Full name
Work address
CURRICULUM VITAE
Ghanim Alesha PUTRUS BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MIEE
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences,
Northumbria University,
Ellison Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, U.K.
Tel: 0191 227 3107
Present occupation Reader in electrical power engineering
Director of training programmes for Industry
Teaching
I have over 17 years of teaching experience that covers both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Electrical Power, machines and basic areas of Electrical Engineering. Administrative responsibilities and course development were part of my duties.
Main duties and achievements include:
Teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in addition to supervising numerous final year projects. I taught modules in the general area of electrical engineering, power systems, machines and power electronics. I also taught electrical power for graduates from industry on short courses. Size of classes varied from 2 to 90 students.
Currently, I am the leader of the MSc Electrical Power Engineering programme.
Completed four residential sessions of a course in “Academic Practice” at UMIST (1995) in addition to attending numerous Staff Development events.
External examiner for:
Applied Technology programme, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology,
Staffordshire University, 2006 - to date.
Electronic systems programme, School of Product & Engineering Design, University of Wales
Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), 2001– 2004.
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka;
1997- 2005 (Exam moderation for the electrical power theme).
Stamford, Sedaya and KDU colleges, Malaysia, 1998- to date (moderation and staff development).
Research and academic/professional standing
I have over 22 years of research experience in Electrical Power Engineering, particularly in the applications of power electronics in power systems. I have 63 publications, including 11 Journal,
12 invited and 37 referred conference publications in addition to one patent and two theses (see list of publications on page 4). My research experience covers theoretical and experimental work together with the development and use of software for system design and analysis. I have conducted several consultancies for industry and I am involved in IET professional activities.
My main research interests cover Power Electronics applications in power systems (FACTS and custom power technology), power quality, embedded generation and active control of power distribution networks.
Main duties and achievements include:
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Leading a DTI funded project (jointly with Econnect Ltd) to develop an “Embedded Controller for Active Management of LV Distribution Networks” with high level of embedded generation.
2005-2007. Total project funding = £250,000.
Lead a three-year research project to develop a “Hybrid Fault Current Limiting and Interrupting
Device” suitable for distribution networks, 1999-2002. Total project funding £77,000 provided by Northern Electric Distribution Ltd. The project resulted in the development of an experimental prototype, several publications and a patent.
Involved in a European project to develop “The road map to the machinery directive” which included nine universities funded by the European Commission, Socrates programme, 2000-
2002.
Carried out several consultancies for industry, 1995-2006.
Invited papers, presentations, lectures and plenary address at national and international events organized by professional organizations.
Formed the Power and Control Research group and initiated links with companies and organizations in the northeast as well as nationally and internationally.
Completed a “programme of training for research degree supervisors”, Northumbria University,
1996/1997.
Obtain a small research grant fund from Northumbria University, 1997.
Supervised 9 PhD students and 6 PG dissertations (seven PhD students have successfully completed and two are at the final stage towards completion). The research projects were sponsored/supported by Northumbria University, Northern Electric Distribution Limited,
Reyrolle Protection, NGC NaREC and EPSRC.
Examined 7 PhD/MPhil thesis/transfers and several MSc dissertations.
Member of the School Research Committee, 2000- 2005.
Involved in IET professional activities at both regional and national levels, including:
IEE Northumbria branch; Chairman; 2004/2005
IET Professional Network (Power Trading and control); Technical Advisor; 2000 – to date.
IEE North Eastern Centre; Member of the power section committee; 1997 – 2000.
IEE Professional Group P7 (Transmission and distribution plant); Member; 1999 – 2000
Organized and co-chaired an IEE Colloquium on “Power Quality: Monitoring and Solutions”.
November 2000.
Member of the organising committee for the IEE power section 2000 symposium. 1999/2000
Member of the steering committee for the International Universities Power Engineering
Conference, 2001 – to date.
Chairman and organiser of the 41 st
International Universities Power Engineering Conference
UPEC2006.
