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