Savvas Papadopoulos
savvas papadopoulos

Dr Savvas Papadopoulos

Lecturer

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  S.Papadopoulos@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Savvas Papadopoulos received the M. Eng. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from The University of Nottingham, U.K., in 2012, where he has also completed his Ph.D. degree in the Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Group in 2016. Between 2016 to 2018 he held a Research Fellow position in the PEMC group working in the areas of power electronics and electrical drives. Since 2019 he has been appointed Lecturer in Electrical engineering at Edinburgh Napier University.

His main research interests include power electronics development for renewable energy sources, distributed generation and energy storage as well as electrification of transport

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Fellowships and Awards

  • ENSA Best Lecturer/Tutor (Engineering & The Built Environment)

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer: IEEE Industrial Applications Society (IAS)
  • Reviewer: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE)
  • Reviewer: IET Power Electronics Journal

 

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Mitigating the effect of series capacitance unbalance on the voltage reduction capability of an auxiliary CSI used as switching ripple active filter

Conference Proceeding
Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2017)
Mitigating the effect of series capacitance unbalance on the voltage reduction capability of an auxiliary CSI used as switching ripple active filter. https://doi.org/10.1109/ecce.2016.7855244
The use of series connected capacitors for high voltage applications has been proven to be beneficial for voltage stress reduction across power semiconductors. In a 3-phase gr...

Experimental validation of a hybrid converter with enhanced switching ripple cancellation

Journal Article
Papadopoulos, S., Klumpner, C., Rashed, M., & Wheeler, P. (2016)
Experimental validation of a hybrid converter with enhanced switching ripple cancellation. IET Power Electronics, 9(12), 2360-2368. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2015.0984
This study presents the experimental evaluation of a proposed new three phase hybrid converter topology for medium voltage applications. The topology is based on the interconn...

Investigations in the Modeling and Control of a Medium-Voltage Hybrid Inverter System That Uses a Low-Voltage/Low-Power Rated Auxiliary Current Source Inverter

Journal Article
Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2016)
Investigations in the Modeling and Control of a Medium-Voltage Hybrid Inverter System That Uses a Low-Voltage/Low-Power Rated Auxiliary Current Source Inverter. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 4(1), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1109/jestpe.2015.2488631
Hybrid converters consist of a main inverter processing the bulk of the power with poor waveform performance and a fast and versatile auxiliary inverter to correct the distort...

A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI

Conference Proceeding
Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2014)
A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI. https://doi.org/10.1109/ecce.2014.6953779
Hybrid converters consist of a main inverter processing the bulk of the power with poor waveform performance and a fast and versatile auxiliary inverter to correct the distort...

A hybrid converter for medium voltage using a low-voltage current source active filter connected via a series capacitor

Conference Proceeding
Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2014)
A hybrid converter for medium voltage using a low-voltage current source active filter connected via a series capacitor. https://doi.org/10.1109/epe.2014.6911045
This paper proposes a new three phase hybrid inverter topology suitable for medium to high voltage inverter applications. The topology shown in Fig. 1 consists of a 3-phase VS...

A Hybrid Inverter Solution for Medium Voltage Applications using Series Capacitor and a CSI Active Power Filter (SC-APF)

Conference Proceeding
Papadopoulos, S., Klumpner, C., Wheeler, P., & Rashed, M. (2014)
A Hybrid Inverter Solution for Medium Voltage Applications using Series Capacitor and a CSI Active Power Filter (SC-APF). https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2014.0456
This paper proposes a new hybrid inverter solution for medium/high voltage applications that consists of a slow switching inverter using high voltage or series connected switc...

Comparison of multilevel PWM versus interleaved based sinewave shaping for two-stage current source inverters used in PV applications

Conference Proceeding
Papadopoulos, S., & Klumpner, C. (2013)
Comparison of multilevel PWM versus interleaved based sinewave shaping for two-stage current source inverters used in PV applications. https://doi.org/10.1109/epe.2013.6634633
This paper investigates the advantages of using interleaved based direct sinusoidal current shaping techniques as alternative to 5-level Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) when used...

Portable Solar Kiln

Report
Kinsley, A., Muhammad Sukki, F., Sola, P., Sellami, N., See, C. H., & Papadopoulos, S. (2022)
Portable Solar Kiln. Edinburgh Napier University
The aim of this project is to determine an optimum design and setup for a solar kiln. Throughout this project the overall design of the container will be addressed along with ...

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