Dr Yousif Al-Sagheer PhD

PhD in Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, UK, 2018

Yousif Al-Sagheer is a research fellow in the school of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His main research interest is the integration and control of fuel cell systems. He received his PhD on balancing renewable energy fluctuation using hydrogen fuel cell and water electrolyser. He studied hardware induced events in such systems to improve the balance reliability under prediction uncertainty of power generation and demand, and to provide recommendations for the operational and design requirements. He has experience on developing model predictive controllers based on the feedback theory.

Yousif received his MSc and BSc in nuclear energy engineering at the University of Baghdad. He worked on lecturing the undergraduate modules of heat transfer, advanced mathematics, and measurement instrumentations. 

Yousif's research themes include:

• Fuel cells systems design and integration for stationary applications
• Renewable energy (RE) balancing using Hydrogen as an energy vector
• Fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FCHEV) powertrain integration and control
• Nonlinear and linearized model predictive control (MPC) Algorithm 

Yousif's research activities include:

• FC power dispatching modes
• PEM electrolyser flexible power controller
• High-level RE balancing controller using real-time MPC
• MPC controller’s development and prototyping using LabVIEW
• FCHEV range extender
• Optimal power split in FCHEV considering the Sat-Nav data