Professor Omar Hanafy Abdalla (Fellow EIEE, Senior Member IEEE) was born in Cairo, Egypt on 11 May, 1945. He received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Liverpool, England, in 1979. Since B. Sc. graduation in 1967, he has been appointed in various positions in university teaching and research as follows: Engineer 1967, Demonstrator 1970, Lecturer 1976, Associate Professor 1983, Professor 1987, Head of Department 1987, Vice-Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research 1997, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering 2002-2005, and Professor Emeritus 2005-Now. He has published over 90 papers, supervised 21 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, and acted as a Reviewer for many national and international periodicals and conferences: (e.g. Proceedings IET, IEEE Transactions, IJEEPS, MEPCON, etc.). He has been a leader of many research and consulting activities with industry including electrical power systems, economical lighting, electricity distribution networks, urban village planning, modern control systems, etc. He was the Chairman of Board of Directors of the Consulting Service Unit (2002-2005). He was a member of Board of Directors of the South Cairo Electricity Company (2004-2007). He has been engaged in many activities with professional and social societies including IEEE PES, EIEE, and others. As a Vice-President of the Egyptian Institute of Electrical Engineers, and member of the Continuing Education Center, Prof. Abdalla has provided many fruitful seminars, meetings and conferences of industrial and professional groups for constructive and productive discussions. As a Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, he has introduced new programs in the faculty departments and led the promotion of essential administration and students' activities. He organized, supervised and participated in teaching training courses for engineers and technicians. Prof. Abdalla holds over 10 international recognitions (Who's Who) from different international organizations and committees. He received a number of scientific prizes and awards. Currently, he is on leave from the University of Helwan; working "System Studies Advisor" with Oman Electricity Transmission Company, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
Power System Stability
Coordinated Design of Power System Stabilizers and Static VAR Compensators in a Multimachine Power System using Genetic Algorithms (with Wedad M. Refaey, Mohamed K. Saad, and Gamal M. Sarhan), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEEENG 2008, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt. (2008)
This paper presents a procedure to coordinated design of PSSs and SVCs in a multimachine...
Control of Industrial Systems
Development of Measuring and Computer Interface System for an Industrial Electrostatic Precipitator (with Soliman M. Sharaf and Hazem F. Feshara), Proceedings of the Second Ain Shams University International Conference on Environmental Engineering, Cairo, Egypt. (2007)
The paper describes the design and practical implementation of a measuring and digital computer interface...
Transmissiom Systems
Steady-State and Dynamic Performance of Oman Transmission System with Diesel-Engine Driven Distributed Generation (with Rashid Al-Badwawi, Hilal Al-Hadi, Hisham Al-Riyami, and Ahmed Al-Nadabi), Proc. of the 46th International Universities’ Power Engineering Conference (2011)
The paper presents simulation studies of installing a number of diesel-engine driven generating units at...
Performance of Oman Transmission System with Distributed Generation (with Hilal S. Al-Hadi and Hisham A. Al-Riyami), Poceedings of the International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development: Issues and Strategies (ESD 2010), Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2-4 June, 2010. (2010)
The paper presents simulation studies of installing distributed generation (DG) at a number of grid...
Key Performance Indicators of a Transmission System (with Masoud Awlad-Thani, Mohamed Al-Wardi, Khalfan Al-Qaidi, Saqar Al-Farsi, Ibrahim Al-Balushi, and Saeed Al-Mahdhoori), Proceedings of the 5th GCC Cigre International Conference, Riyadh, KSA, 19-21 October (2009)
The paper concerns with formulae and calculations of a selected group of Key Performance Indicators...
Development of a Digital Model for Oman Electrical Transmission Main Grid (with Hilal S. Al-Hadi and Hisham A. Al-Riyami), Proc. of the 2009 International Conference on Advanced Computations and Tools in Engineering Applications, ACTEA, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon, 15-18 July, 2009. (2009)
This paper describes the development of a digital computer model representing the main electric transmission...
Applications of Artificial Intelligent to Power Systems
APPLICATION OF A RAPID NEURAL NETWORK FOR IDENTIFICATION OF A MICRO-MACHINE SYSTEM (with Refaat S. Ahmed), Proceedings of the 8th International Middle East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON 2001), University of Helwan, 29-31 December, 2001. (2001)
This paper describes the application of a rapid neural network for identification of a micro-machine...
Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)
Stability Analysis of a Unified Power Flow Controller (with Mohamed A. E. Ghazy, Lotfy M. Lotfy, and Nermeen A. M. Hassan), Proceedings of the 13th International Middle East Power System Conference (MEPCON 2009), Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, 20-23 December 2009. (2009)
The paper concerns with stability analysis of a Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC). A nonlinear...
Steady State Analysis of Unified Power Flow Controllers (with Mohamed A. E. Ghazy, Lotfy M. Lotfy, and Nermeen A. M. Hassan), Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, Computer and Power, ICCCP09, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, 15-18 February 2009. (2009)
The paper presents a tutorial review of the basic operation, control functions and steady state...
Renewable Energy
Steady-State and Transient Performance of Oman Transmission System with 200MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant (with Rashid S. Al-Badwawi, Hilal S. Al-Hadi, Hisham A. Al-Riyami, and Ahmed Al-Nadabi), The 10th World Wind Energy Conference and Renewable Exhibition, Cairo, Egypt, on 31st October to 2nd November, 2011. (2011)
The paper presents steady-state and transient studies to assess the impact of a 200MW Concentrated...
Modeling and Control of a Wind Farm and Electrolyzer System Connected to an Electrical Gird (with Adel A. Albaset), Proceedings of the International Engineering Conference on Hot Arid Regions (IECHAR 2010), King Faisal University, KSA, 1-2 May 2010. (2010)
This paper presents modeling and control analysis of a combined Wind-H2 system connected to an...