May.
2020 PhD in Interdisciplinary
Engineering (Honors) – Khalifa University, Madsar
Institute, UAE. GPA:
4.0/4.0
Thesis: Provision of Power System Flexibility for Higher Penetration
of Renewable Energy in the Power System.
Dec.
2015 M.Sc. in Electrical
Engineering (Honors) - Khalifa
University, the Petroleum Institute, UAE. GPA:
3.72/4.0
Thesis: PID Controller Optimization for Multiple Inputs Using
Integral Performance Index Criteria.
Jun.
2010 B.Sc. in Electrical
Engineering (Honors) - Khalifa
University, The Petroleum Institute, UAE. GPA: 3.71/4.0
Graduation Project: Solar Power Enhanced Electrical Wheelchair.
Full Tuition Support from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
M. I. Alizadeh, B. Mohandes, et. al. “A Tractable Sequential Linear Programming-based Approach to Coordinate TSO and DSO Operations”, submitted to IEEE Transactions of Power Systems. Under Review
B. Mohandes, et. al. “Enhancing the
Efficiency of Flexibility Provision in Current TSO-DSO Coordination
Mechanisms”, submitted to Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks. Incorporating
Comments (R1)
M. Wahbah, B. Mohandes, et. al.
“Unbiased cross-validation kernel density estimation for wind and PV
probabilistic modelling”, in Energy Conversion and Management, 266,
115811, doi:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115811
K. Antoniadou-Plytaria, et. al, "Scenario-based Stochastic Optimization for Energy and Flexibility Dispatch of a Microgrid," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2022.3175418.
H. Beder, B. Mohandes, et. al., "A New Communication-Free Dual Setting Protection Coordination of Microgrid," in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2020.3041753.
B. Mohandes, M. S. El Moursi, N. Hatziargyriou and S.
El Khatib, "Incentive based Demand Response Program for Power System
Flexibility Enhancement," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2020.3042847.
B. Mohandes, et. al, "Optimal Design
of an Islanded Microgrid With Load Shifting Mechanism
Between Electrical and Thermal Energy Storage Systems," in IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 2642-2657, July 2020
B. Mohandes, et. al,, "Renewable Energy
Management System: Optimum Design and Hourly Dispatch," in IEEE
Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1615-1628, July
2021
B. Mohandes, M. S. E. Moursi, N.
Hatziargyriou, and S. E. Khatib, “A review of power
system flexibility with high penetration of renewables,” IEEE Transactions
on Power Systems, vol. 34, pp. 3140–3155, July 2019.
B. Mohandes, Y. L. Abdelmagid, and I. Boiko, “Development
of PSS tuning rules using multi-objective optimization,” International
Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 100, pp. 449 – 462,
2018
B. Mohandes, I. Boiko and Y. Abdel-Magid, "Control System
Loop-Shaping as a Mathematical Optimization Problem: An Ensemble of
Models," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 137185-137197, 2020,
B. Mohandes.,
El-Chaar, L., Lamont, L., “Application Study of 500W Photovoltaic (PV) System
in the UAE,” Applied Solar Energy Journal, Vol. 45, n. 4, pp.
242-247, December, 2009.
B. Mohandes, et.
al, “Advancing cyber–physical sustainability through integrated analysis of
smart power systems: A case study on electric vehicles”, I.J. of Critical
Infrastructure Protection, Volume 23, 2018, Pages 33-48,
Al Shereiqi, A, B. Mohandes, et. al, “Co-optimisation
of wind farm micro-siting and cabling layouts”. IET Renew. Power Gener.
2021; 15: 1848– 1860.
B.
Mohandes, M. S. El Moursi and S. El Khatib, "A
New Index of Power System Flexibility: Response Delay (
Usman, M., Mohandes, B., et. al, “Scalable uncertainty aware ancillary services procurement tool for active distribution systems”, 27th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution - CIRED 2023, Rome (Italy). 12-15 June 2023. In: CIRED 2023: Conference proceedings, e-ISBN: 978-1-83953-855-1
B. Mohandes, et. al, "AI-Based Estimation of Available Flexibility at Individual House Level," 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Soc. Gen. Meet. (PESGM), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10252702.
B. Mohandes, “MATPOWER/MOST User Manual: User-Defined Variables, Constraints, And Cost Terms”.
2020 -
2024 Postdoctoral Associate, Luxembourg Institute of Science and
Technology (LIST), Luxembourg:
2020 – 2023: FLEXIGRID
project
§ Development of python-based
electricity market-simulator “SMAART: Stroum-Maart”
§ Leading deliverable 3.4: Quantification of flexibility at distribution level
§
Collaborating
in deliverable 3.2: Design of self-regulating local markets for flexibility
2022 – 2024: TESTIFY project
Assist in proposal writing
2016
- 2020 Graduate Research Assistant: Electrical
Power Group, Khalifa University, Masdar Institute
Investigated utilization of DR and
inverter-based renewables for providing dynamic VAR support to the power
system, eliminating the need for FACTS devices.
Designed a smart DR contract to
empower current demand response (DR) models in the power system.
Provide technical support for
Masdar’s Research Center in King-Abdullah City of Atomic and Renewable Energy
Project -
Saudi Arabia.
2016
- 2020 Teaching Assistant: Khalifa
University - Masdar Institute & The Petroleum Institute
2009 – 2010 Undergraduate Research Assistant: Electrical Eng.
