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Md. Shafiuzzaman Khan Khadem
M.Sc in Applied Physics & Electronics
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

This is Shafiuzzaman and at present (from Jan'09) doing research with the Electrical Power Research Group at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland on Power Quality improvement in Distributed Generation integrated network using UPQC. Design, real time control and placement of UPQC in DG with grid or microgrid for PQ improvement is the main task of the study. I am also involved as a Consultant / Expert in solar and wind energy projects in Bangladesh.

Before that I worked as a Lecturer for 2 years in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Dept, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). In parallel, I also worked for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - Bangladesh for their wind energy project. I started my professional work at  the Renewable Energy Research Centre, University of Dhaka, as a Research Associate where I did research for more than 6 years on solar and wind energy. I was also  one of the resource persons for the solar and wind energy resource assessment over Bangladesh under the global project of SWERA, funded by UNEP/GEF.  I have completed my B.Sc (hons) and M.Sc in Applied Physics & Electronics (presently renamed as - Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering) from the University of Dhaka in 1999 & 2000 respectively.

Research Interest
  • Design and Control of Custom Power Devices like Active Power Filter and Unified Power Quality Conditioner
  • Power Electronics for DG integrated network
  • Microgrid
  • Energy Resource Assessment & Prediction
  • Wind & Solar Energy Technology
  • Energy & Environment

Research Experience

Electronics

  • Power Quality Improvement of Distributed Generation Network with Custom Power Devices
  • Remote Appliance controlling through micro-controller and mobile communication
  • Micro-controller based battery charging system
  • Practical circuits design for Lab Experiment on Electronics circuits and communication coursework

Wind Energy

  • Feasibility Analysis of On and Off-grid Wind Power Generation in Bangladesh
  • Feasibility study of Wind Home System for coastal part of Bangladesh
  • Micro-scale analysis for the Wind Farm Development in the potential sites of Bangladesh
  • Wind energy resource assessment over Bangladesh
  • Renewable based hybrid system for power options in Bangladesh

Solar Photovoltaic

  • Feasibility analysis of Grid-Connected and Off-grid PV systems in Bangladesh
  • Technical study of Building integrated Grid-Connected PV system
  • Prospects of Solar Home Systems in Bangladesh

Solar Thermal

  • Economic Analysis of Solar Water Heating System for hotels / hospitals / domestic uses
  • Environmental effects of energy uses in the built environment for heating/cooling system
  • Development of MbO, Cu2O, Cr2O3, CuS black selective surface coating for solar absorber

Solar Radiation

  • Set up of automatic data acquisition system for measurement of Solar radiation
  • Estimation of Solar radiation over Bangladesh using sunshine and cloud cover data
  • Optimization of tilt angle for solar collector

Working Experience

Lecturer (Oct 2006 – Sept 2008) - Dept of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.

Resource person – Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD), ULAB

Researcher (part time) (Apr 2007 – Dec 2008) - “Study on verification of wind observation at Feni” - a project of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Bangladesh.

Research Associate (Jan 2001 – Sept 2006) - Renewable Energy Research Research, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Coordinating and Managing of RERC projects & Provide support to the research students
  • Research on Renewable Energy based power options in Bangladesh
  • Resource person for “Solar & Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) – Bangladesh” a part of the global project of SWERA funded by UNEP / GEF

Faculty member (part time) (Nov 2001 – May 2002) - Economics Alumni Computer Hall, Department of Economics, DU, Bangladesh

Research fellow (Jan 2000 –Dec 2000) - Renewable Energy Research Centre, University of Dhaka

Consultant (Renewable Energy Systems) - Electrocom Ideas and Technologies Limited, Bangladesh
                                                                        SolarEye, Bangladesh
                                                                    