Member of the steering committee for the International Conference on Industrial and
Information Systems (ICIIS), 2006-to date.
Review papers for IET proceedings and IEEE publications.
Reviewer for Asia EPSR (Electric Power Systems Research) Journal.
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Administration
I have been involved in several departmental and school committees. Currently, I am the
Director of training programmes for industry (short courses) and leader of the MSc Electrical
Power Engineering programme. In the former role, I ran and/or managed over 60 programmes that generated over £2.0 M income to the School.
I developed a new “power, machines and power electronics” laboratory, including the setup and associated equipment. I also obtained a grant to upgrade it to include New and Renewable
Energy equipment.
I was the departmental Library representative for 4 years.
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Patent
Putrus G.A., Ahmed M.M.R., Ran L., Xiao L., Penlington R. and May S., “A Hybrid Fault
Current Limiting and Interrupting Device” Patent no GB2375902, November 2004.
Journal papers
1 Al-Tikriti M.N., Jabouri M.Y., Putrus G.A. and Al-Fakhri W.A., "Digitally controlled power-factor correction system", AMSE periodicals on Modelling, Simulation, and
Control, Vol.9, No.1, 1987, pp. 9-19.
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Al-Shaljy A., Putrus G.A. and Kamal A., "The use of microcomputer for spectral analysis with the Fast Fourier Transform", Journal of Space and Astronomy Research, Vol.4, No.1,
Feb.1987, pp.73-102.
Wijayakulasooriya J.V., Putrus G.A. and Minns P.D., “Electric Power Quality
Disturbance Classification Using Self-Adapting Artificial Neural Networks”, IEE
Proceedings, Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 149, No. 1, January 2002, pp 98-101.
4 Ran L., Holdsworth L. and Putrus G.A., “Dynamic Selective Harmonic Elimination of a
Three-Level Inverter Used for Static VAr Compensation”, IEE Proceedings,
Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 149, No. 1, January 2002, pp 83-89.
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Liao Y., Ran L., Putrus G.A. and Smith K.S.“ Evaluation of the Effects of Rotor
Harmonics in a Doubly-fed Induction Generator with Harmonic Induced Speed Ripple”,
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 2003, pp. 508-515.
Ahmed M.M.R. and Putrus G.A., Ran L. and Xiao L., "Harmonic Analysis and
Improvement of a New Solid-State Fault Current Limiter" IEEE Transactions on
Industry Applications, Vol. 40, No. 4, July/August 2004, pp. 1012-1019.
Wijayakulasooriya J.V., Putrus G.A. and Ng C.H., “Fast Non-Recursive Extraction of
Individual Harmonics Using Artificial Neural Networks”, IEE Proceedings, Generation,
Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 152, No. 4, July 2005, pp 539-543.
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Ng C. H., Busawon K, Putrus G.A. and Ran L, “Fast Individual Harmonic Extraction
Technique” IEE Proceedings, Generation, Transmission and Distribution Vol. 152, No.
4, July 2005, pp 556-562.
Mahmud S., Abdullah M.J. and Putrus G.A. “Increase in Upturn Power Dissipation of
Surge Suppressors Due to Highly Defective Nanostructure of Zinc Oxide”, Journal of
Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic and Nano-Metal Chemistry, Vol.
36 No. 01, 2006, pp. 59-64.
10 Mahmud S., Abdullah M.J., Putrus G.A., Chong J. and Mohamad A.K, “Nanostructure of ZnO Fabricated via French Process and its Correlation to Electrical Properties of
Semiconducting Varistors” Journal of Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-
Organic and Nano-Metal Chemistry, Vol. 36, No. 02, 2006, pp155-159.
11 Ahmed M.M.R. and Putrus G.A., Ran L. “Development of a Prototype Solid-State Fault
Current Limiting and Interrupting Device (FCLID) for Low Voltage Distribution
Networks”, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2006.
