Outputs (17)

From Design to Deployment: A Comprehensive Review of Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Multi-Energy Systems for Residential Applications (2025)
Journal Article
Khan, T. A., Kahwash, F., Ahmed, J., Goh, K., & Papadopoulos, S. (2025). From Design to Deployment: A Comprehensive Review of Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Multi-Energy Systems for Residential Applications. Electronics, 14(11), Article 2221. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14112221

Multi-energy systems (MESs) use more than one energy vector to fulfil users' electrical, thermal, and cooling demands. This paper examines the recent developments in the design, optimisation, and implementation of MESs, focusing on residential applic... Read More about From Design to Deployment: A Comprehensive Review of Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Multi-Energy Systems for Residential Applications.

Priority Load Management for Improving Supply Reliability of Critical Loads in Healthcare Facilities Under Highly Unreliable Grids (2025)
Journal Article
Ibiam, N. H., Kahwash, F., & Ahmed, J. (2025). Priority Load Management for Improving Supply Reliability of Critical Loads in Healthcare Facilities Under Highly Unreliable Grids. Energies, 18(6), 1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18061343

Many developing countries suffer from unreliable grids and rolling blackouts on a daily basis. Losing electricity in healthcare facilities can be detrimental to human life and the required health services. Thus, it is often necessary to keep critical... Read More about Priority Load Management for Improving Supply Reliability of Critical Loads in Healthcare Facilities Under Highly Unreliable Grids.

Demand response trading in the British balancing mechanism - a probabilistic model to estimate feasibility for asset owners (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kahwash, F., & Tatlock, B. (2024, December). Demand response trading in the British balancing mechanism - a probabilistic model to estimate feasibility for asset owners. Presented at IET Powering Net Zero, Birmingham, UK

Recent reforms to the energy markets of Great Britain (GB) have aspired to reduce barriers for smaller assets to participate in grid services via a variety of routes. In this paper, we study the participation of a small asset owner in the British Bal... Read More about Demand response trading in the British balancing mechanism - a probabilistic model to estimate feasibility for asset owners.

Optimal DC link voltage stabilisation technique for a grid-connected PV system (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, T., Kahwash, F., Ahmed, J., & Goh, K. (2024, September). