Siamak Karimi has submitted the following academic thesis as a part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Marine Technology
«Shore-to-Ship Charging Systems for Battery-Electric Ships: Power Systems Architecture, Performance Analysis and Future Trends»
The Faculty has appointed the following Assessment Committee to assess the thesis:
Professor Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh, McMaster University, Canada (1. opponent)
Dr. Alf Kåre Ådnanes, ABB Marine and Ports, Norway (2. opponent)
Professor Bjørn Egil Asbjørnslett, NTNU
Professor Bjørn Egil Asbjørnslett, Department of Marine Technology, has been appointed Administrator of the Committee. The Committee recommends that the thesis is worthy of being publicly defended for the PhD degree.
The trial lecture took place on December 19th, 2022, at 10:15 in Auditorium T1, Jonsvannsveien 82, Moholt on the following prescribed subject:
“On the use and management of hybrid fuel cell and energy storage electric propulsion systems for ships: Present and predict availability of technologies for marine fuel cells; Present aspects on design optimization of hybrid electric propulsion power plants with fuel cells and energy storage; Present and discuss the way that dynamic reliability could be effectively integrated to the energy management in real-time.”
The public defence of the thesis takes place on December 19th, 2022, at 13:15 in Auditorium T1, Jonsvannsveien 82, Moholt.
The doctoral work has been carried out at the Department of Marine Technology.
Siamak has been a PhD student from 2019 to 2022, contributing to SFI Smart Maritime WP3 Power Systems and Fuel
Associate Professor Mehdi Zadeh, Department of Marine Technology, has been the candidate’s main supervisor. Professor Roger Skjetne, Department of Marine Technology and Associate Professor Jon Are Wold Suul, Department of Engineering Cybernetics has been the candidate’s co-supervisors.
The thesis resulted in the following main publications in high-quality peer-review journals:
- S. Karimi, M. Zadeh, and J. A. Suul, "Operation-Based Reliability Assessment of Shore-to-Ship Charging Systems Including On-Shore Batteries," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2023. doi: 10.1109/TIA.2023.3258419.
- S. Karimi, M. Zadeh, and J. A. Suul, "A multi‐layer framework for energy efficiency assessment of shore‐to‐ship fast charging systems including onshore batteries," IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1049/els2.12052.
- S. Karimi, M. Zadeh, and J. A. Suul, "A Multilayer Framework for Reliability Assessment of Shore-to-Ship Fast Charging System Design," IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 3028-3040, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TTE.2021.3105516.
- S. Karimi, M. Zadeh and J. A. Suul, "Shore Charging for Plug-In Battery-Powered Ships: Power System Architecture, infrastructure, and Control," in IEEE Electrification Magazine, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 47-61, Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/MELE.2020.3005699.