Invited paper/presentation/lecture/plenary address
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Cooper C.B., Ekanayake J.B., Jenkins N. and Putrus G.A., "Modelling plant for flexible ac transmission systems", IEE Colloquium on FACTS-the key to increased utilisation of a power system, London, Jan. 1994, Digest No. 1994/005, pp. 3/1-3.
Putrus G.A., Jenkins N. and Cooper C.B., “A static fault current limiting and interrupting device”, IEE Colloquium on Fault current limiters - A look at tomorrow, London, 8
June 1995, Digest No. 1995/026, pp.5/1-6.
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Minns P.D., Putrus G.A. and Wijayakulasooriya J.V., “Intelligent power quality monitoring system”, IEE Colloquium on “Power Quality: Monitoring and Solutions”,
London, November 2000.
Putrus G.A., Wong W., Jenkinson D., “Implementing the CD Machine Directive in the
UK”, invited plenary address in Valencia Global 2002 International Conference, April
2002.
Putrus G.A., “Fault Current Limiters” invited lecture at Chongqing University, China,
October 2002.
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Putrus G.A., “Implications, with Particular Emphasis on Distribution Networks, of the
Widespread Application of Power Electronic Systems” Eleventh International IEE
Residential Course on High Voltage Engineering & Testing, 13-18 July 2003,
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Putrus G.A. and Evans G., “Distributed Generation Challenges Ahead” Chairman’s address, IEE Northumbria Branch, October 2004.
Putrus G.A., Wijayakulasooriya J.V., Ng C.H. and Minns P., “Disturbance extraction for power quality monitoring and mitigation”, IEE Seminar on "Power - it's a Quality
Thing", London, February 2005.
9 Putrus G.A., “Power Electronic Systems: a problem or a solution” Twelfth International
IEE School on High Voltage Engineering & Testing, 17-22 July 2005, Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK
10 Putrus G.A., White S., Ramachandran J., Maloyd A. and Pearsall N., “Integration of
Small Scale Embedded Generation in Low Voltage Power Distribution Networks”, The
12th International Stirling Engine Conference and Technology Exhibition, Durham,
UK, Sept. 2005.
11 Putrus G.A., “Power Electronics Applications in Distribution Networks” Thirteenth IET
International Course on High Voltage Engineering and Testing, 16-21 July 2006,
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
12 Putrus G.A., Ramachandran J. and Maloyd A., “Performance of LV Distribution Networks with Significant SSEG”, First International Conference on Industrial and Information
Systems (ICIIS 2006), 8-11 August 2006, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Referred Conference papers
1 Ashok Kumar B.S., Mohammad M.Z. and Putrus G.A., "Power system fault detection by digital techniques", IMEKO Symposium on Computerized Measurement, Yugoslavia, Sept.
1981, pp.213-216.
2 Al-Tikriti M.N., Putrus G.A., Jabouri M.Y. and Al-Fakhri W.A., "Digital power-factor and phase angle meter", Proceedings of the 4 th
Scientific Conference, Scientific Research
Council, Iraq, Oct. 1986.
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Putrus G.A. and Cooper C.B., "Experimental study of a UFC laboratory model employing
GTO thyristors", 30 th
Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC’95),
Greenwich, 5-7 Sept. 1995, Vol.2, pp. 431-434.
Putrus G.A., Jenkins N. and Cooper C.B., "A static fault current limiter and circuit breaker", UPEC’96 Conference Proceeding, Greece, Sept. 1996, Vol.3, pp. 925-928.
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Putrus G.A., "Principles of switching power converters", UPEC’96 Conference
Proceeding, Greece, Sept. 1996, Vol.2, pp. 653-656.
Wijayakulasooriya J.V., Putrus G.A. and Minns P.D., “Image techniques based on timefrequency distributions for power quality monitoring” UPEC’97 Conference
Proceeding, UMIST, Sept. 1997, Vol.1, pp. 226-229.
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Holdsworth L. and Putrus G.A., “Investigations into advanced static VAr compenstor malfunctions and adaptive control strategies” UPEC’98 Conference Proceeding,
Edinburgh, Sept. 1998, Vol.2, pp. 747-750.
