I’m industrial engineering and magister in advance energy system from Universidad de Santander in Colombia. I have worked since 2016 as a teacher at this same university and I have experience in research associated with Materials for Hydrogen Storage, Hydrogen Economy and Renewable Energy. I have been a young researcher of the program of the Administrative Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation -COLCIENCIAS Colombia and I am currently pursuing my doctoral studies in Energy and Materials Sciences at UQTR.

Supersonic variable power ejector

Thermal Energy Storage Systems

Hydrogen generation, Hydrogen, Renewable Energy Sources, PEMFC, Vortex tubes

In-situ performance analysis of electric thermal storage systems implemented in institutional buildings for demand-side management and decarbonization of heating fuels

Supervisor:
Prof. João Pedro Trovão – University of Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada

Motivation
Lower CO2 and air pollutant emissions of merchant ships while they are at rest in ports
Need to optimize the auxiliary system to reduce emissions

Objectives
Plug the bulk carriers to the grid on land (shore power)
Lower investments for such a system (hybrid system)
Improve the performance of the auxiliary system

Work plan
Detail the energy demand for a bulk carrier in port
Mathematical modelling of the ship emission and microgrid
Find the best shore power solution with a multi-objective approach
Design an energy management strategy (EMS)
Technical-economic study

Results
Lower shipping GHG + air pollutants (NOx, SOx, etc.)
High-level design of shore power system (1.8 MW)
Power flow control of the system
Financial analysis

A study of differential diffusion effects in premixed, hydrogen-enriched, low-swirl flames // Étude sur la diffusion différentielle des flammes à faible tourbillonnement de mélange pauvre enrichi avec l’hydrogène

I received the B.S. degree in Mechatronics engineering from Tec de Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2015 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, in 2018. I am currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada. From 2015 to 2016, I worked as Research and Development in the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico. My current research interest includes the development of energy management strategies for fuel cell systems, passive and active system configuration, and fuel cell modeling.

Adapting photovoltaic systems to the Nordic environment: issues of partial shading and optimal electrical defrosting of snow-covered panels

Fuel-Cell/Li-ion Capacitors Vehicle using Embedded Quasi-Z-Source Inverter Topology

Transactive Energy
Adaptive Machine Learning
Discrete Control
Multi-agent Systems
Customer Engagement

As a member of the Alternative Fuels Laboratory, under the co-supervision of Prof. Bergthorson and Dr. Bourque, my research focuses on understanding NOx formation to help design future generations of low-NOx and clean combustion systems. Using robust emissions predictions, uncertainty quantification, and fundamental NO measurements in atmospheric-to-elevated pressures with various fuels (hydrogen, biogas, methane, and others), we aim to improve chemical models to achieve precise and accurate emissions predictions.

We perform numerical density functional theory (DFT) calculations to guide the search for new catalysts for hydrogen production.

Application des tubes à vortex pour récupérer la pression excédentaire de gaz dans différents systèmes / Vortex tubes applications to recover waste pressure in various systems:
Pompe à chaleur au CO2 supercritique / Heat pumps using transcritical CO2
système de stockage d’énergie par air comprimé / Compressed air energy storage system
Préchauffage de l’hydrogène pour le démarrage à froid des véhicules à hydrogène / Vortex tube as a preheating device in hydrogen electric fuel cell vehicles

Électrification efficace des serres au Québec / Efficient electrification of greenhouse under the climate of Quebec
Projet de recherche à l’étape des demandes de subventions. Le projet devrait démarer en janvier 2022. / Project should begin in January 2022.

ALGORITHME D’ESTIMATION D’ÉTAT DE SANTÉ EMBARQUÉ POUR SYSTÈME DE GESTION DE BATTERIES AVANCÉ / Online State of health algorithm for battery management system

Experimental study of the reactivity and NOx formation of hydrogen-steam flames.

Hicham Gouabi holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in “Industrial Process Automation”, a PhD in “Industrial Automation and Computer Science”, and is currently a PhD student in Engineering at the École de Technologie Supérieure, where he works on “The Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Control and Diagnosis of a Multi-Source Microgrid: Real-Time Design, Simulation, and Implementation”. He is a specialist in the design, analysis, control, management, design, and optimization of multi-source microgrids.

His research interests are:

• Artificial intelligence.
• Control.
• Renewable.
• Microgrids.
• Diagnosis.
• Power quality.
• Power electronics.
• Energy management.