Professor Paul Barendse
Drives, Power electronics and Condition Monitoring
MSc(Eng) PhD Cape Town MIEEE
Research Interests
- Electric Drives
- Power Electronics
- Condition Monitoring
- Renewable Energy and E-Mobility
Postgraduate Supervision
PhD
Mansour Hassan, Resilience and efficiency in refinery and petrochemical plants through advanced condition monitoring of critical assets
- Simisi William Mosamane, Online impedance spectroscopy for extraction of diagnostic data from an energy conversion system using power electronics
- Obiora-Okeke Chinazom Albert, Condition Monitoring of Wind Generators
Masters
Molomo Josias, DC Microgrids for EV Charging: Implementation of cost-effective techniques to assess battery/PV health
- Mukendi Alonso Kalonji, Condition Monitoring of Inverter-Fed Permanent Magnet Synchronous machines
- Mukwena Moserie Adolf, Fault Detection and Diagnosis Techniques for Wind Turbine Power Converters using Real-Time Monitoring Data
- Soobiah Revashan, Mulitport DC-DC converter with reduced current ripple
Current Undergraduate Teaching
- EEE2044S: Introduction to Power Engineering
- EEE3091F: Energy Conversion I