Wijayakulasooriya J.V., Putrus G.A. and Minns P.D., “Application of wavelet transform in power quality disturbance analysis” UPEC’98 Conference Proceeding, Edinburgh,
Sept. 1998, Vol.2, pp. 831-834.
9 Farrag M. E. A. and Putrus G. A., “Advanced Control of The Unified Power Flow
Controller” UPEC’99 Conference Proceeding, Leicester, Sept. 1999, Vol.1, pp. 74-77.
10 Ahmed M.M.R. and Putrus G.A., "Investigation into Custom Power Technology"
UPEC’99 Conference Proceeding, Leicester, Sept. 1999, Vol.2, pp. 509-512.
11 Farrag M. E. A., Putrus G. A. and Ran L., “Analysis of a Transmission System
Incorporating a UPFC for Optimum Power Flow Control”, UPEC’2000 Conference
Proceeding, Belfast, Sept. 2000.
12 Ahmed M.M.R. and Putrus G.A., Ran L. and Xiao L., "Harmonic Analysis And
Improvement of a New Solid-State Fault Current Limiter " IEEE Rural Electric Power
Conference Proceeding, Arkansas, USA, May 2001, D5/1-8.
13 Putrus G.A., Ahmed M.M.R. and Ran, L. " Improving Current Sharing Between Parallel
Varistors " IEEE, ISIE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics Proceedings,
Pusan, Korea, June 2001, Vol2, pp. 1324-1327.
14 Ahmed M.M.R., Putrus G.A., Ran L. and R. Penlington "Measuring the Energy
Handling Capability of Metal Oxide Varistors " IEE CIRED Conference Proceeding,
Vol.1, No. 482, Amsterdam, June 2001.
15 Ran L., Holdsworth L. and Putrus G.A., “Elimination of low order harmonics in a threelevel inverter used for Static VAr Compensation”, Proceedings of the 9 th
European
Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE2001, August 2001, Graz,
Austria, pp.1-7.
16 Farrag M. E. A., Putrus G. A. and Ran L., “Using PWM Control to Improve the Speed of Response of the Advanced Static VAr Compensator”, UPEC’2001 Conference,
Swansea, Sept. 2001.
17 Lee Holdsworth, Ghanim A. Putrus and Li Ran “A New Adaptive Discharge-Path-
Protection-Switch Clamped Multilevel Inverter”, Proceedings of PowerCon-2002,
IEEE/PES-CSEE International Conference on Power System Technology, Kunming,
China, October 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 590-594.
18 Hu Y., McCormick M., Haydock L., Cirstea M. and Putrus G.A.“Advanced Hybrid
Variable Speed Controller for Stand-Alone Diesel Engine Driven Generator Systems”,
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Proceedings of PowerCon-2002, IEEE/PES-CSEE International Conference on Power
System Technology, Kunming, China, October 2002, Vol.2, pp.711-715.
19 Ahmed M.M.R. and Putrus G.A., Ran L. “Power Quality Improvement using a solidstate fault current limiter”, IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference,
Yokohama, Japan, October, 2002, Vol 2, pp. 1059-1064.
20 Ahmed M.M.R. and Putrus G.A., Ran L. “Predicting IGBT Junction Temperature Under transient Conditions” Proceedings of IEEE-ISIE2002, International Symposium on
Industrial Electronics, L`Aquila, Italy, July 2002, Vol. 3, pp 874-877.
21 Ng C. H., Ran L., Putrus G.A. and Busawon K. “Analysis of Aliasing in Active Power
Harmonics Filter” UPEC’2002 Conference Proceeding, Stafford, Sept. 2002.
22 Farrag M. E. A., Putrus G. A. and Ran L., “Real Time Hybrid Control System for the
Advanced Static VAr Compensator” UPEC’2002 Conference Proceeding, Stafford,
Sept. 2002.
23 Jayaraman R., Pearsall N.M. and Putrus G.A. “Optimal Sizing of Inverters for Grid-
Connected PV Systems” UPEC’2002 Conference Proceeding, Stafford, Sept. 2002.
