Savvas Papadopoulos
savvas papadopoulos

Dr Savvas Papadopoulos

Lecturer

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

 

Date


18 results

Actual Design Space Methodology for Preliminary Design Analysis of Switched Reluctance Machines

Journal Article
Rocca, R., Giulii Capponi, F., De Donato, G., Papadopoulos, S., Caricchi, F., Rashed, M., & Galea, M. (2021)
Actual Design Space Methodology for Preliminary Design Analysis of Switched Reluctance Machines. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 57(1), 397-408. https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2020.3038352
In the design of modern, high-performance switched reluctance machines, the highly restrictive sets of constraints and requirements severely limit the number of feasible solut...

Design Trade-Offs and Feasibility Assessment of a Novel One-Body, Laminated-Rotor Flywheel Switched Reluctance Machine

Journal Article
Rocca, R., Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Prassinos, G., Giulii Capponi, F., & Galea, M. (2020)
Design Trade-Offs and Feasibility Assessment of a Novel One-Body, Laminated-Rotor Flywheel Switched Reluctance Machine. Energies, 13(22), https://doi.org/10.3390/en13225857
In a bid to respond to the challenges being faced in the installation of flywheel-based electric energy storage systems (EESSs) in customer-side facilities, namely high safety...

A One-Body, Laminated-Rotor Flywheel Switched Reluctance Machine for Energy Storage: Design Trade-Offs

Conference Proceeding
Rocca, R., Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Prassinos, G., Capponi, F. G., & Galea, M. (2020)
A One-Body, Laminated-Rotor Flywheel Switched Reluctance Machine for Energy Storage: Design Trade-Offs. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). https://doi.org/10.1109/eeeic/icpseurope49358.2020.9160512
A critical aspect of distributed generation systems focuses on the installation of Electrical Energy Storage Systems in customer-side facilities. In this scenario, flywheel te...

Considerations on the Development of an Electric Drive for a Secondary Flight Control Electromechanical Actuator

Journal Article
Giangrande, P., Galassini, A., Papadopoulos, S., Al-Timimy, A., Lo Calzo, G., Degano, M., …Galea, M. (2019)
Considerations on the Development of an Electric Drive for a Secondary Flight Control Electromechanical Actuator. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2019.2907231
The more electric aircraft concept aims to improve the fuel consumption, the weight and both the maintenance and operating costs of the aircraft, by promoting the use of elect...

Optimal Advance Angle for Aided Maximum-Speed-Node Design of Switched Reluctance Machines

Journal Article
Rocca, R., Giulii Capponi, F., Papadopoulos, S., De Donato, G., Rashed, M., & Galea, M. (2020)
Optimal Advance Angle for Aided Maximum-Speed-Node Design of Switched Reluctance Machines. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 35(2), 775-785. https://doi.org/10.1109/tec.2019.2959823
In the design processes of Switched Reluctance Machines that operate in wide constant power speed ranges, the maximum power available at maximum speed must be evaluated for ev...

Feasibility Study of Integrating Renewable Energy Generation System in Sark Island to Reduce Energy Generation Cost and CO2 Emissions

Journal Article
Robinson, S., Papadopoulos, S., Jadraque Gago, E., & Muneer, T. (2019)
Feasibility Study of Integrating Renewable Energy Generation System in Sark Island to Reduce Energy Generation Cost and CO2 Emissions. Energies, 12(24), 4722. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12244722
The island of Sark, located in the English Channel, has endured an electricity distribution crisis for the past few years, resulting in high electricity costs almost six times...

SMART: Modular Architecture for Reliable Transportation

Conference Proceeding
Papadopoulos, S., Galassini, A., Ruksnaitis, L., Farhat, N., Kiselychnyk, O., Midgley, W., & Degano, M. (2019)
SMART: Modular Architecture for Reliable Transportation. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8926931
This paper proposes a new ultra-reliable architecture for fully electric propulsion primarily aimed at the automotive sector. The system considers a direct drive arrangement, ...

Design of PMSM for EMA Employed in Secondary Flight Control Systems

Conference Proceeding
Giangrande, P., Al-Timimy, A., Galassini, A., Papadopoulos, S., Degano, M., & Galea, M. (2019)
Design of PMSM for EMA Employed in Secondary Flight Control Systems. https://doi.org/10.1109/esars-itec.2018.8607467
The more electric aircraft (MEA) initiative aims to improve weight, fuel consumption and maintenance costs of the aircraft, by increasing the use of electric power in actuatio...

Multi-Port Power Conversion Systems for the More Electric Aircraft

Conference Proceeding
Gu, C., Zhang, H., Buticchi, G., Sala, G., Galassini, A., Papadopoulos, S., & Degano, M. (2018)
Multi-Port Power Conversion Systems for the More Electric Aircraft. https://doi.org/10.1109/iecon.2018.8592915
In the framework of the More Electric Aircraft (MEA), weight reduction and energy efficiency constitute the key figures. In addition to these requirements, the safety and the ...

Analytical Approach for the Identification of an Optimal Design Space for Switched Reluctance Machines

Conference Proceeding
Rocca, R., Capponi, F. G., De Donato, G., Rashed, M., Papadopoulos, S., & Galea, M. (2018)
Analytical Approach for the Identification of an Optimal Design Space for Switched Reluctance Machines. https://doi.org/10.1109/icelmach.2018.8507017
This work presents a rigorous approach to simplify the design optimization process for Switched Reluctance Machines. First of all, the dimension of the Design Space is found t...

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