Dr. Abdel-Galil is a Research Engineer (III) with the Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mineral, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. During his academic carrier, he has participated in many funded research projects which are related to power system planning and operation, distribution system operation, and power quality.  In addition to participating in these projects, he has also had specific responsibilities in associated technical and organizational development activities. His technical responsibilities included significant roles in technical proposal preparations in response for industrial request for proposals, and techno-economic evaluation of projects.  As part of his organizational development mandates, he was actively involved in the preparation and delivery of the restructuring components of these projects. His academic responsibilities included teaching courses related to power system operation and machine in electrical engineering department and delivering short courses oriented for industry needs.  Prior to this, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                          

2003                Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Distribution System Operation and Power Quality, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

1998                M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Power System Stability, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

1992                B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, with distinction, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE                                                                                                                   

2005                Instructor, KFUPM University, Saudi Arabia

                        Fundamentals of Energy Systems

2000-2003       Teaching Assistant, University of Waterloo, Canada

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (instructing and marking)

Energy Conversion and Theory of Electrical Machines (instructing and marking)

Fundamentals of Electronic Circuits, Electromagnetic Field (instructing and marking)

1992-1999        Teaching Assistant, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Electric Circuit Theory, Theory of Electromagnetics, Power Electronics, Electromagnetic Energy Conversion, Theory of Electrical Machines, Electrical Measurement Automatic Control, Electrical Power Systems, and High Voltage (tutoring and marking) Power Electronics, Electric Circuits, Electrical Measurements, Electrical Machines, and Power Systems (tutoring, marking, and designing lab experiments)

RESEARCH EXERIENCE

 

2004-               Research Institute-King Fahd University, Dhahran, Saudi-Arabia

                       

Electrical Engineer III

Conducting funded research projects related to energy system and high voltage studies, including utility strategic planning, load forecasting, generation, transmission and distribution planning, distribution system operation and training of client staff. Funded projects client list include: Ministry of Water and Electricity “Saudi Arabia”, Saudi Electricity Company, and Electricity and Co-Generation Regulatory Authority “Saudi Arabia”.

 

Current Projects

                          Development of electricity generation & transmission plan  

This study has been prepared in response to a request by the Ministry of Water of Electricity (MOWE), Saudi Arabia. The purpose of this study is to prepare a Master Plan for the expansion of Electricity Generation & Transmission Systems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Currently, the research team anticipates the Saudi-Arabia demand forecast based on maximum and minimum economic growth conditions as well as most likely conditions. System load shape and industrial, commercial and residential load characteristics are reviewed and then utilized in the forecasting process.

Based on the expected load growth, the project team will assess alternative supply resource options, taking into account the technical requirements of the electric systems, input from Saline Water Desalination Plan (SWDP) and any factors worth considering. Alternative generation expansion scenarios will be initially formulated using the options identified in the study.  The timing of generation additions will be optimized so that each sequence meets a pre-determined reliability criterion.  Detailed simulation of the sequences will then be carried out using power system planning computer programs.  Depending on the results of the analysis, further sequences will be tested until an optimum plan for the base case assumptions is derived.

Once the optimum production expansion plan has been developed, the transmission systems will be investigated in order to deliver the output of the production facilities to the major load centers in each area of the Kingdom. 

The production and transmission expansions will then be coordinated into a phased development plan. An overall method of financial analysis that can be applied consistently across the regions to all meaningful comparison to be made regarding the financial performance will be developed. The electricity sector requirement for fuel will be estimated based on the finding of the EGTP plan for the consideration of Kingdom’s fuel supply policy. The estimate of fuel needs will be presented as a separate report and will not be part of the final plan report. 

 

Investigation of voltage harmonics and unbalance in transmission network

This study is prepared for Saudi Electricity Company. The overall objectives of this project are to characterize and analyze harmonics and voltage unbalance on the transmission systems of Saudi Electricity Company and to investigate possible mitigation technique for systems which may encounter voltage harmonics and\or voltage unbalance problems.  

 

Completed Projects

 

Updated generation planning for Saudi electricity sector

 

                        This study was prepared for Electricity and Co-Generation Regulatory Authority. The primary objectives of this study are to develop a demand forecast for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the coming 15 years (2005-2020) and to develop a viable Electricity Generation Plan for the coming 15 years (2005-2020). The plan took into consideration a provision for co-generation of electricity and water from the saline water desalination plants.

 

Power quality monitoring and standards.

This proposal was prepared in response to a request from Saudi Electricity Company to conduct a study on the different power quality standards and equipment.

 

Effect of extremely low frequency-electromagnetic fields on electric utility workers.