Professional training

  • Microgrid short course with lab - at Aalborg University, Denmark
  • RT-LAB Real Time Simulation - training at DIT, Ireland
  • Education and Training on Renewable Energy Systems for Housing (ETRESH) - Erasmus Programme, Edinburgh, UK, awarded best group presentation
  • Physics for Renewable Energy – trained in ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  • Renewable based Hybrid Power Systems using HOMER, ViPOR and Hybrid2 - trained by NREL, USA
  • RETScreen - trained by UNEP and TERI in Bangladesh
  • International Training on Solar Energy Technology – in IIT, Delhi, India
  • Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program (WAsP) – trained by RISOE, Denmark

Extra-curricular Activities 

Computer Skills

  • Operating System: Windows, Linux 
  • Programming Language: C
  • Circuit Analysis & Micro-controller: PSCAD, MATLAB, PSPICE, RT-LAB
  • Energy Assessment and Analysis: WAsP, RETScreen, HOMER, ViPOR
  • GIS mapping: AutoCad Map, Arc View
  • Computer Networking - CCNA

Social Work 

Founder President & Member - Friends Unity Multi-purpose Co-operative Society Limited (FUmcsl), Dhaka

Awards

  • Government scholarship – for Secondary School Certificate achievement
  • Government scholarship – for Higher Secondary Certificate achievement 
  • University scholarship – for Bachelor of Science (B.Sc Hon’s) achievement
Memberships
  • Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Member – The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
  • Life Member - Bangladesh Solar Energy Society

 Countries visited for Meeting / Conference purpose

USA, UK, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Spain, UAE, Malaysia, SriLanka, Nepal, India

Publications

Journal Papers:

1.        “A pre-feasibility study of Wind Resources in Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh”, S K Khadem & M Hussain, Renewable Energy, Elsevier, 2006, v-31(14), p:2329-2341

2. “Feasibility study of wind home system in coastal region of Bangladesh”, S K Khadem, L Mariam, H R Ghosh, J Rahman, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci., 2007, v-55(2), p:263-68

3.        “Wind Energy Assessment For The Coastal Part of Bangladesh” S K Khadem, H R Ghosh, S K Aditya, N C Bhowmik, M Hussain, Dhaka Univ J. Sci, 2007, v-55(1), p:53-57

4.        “Wind Resource Assessment Over Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh”, S K Khadem, H R Ghosh, S K Aditya, M Hussain, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci, 2006, v-54(2), p:219-223

5.        “Estimation of sunshine duration from cloud cover data for Bangaldesh”, H R Ghosh, S M Ullah, S K Khadem, N C Bhowmik, M Hussain, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci, 2006, v-54(2), p:187-190

6.        “Estimation of monthly averaged daily and hourly global & diffuse radiation for Bangladesh”, H R Ghosh, L Mariam, S K Khadem, N C Bhowmik, M Hussain, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci.,2006, v-54(1), p:109-113

7.        “Modified method of Cu2S coating on activated Cu substrate”, A. K. M. Siddique, A. K. Azad, S K Khadem, N.C. Bhowmik, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci.,2003, v-52(1), p:81-84.

8.         “Experimental studies on multi-layer CrO3 black selective surface coating on different substrate” A A Khan, Z H Mahmood, S K Khadem, M A K Azad, N C Bhowmik and J Rahman, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci.,2003, v-51(2), p: 301-304.

9.         “An improved selective surface for photo thermal device” A. A. Khan, S K Khadem, N.C. Bhowmik, Z H Mahmood, J. Rahman, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci., 2003, v- 51(1), p:15 – 18.

10.  “To study the performance of Molybdenum black selective surface coating for optimized thickness” S K Khadem, Z H Mahmood, N C Bhowmik, A A Khan, J Rahman, Dhaka. Univ.J. Sci., 2001, v- 49(2), p: 105-110.

