfer (IPT) based wireless energy pick-up system (WEPUS) coupled gate-drive for medium-voltage power devices in modular direct current (dc) solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs). There are two major contributions. First, an LCL-S compensated IPT system with constant voltage outputs is applied as auxiliary power supply to power ten submodules in SSC...Show More