This study was prepared for Saudi Electricity Company to study the effect of low frequency electromagnetic field on electric utility worker. Interaction of electric fields at power line frequencies (50/60 Hz) in humans has been the subject of research and considerable public concern during the last three decades. This proposal has been prepared in response to a request for the Research Institute of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals to conduct evaluations of induced electric field and current density in the human body due to the extremely low frequency electromagnetic field produced by power lines. EPRI Workstation software is utilized to calculate the external electric and magnetic field for different scenarios suggested by the clients. Finite Difference Time Difference method is adopted in this study to estimate the induced electric field intensity and current density inside the human body organs due to the external electric and magnetic field coming from power lines.

 

Environmental effect on polymer insulators properties

This study is prepared for Saudi Electricity Company. The objectives of this study are to investigate the technical performance of the polymeric insulators in comparison to ceramic insulators, and to evaluate the effects of the environmental parameters on the properties of the polymer insulation such as humidity, dust, temperature, UV radiation and pollution.  This study will provide recommendations regarding the use of such insulators throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia especially in the eastern and western regions where pollutions affect the performance of installed ceramic insulators which results in the increasing of the cost required for washing ceramic insulator and degrade the performance of Transmission network because of high risk of flashover due to pollution trapped on the surface of the ceramic insulator. Tests are conducted according to IEC 61507, IEC61109, and international standard practices.

Training Courses

    

Practical Issues in Power Quality

Measurement and Simulation of Power Quality Disturbances

Advanced power system analysis

ACADEMIC POSTS                                                                                                                              

 

Summer 2005  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

 

2003-2004       Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

 

2000-2003       Research Assistant, participated in various projects related to distribution system and power quality, and the application of AI techniques in power system area, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

 

1994-1999       Research Assistant, participated in various projects related to economic design of transmission and distribution networks, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

 

2000-2003              Teaching Assistant, delivering tutorials and laboratories for power system analysis courses and basic electric engineering courses, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

1994-1999              Teaching Assistant, delivering tutorials and laboratories for all courses related to  power engineering and basic electrical engineering courses

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS                                                                                          

Journal Publications

 

T.K. Abdel-Galil, R.M. Sharkawy, M.M.A. Salama, R. Bartnikas, April 2005, “Partial discharge pulse pattern recognition using inductive inference algorithm” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation,  Vol.12, No.2, pp. 320-327.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, A.M. Youssef, and M.M.A. Salama, 2005 “Automated power quality recognition using hidden Markov model and vector quantization,” to be published in the IEEE Transactions on IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery

T.K. Abdel-Galil, R.M. Sharkawy, M.M.A. Salama, R. Bartnikas, Dec. 2005, “PD Pattern Classification Using the Fuzzy Decision Tree Approach”, to be published ( Dec. 2005) in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

M.I. Marei, T.K. Abdel-Galil E.F. El-Saadany and M.M.A. Salama, April 2005 “Hilbert transform based control algorithm of the DG interface for voltage flicker mitigation,” IEEE Transaction on Power Delivery, Vol.20, No.2, Part I, pp. 1129-1133.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, Y.G. Hegazy, M.M.A. Salama, and R. Bartnikas, Feb. 2005, “Fast match based vector quantization partial discharge pulse pattern recognition,” IEEE Trans. on Measurement and Instrumentation, vol. 54, Issue: 1,  pp. 3–9

T.K. Abdel-Galil, M. Kamel, A.M. Youssef, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M.A. Salama, Oct. 2004,  “Power quality disturbance classification using inductive inference approach,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, vol. 19 , Issue: 4 ,  pp.1812-1818

 T.K. Abdel-Galil, Y.G. Hegazy, M.M.A. Salama, and R. Bartnikas, Aug. 2004, “Partial discharge pulse pattern recognition using hidden Markov models,” IEEE Trans. on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 11, Issue: 4,  pp. 715 - 723.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M.A. Salama,  April 2004 “On-line tracking of voltage flicker utilizing energy operator and Hilbert transform,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Volume: 19 , Issue: 2 ,  Pages:861-867

A.M. Youssef, T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M.A. Salama, Jan. 2004, “Disturbance classification utilizing dynamic time warping classifier,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, pp. 272- 278

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M.A. Salama, Jan 2003 “Power quality event detection using Adaline,” Journal of Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 64, pp.137-143,

A. El-Dery, T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M.A. Salama,   “Identification of partial discharge locations in transformer winding using PSD estimation,” IEEE Power Engineering letter. Accepted for future publications

