Professor Suleiman Sharkh BEng, PhD,SMIEEE, CEng, MIET

Professor of Power Electronics Machines and Drives, Head of Mechatronics Group,Deputy Director of the Southampton EPSRC Energy Storage and its Applications CDT

Suleiman Sharkh is Professor of Power Electronics Machines and Drives within Engineering and the Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

He is the Head of the Mechatronics Research Group, and the Deputy Director of the Southampton EPSRC Energy Storage and its Applications CDT.

He has over 20 years research experience in electric machines, power electronics and their applications in transport, renewable energy and microgrids. He has published over 160 papers, supervised over 20 PhD students to completion and currently supervises 10 PhD students. His inventions and research, funded by industry, EPSRC and Innovate UK, have contributed to the development of several commercial products: rim driven thrusters; direct drive tidal turbine generators; submersible motors; high speed PM machines for electric turbo compounding and gas compressors and grid connected inverters.

He was the winner of The Engineer Energy Innovation and Technology Award 2008 for his work on novel rim driven marine thrusters and turbine generators.

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Research interests

Modelling and design of electric machines and electromagnetic devices for ship and car propulsion, submersible pumps, waste heat energy recovery, electric turbo compounding, high speed gas compressors and active vibration damping.
Power electronic converters for interfacing renewable sources and energy storage to the grid, motor control and battery charging and management.
Microgrid control and energy management.
Energy management of hybrid drive trains.
Effect of electromagnetic fields on insects and fish.

Research group

Mechatronics Engineering Group

Affiliate research group

Energy Technology

Research project(s)

Analysis of PM Machines

Power Management of a Stand-Alone, Small-Scale Compressed Air Energy Storage System

Battery Characterisation and Management - the key to Smart Grids and the Integration of Electric Vehicles

This project is supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and has five UK academic partners and three Chinese partners. It will study lithium battery cell development and Vehicle to Grid (V2G) operation to investigate grid scale energy storage, from a battery perspective ‘upwards’ and not from a network level 'downwards'.

Examining long-term degradation of LiFePO4 batteries for Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Energy Storage

This project will use the neutron instruments at ISIS at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to investigate the degradation of batteries as a result of operation under Vehicle to Grid (V2G) condition.

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Articles

Book Chapters

Hendijanizadeh, M., Sharkh, S., & Qazalbash, A. A. (2018). Comparison of PM and hybrid excited machines for marine vessel hybrid-electric propulsion. In 2018 XIII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM) (pp. 603-608). Piscataway: IEEE.
Abu-Sharkh, S. M. (2002). Populsion systems for AUV's. In G. Griffiths (Ed.), Technology and Applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (pp. 109-126). (Ocean and Earth Science Technology; Vol. 2). Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis.

Conferences

Review

Xiong, R., Sharkh, S. M., & Zhang, X. (2018). Research progress on electric and intelligent vehicles. Energies, 11(7), [1762]. DOI: 10.3390/en11071762

Thesis

Abu Sharkh, S. M. (1994). Influence of contact dynamics and point-on-wave switching on arc and contact phenomena in medium duty switches

Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
Advanced Electrical Systems	SESM6002	Mechanical Engineering	Course leader
Automotive Propulsion	SESM6018	Mechanical Engineering	Tutor
Introduction to Energy Technologies	SESM6021	Mechanical Engineering	Tutor

Professor Suleiman Sharkh
Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton. SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number: 7/5027/M7

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