Conference Papers:

1.    “Power Quality in Grid connected Renewable Energy Systems: Role of Custom Power Devices” S K Khadem, M Basu, M F Conlon, ICREPQ’10, Granada, Spain, 22- 25 March, 2010

2. “Design and Analysis of a Super Capacitor based PV system for Base Transceiver Station (BTS)” E H Chowdhury, S K Khadem, D Das, J Haque, R K Mazumder, NCEIT 2007, Rajshahi University, 22 – 24 December, 2007

3.       “Design of a Low Cost Parallel Port Universal PIC Programmer” E H Chowdhury, S K Khadem, NCEIT 2007, Rajshahi University, 22 – 24 December, 2007

4.        “Feasibility study of Wind Home System in Coastal Region of Bangladesh” S K Khadem, World Renewable Energy Congress IX (WREC 2006), Florence, Italy, 19-25 Aug, 2006

5.        “WAsP Analysis for Wind Energy Assessment over Kutubdia Island”, S. K. Khadem, S. K. Aditya, S. M. Ullah, H. R. Ghosh and M. Hussain, World Renewable Energy Congress VIII (WREC2004), Colorado, USA, 28 Aug – 03 Sept 2004.

6.        “Low power lighting system for rural house-hold and its cost analysis”, M S Kaiser, S. K Aditya, S K Khadem, H R Ghosh, R K Mazumder ,Proceedings of the  regional workshop on Renewable Energy: Progress and Prospects, Dhaka, 26 – 27 Feb 2004.

7.        “WAsP analysis of wind energy over Kutubdia and selection of sites for wind generators”, S. K. Khadem, S. K. Aditya, S. M. Ullah, H. R. Ghosh and M. Hussain, ICRESD 2003 Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2 – 4 Oct, 2003

8.       “The effect of obstacles close to the anemometer mast located on a building on wind flow in the WAsP model”, S. K. Khadem, J. Badger, S. M. Ullah, S. K. Aditya, H. R. Ghosh and M. Hussain, RETRUD 03, 12 -14 Oct, 2003, Nepal

9.        “Prediction of clock time hourly global and diffuse radiation from daily values over Bangladesh”, S. M. Ullah, S. K. Khadem, H. R. Ghosh, R. K. Mozumder and M. Hussain, RETRUD 03, 12 -14 Oct, 2003, Nepal

10.        “Estimation of sunshine duration from cloud cover data for Bangladesh”, H. R. Ghosh, S. M. Ullah, S. K. Khadem, N. C. Bhowmik and M. Hussain, RETRUD 03, 12 -14 Oct, 2003, Nepal

11.     “Solar Electrification at Cyclone Silters and Hill Tracks Region in Bangladesh: LGED's Experiene” T Islam, A R Ahad, S K Khadem, Z H Mahmood, International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), February2001, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Other Articles and reports

1.  “Study on Verification of Wind Observation at Feni” – preparing for JICA Bangladesh project, March 2009  

2. “Country Report SWERA -Bangladesh” – prepared for SWERA-Bangladesh (http://swera.unep.net) project completion, February 2007 

3.  “Wind Speed in Bangladesh & its Prospects”, Energy & Power, 2006, fortnightly magazine, v-4 (5), p: 17 -20

Book

1. Fundamentals of Digital Electronics - R K Mazumder, A H M Jahirul Haque, S K Khadem; Jan 2009, Publisher: Mullick Brothers, Bangladesh

 

References

  • Dr. Malabika Basu, School of Electrical Engineering Systems, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland,
    Email: mbasu@ieee.org, phone: +35314024996(off)     
  • Dr. Michael Conlon, Head, Dept of Control Systems Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering Systems, DIT, Ireland
    Email: michael.conlon@dit.ie, phone: +35314022838(off)
  • Prof. Dr. Rezaul Karim Mazumder, Dept of Applied Physics, Electronics and Communication Engineering &
    Director, Renewable Energy Research Centre, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh,
    Email: rercdu@yahoo.com, phone: 02-9677126, 9661920 ext: 7341 (off)
  • Prof (retd) Dr. Muhtasham Hussain, President, Bangladesh Solar Energy Society, & Chief Consultant, SWERA – Bangladesh, Email: bses_bd@yahoo.com Ph: 02-9677125 (off)

 

 

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