Department of Electrical Engineering

Power and Energy

New opportunities in power and energy are arising with advances in renewable energy systems, energy management, and control. Students and faculty are investigating renewable energy systems to develop a variety of novel applications, from solar energy systems to power systems. Power systems research is seeking new tools and techniques for improving grid efficiency and robustness. An important aspect of this work is the development of network control strategies for enhancing grid responsiveness, and enabling greater levels of renewable generation.

Topics

Renewable energy
Photovoltaic systems and Building integrated photovoltaic
Concentrator photovoltaic and solar thermal
Energy efficient buildings
Electrical power systems

Ongoing projects

Highly concentrated nonimaging CPV system
Centered receiver-based CPV system

Publications

Irfan Ullah, Optical Design of Centered-receiver CPV System, Journal of Photonics for Energy, vol. 11, pp. 035502, 2021. 10.1117/1.JPE.11.035502
Irfan Ullah, Fiber-based daylighting system using trough collector for uniform illumination, Solar Energy, vol. 196, pp. 484–493, 2020. 10.1016/j.solener.2019.12.052
Irfan Ullah, Optical Modeling of Two-stage Concentrator Photovoltaic System Using Parabolic Trough, Journal of Photonics for Energy, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 043102, 2019. 10.1117/1.JPE.9.043102
Irfan Ullah, Hui Lv, Allen Jong-Woei Whang, Yuehong Su, Analysis of a Novel Design of Uniformly Illumination for Fresnel Lens-based Optical Fiber Daylighting System, Energy and Buildings, vol. 154, pp. 19-29, 2017. 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.08.066