24 Ran L., Smith K.S., Liao Y. and Putrus G.A. “Calculation of Transformer Core Losses with
Non-linear Loads”, IEEE/PES International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of
Power, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October, 2002, Vol.2, pp. 682-687.
25 Liao Y., Xiang D., Ran L. and Putrus G.A. “Analysis of Harmonic Transfer in a.c. Excited
Generator Including Speed Ripple”, IECON-2002 28 th
Annual Conference of the IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society, Vol. 2, 2002, pp. 1162-1166.
26 Farrag M. E. A., Putrus G. A. and Ran L., “Design of Fuzzy Based-Rules Control
System for the Unified Power Flow Controller” Proceedings of The 28th Annual
Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Sevilla, Spain, November 2002,
Vol.3, pp. 2102-2107.
27 Subsingha W., Busawon K., Putrus G.A. and Ran L., “Robust midvoltage regulation of a power system network using ASVC”, Proceedings of the 7 th
IASTED International
Conference on Power and Energy Systems (PES 2003), 24-26 February, 2003, Palm
Springs, USA, pp 138-142.
28 Subsingha W., Busawon K., Putrus G.A. and Ran L., “Line impedance and power angle estimation for the control of a grid connected synchronous generator”, Proceedings of the 22 nd
IASTED International Conference Modelling, Identification, and Control
February 10-13, 2003, Innsbruck, Austria, pp 40-44.
29 Farrag M. E. A., Putrus G. A. and Ran L., “Artificial Neural Network Based Adaptive
Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Like PI Controller For Optimal UPFC Performance” IEEE 7 th
International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, Assiut, Egypt 4-6 March
2003, pp. 312-316.
30 Jayaraman R., Pearsall N.M. and Putrus G.A., “Impact of Inverter Size on PV System
Energy Production and Cost”, UPEC’2003 Conference Proceeding, Greece, Sept. 2003.
31 Ng C. H., Ran L., Putrus G.A. and Busawon K. “A new approach to real time individual harmonic extraction”, IEEE 5 th
International Conference on Power Electronics and
Drive Systems, 2003, Vol.1, pp 825-829.
32 Putrus G.A., Ahmed M.M.R., Ran L., Chu K.R. and Funabashi T.
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Integration of Fault
Current Limiters in Power Distribution Networks”, IEE International conference on
“Developments in Power System Protection”, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2004.
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33 Ponugubati M.K.C., Penlington R., Putrus G.A., “Development of Specifications for a
Thermal Buffer Device”, UPEC’2004 Conference Proceeding, Bristol, Sept. 2004.
34 Ahmed M.M.R., Putrus G.A. and Shokralla S.S., “A new approach for speed control of a d.c. motor fed from ac to dc Sepic converter”, 18th International Conference on
Electricity Distribution CIRED, Turin, Italy, June 2005.
35 Mahmud S., Abdullah M.J. and Putrus G.A. “Increase in upturn power dissipation of surge suppressors due to highly defective nanostructure of zinc oxide”, International
Conference on Nanomaterials, Nano 2005, Tamilnadu, India, July 2005.
36 Ponugubati M.K.C., Penlington R., Putrus G.A., “Improving the Heat Dissipation in
Surge Suppression Devices by Use of Phase Change Materials”, UPEC’2005
Conference proceedings, Cork, Ireland, Sept. 2005.
37 Ahmed M.M.R. and Putrus G.A., “Fuzzy Logic Speed Control of D.C. Motors Fed by
Single-Ended Primary Inductance Converters (Sepic)”, UPEC’2006 Conference
Proceeding, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sept. 2006.
Theses
1 Putrus G.A., "Off line analysis for high speed protection of power systems", MSc thesis submitted to the College of Engineering, University of Mosul, Iraq, March 1981.
2 Putrus G.A., "A laboratory model solid-state VAr compensator", PhD thesis submitted to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), 1990.
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