Extensive expertise in the design and optimization of organic Rankine cycle systems, thermal energy storage technoligies, heat transfer enhancement techniques, advanced turbomachinery, low-temperature heat to power conversion, and waste heat recovery.
Participation on the project:
Rohit Kothari is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on LAES-Egypt project in Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Denmark. His research is focused on experimental and numerical heat transfer analysis of various thermal systems. His research interests include large-scale thermal energy storage systems such as pumped thermal energy storage and liquid air energy storage systems, phase change materials based thermal systems, thermal management of electronic devices, and heat transfer enhancement techniques.
Participation on the project: Tasks included in work package 2 (System analysis):
Dr. El-Morsi is a professor at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the American University in Cairo. His research interests are in the field of renewable energy, CFD, and thermo-fluids problems. He will be managing the African team, in support of Dr. Haglind. Dr. El-Morsi will be also participating in WP2 and WP3.
Abdelaziz Ahmed is an assistant professor of thermofluids with more than 15 years of Research and Development (R&D) and project management experience in energy-efficient building technologies, sustainable energy production and utilization, alternative cooling and heating technologies, and alternative lower global warming refrigerants.
Education:
Professor: Energy Planning (since 2004), Cairo University
Adjunct Professor (since 2018): Electric Power, Zewail University, Egypt
Amgad El-Deib received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada in 2010 all in electrical engineering with specialization in power systems and power electronics. Dr. El-Deib then joined Hatch Limited in 2011 where he was actively involved with the design and assessment of renewable power generation projects including wind and solar power plants.
Afterwards in 2013 he joined the wind turbine manufacturer ENERCON in the Research and Development department and was responsible for R&D projects focusing on power system integration of ENERCON’s wind power plants. In addition to this he worked on developing detailed EMT, real-time and RMS models using (MATLAB, EMTP-RV, PSCAD and Hypersim) and different control systems to increase the stability of the turbines under weak grid conditions.
From 2018 until now Amgad acted as a Professor with the Renewable Energy Engineering Program in the University of Science and Technology at Zewail City and on leave from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University in Egypt. His research is focused on the integration of renewable power in power systems, control and design of power electronics in power systems, energy storage systems and smart grids.