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

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.