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, A.M. Youssef, and M.M.A. Salama, “Switched capacitor location identification using TSL-ESPRIT approach,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery.  Pending editorial board approval. Paper I.D. TPWRD-00313-2003

R. M Sharkawy, R. S. Mangoubi, T. K. Abdel-Galil, M.M. A. Salama, and R. Bartnikas,  “SVM classification of contaminating particles in liquid dielectrics using higher order statistics of electrical and acoustic pd measurements,” submitted IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

 

 

 

Conference Papers:          

 

T.K Abdel-Galil, I. O. Habiballah, 2005 “Challenges of using partial discharge measurements for predictive maintenance,” IEEE/PES T&D Asia Pacific 2005, China

T.K Abdel-Galil, I. O. Habiballah, 2005 “Safety assessment for electric utility workers exposed to ELF-EMF: literature review,” Accepted for publication GCC 2005 Conference

T.K Abdel-Galil, I. O. Habiballah, 2005 “A smart power quality monitoring strategy,” Accepted for Publication AUPEC 2005 Conference

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, A. Youssef, and M.M.A. Salama, 2004, “Disturbance classification by template matching,” Power Systems 2004 Conference Distributed Generation, Advanced Metering and Communication, March 10-12, 2004.

M. A. El-Dery, M. Marei, T. K. Abdel-Galil, E. F. El-Saadany, and M. M. A. Salama, 2004 “ A virtual instrument for voltage flicker tracking, ” Power Engineering Society General Meeting 2004.

 T.K Abdel-Galil, E.F El-Saadany, A. M. Youssef, and M.M. A Salama, 2002 “On-line disturbance recognition utilizing vector quantization based fast match,” Proc IEEE Summer Meeting, Chicago, USA, July 2002.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M. M. A. Salama, 2002, “Energy operator for on-line tracking of voltage flicker levels,” Proc. IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, vol. 2, pp. 1153-1157.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M.A. Salama, 2002 “Power quality assessment in deregulated power systems,” Proc. IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, vol. 2, pp. 952-958.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M.A. Salama, 2001 “Implementation of different mitigation techniques for reducing harmonic distortion in medium voltage industrial distribution system,” Proc.  IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conf., vol. 1, 2001, pp. 561-566.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, E.F. El-Saadany, and M.M. A. Salama, 2001 “Effect of new deregulation policy on power quality monitoring and mitigation techniques,” Proc. IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conf., vol. 1, 2001, pp. 554-560.

E.F. El-Saadany, T.K. Abdel-Galil, and M.M. A. Salama, 2001 “Application of wavelet transform for assessing power quality in medium voltage industrial distribution system,” Proc.  IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conf., vol. 1, 2001, pp. 427-432

E.F. El-Saadany, T.K. Abdel-Galil, and M.M.A. Salama, 2001 “Medium voltage industrial distribution system power quality assessment utilizing multi-resolution decomposition techniques,” Proc. Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 2, 2001, pp. 869-874.

T.K. Abdel-Galil, K.I. Saleh, M.A. El-Sharkawy, and M. A. L. Badr, 2001 “ANN-based power system stabilizer,” Proc. of Eighth International Middle-East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON), 2001, pp. 509-517.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

                                         

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Power System, Reviewer  

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion Reviewer

IEEE Trans. on Measurement and Instrumentation

IEEE Power Engineering Letters, Reviewer

 

 

INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATION

 

Power Quality Working Group, Saudi Arabia, Member since 2004.

GRANTS

2005-2006       College of Engineering Science Innovation Grant,

                        Development of a Precise  3-D Magnetic Field Sensor                                

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS                                                                                                         

2003-2002       Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS),

2002-2001       Ontario Graduate Scholarship for Science and Technology (OGSST),

Faculty of Engineering Scholarship (FOE), by University of Waterloo,

Winter 2001    Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, ECE, University of Waterloo,

1992                Medal of Academic Distinction, Ain Shams University, Egypt, Scholarship for -1992-1987  Academic Distinction, Ain Shams University, Egypt

DIRECTORSHIPS                                                                                                                                 

King Fahd University, Dhahran, Saudi-Arabia

          Member of campus planning committee

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS                                                                                                              

Programming Languages:    C, FORTRAN

Power System Simulators:   EMTDC / PSCAD, CYME

Software:  MATLAB, LabView, EMPIRE (Electromagnetic simulator)

Power System Planning Software:               STRATEGIST

 

                 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS                                                                                                      

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

LANGUAGES                                                                                                                                         

English, Arabic

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE                                                                                                        

Saudi-Arabia, Egypt, and Canada

REFERENCES

                        Available upon request