Dept. Khalifa University, Petroleum Institute
Study of Meteorological conditions
effect on thin-film PVs performance (Copper-Indium-Selenide).
2010 -
2016 Electrical Engineer, Abu Dhabi Polymers Industries (Borouge)
Part of Borealis group and ADNOC group
Technical Group Function,
Ruwais production plant.
- Non-intrusive Online Cable Testing Project for all
Borouge-2 plant 33KV cables.
- Feasibility study, Front End Engineering Design and
Supervision during EPC Phase for the following projects:
§ Construction of new ethane storage sphere at Borouge-3
plant site
§ Construction of containers yard for low density
polyethylene at Borouge-3
§ Improving acid dosing system in ethylene unit at Borouge-1
§ Revamping and expansion of single site catalyst at
polyethylene units of Borouge-2 and Borouge-3
§ Installation of impressed-current
cathodic protection for the repair of Borouge-2 failed seawater basin
§ Relocation of six HV motors plus site facilities for the
repair of Borouge-2 failed seawater basin
§ Procurement and installation of a thyristor
controlled heater for Borouge ethane handling
unit at export jetty
§ Procurement and installation of new vapor return arm at Borouge export jetty
§ Replacement of obsolete control cabinet for
Active-Magnetic-Bearing (by SKF) for 7MW Compressor.
- Site engineer at Borouge major
turnaround 2012/2013. Provide technical support and supervision of execution
in:
§ Extension of bus bar for Borouge
new colored grid compounding project
§ Installation of a new switchgear cubicle and new control
relays in distributed-control-system’s cabinets and HV & LV cable joints
for Borouge catalyst expansion project.
- Review of electrical design plans and material approval
requests for two office buildings at Borouge site.
Scope includes lighting fixtures, power fixtures, cabling work and
uninterruptible power supply system:
§ Conversion of Existing Admin Building to New Technical
Group building; project cost ≈ 20M AED
§ Borouge New Training Center: project cost ≈ 55M AED
- Attaché to Technical Compliance department
§ Acquiring concepts of HAZOP, HAZID, HSEIA, QRA, COMAH and
HSECES procedure.
§ Production of performance standards for HSECES systems
- Review of Borouge standards
documents and electrical safety procedures
- Execute bad actor analysis study for all site’s electrical
equipment for a 2 years period
- Production of new specifications guideline document on
Earthing, equipotential bonding and lightning
protection
- Technical study and construction support for several
small-budget projects (cost < 81,000 USD)
- Investigation & production of technical reports for
failures and warranty claims of different equipment
Jun-Aug
2009 Electrical
Engineering Intern, Abu Dhabi Gas Industries
Dec 2018 TRANSCO - CIGRE Day Invited speaker. Power flexibility with high
penetration of renewables
Feb 2019 Power Energy Summit Dubai UAE 2019, Invited speaker under young researcher
category: new
flexibility index
for demand response units
Ongoing Collaborator on MATPOWER-MOST Project:
Contributions include: Three bug reports, including a proposed fix
for one bug, and four new features
Ongoing Reviewer for
IEEE Transactions on Power systems, Smart Grids, Sustainable Energy, Energy
Conversion, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters
Dec 2020 Outstanding Reviewer award by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
April 2019 Invited
Judge for UAE-skills competition. Artificial
Intelligence & Machine Learning Category
Nov.
2013 Functional Safety Management
for TÜV-SÜD Certification
Safety
Instrumented Systems (SIS) and HAZOP. Passed the
certification test at first attempt.
Apr. 2012 Electric
Wiring Regulations Certification By Regulation and Supervision
Bureau-UAE
Nov.
2011 Pearl Sustainability
Buildings Rating System of Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council
Summer
2019 MIT-Science
Review Nomination for young innovators under 35. Nominated by Dr. M. El Moursi
Spring
2017 Shortlisted
for Masdar Institute & Massachusetts Institute of Technology Exchange
Program
Dec 2015 Masdar
Institute Research Fellowship Grant for PhD students
June
2010 Partial
tuition support scholarship by Petroleum Institute for part-time Master’s students
May 2010 Renewable Energy Competition UAE
University - shortlisted for second round of evaluation
May 2009 Winning
Team at UAE-IEEE Competition: Design Of Simplex
Free-Space Optical Transceiver
Spring
2009 Outstanding Junior Student Award for Electrical Engineering
Department - Petroleum Institute
August
2005 Recipient
of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Full Scholarship for Undergraduate Students
Programming Languages
Python including Sellinium, Tensorflow,
PyTorch, and Pillow.
MATLAB including: deep
learning, statistics and machine learning, parallel computing, distributed
computing and optimization
Julia including JuMP
General Algebraic Modeling Software (GAMS)
Proficient in HPC utilization for various
schedulers: SGE, LSF and PBS. Basic knowledge of powershell and shell for HPC operation.
Administrative
Tools LaTeX,
Adobe Photoshop, Autocad Autodesk and Microsoft
Office
Technical
Design Packages PS-CAD,
ETAP
Other RT-Lab for operation of real time data simulation platform: OPAL-RT
Spoken Languages Luxembourgish:
B1.1 English: C1/C2
(IELTS Test)
French: A2.1 German:
A2.1
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