Staff Profile
Dr Muez Shiref
- Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 8180
- Address: School of Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
USB / Merz Court
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
Dr Muez Shiref is former Research Associate in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University and is now the Technical and Operations Lead for the Energy Systems Facilities.
Area of expertise
- Schematic capture and PCB Design
- Design, control and evaluation of electric motor drives
- Embedded systems design, implementation and software development
- Development of power electronic systems for energy conversion applications
- Development of transmission systems for underwater acoustic communications
- Systems modelling, simulation and analysis through utilizing the tools of Matlab®, Simulink® and PLECS®
Research
Dr Shiref has long been a member of the Electrical Power Research Group, and he has also worked for a stint with the Intelligent Sensing and Communications Research Group
Projects:
- Low Cost Electric Drivetrain – (LCED)
- Underpinning Power Electronics – (Integrated Drives)
- 48V Town & Country Hybrid Powertrain - (TC48)
- The Faraday Institution : Reuse & Recycling of Lithium-ion Batteries - (ReLiB)
- The Faraday Institution : Battery Degradation
- Full-Duplex For Underwater Acoustic Communications
Research Interest:
Control of electric drives, power electronics, power converters and real-time digital control, battery management system, non-invasive diagnostics and hardware development of acoustic communication systems..
Publications
- Winterborne D, Shiref M, Snow S, Pickert V. TC48: A low cost 48V integrated drive for mild hybrid electric vehicles. In: The 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2018). 2019, Liverpool, UK: IET.
- Khalfalla H, Ethni S, Shiref M, Al-Greer M, Pickert V, Armstrong M. Grid Impedance Estimation for Single Phase PV Grid Tide Inverter Based on Statistical Signal Processing Techniques. In: 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2018, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
- Ethni S, Smith A, Khalfalla H, Shiref M. Open Circuit Stator Winding Fault Detection of Induction Machines from Transient Data Using Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms. In: 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2018, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
- Thompson DL, Hartley JM, Lambert SM, Shiref M, Harper GDJ, Kendrick E, Anderson P, Ryder KS, Gaines L, Abbott AP. The importance of design in lithium ion battery recycling-a critical review. Green Chemistry 2020, 22(22), 7585-7603.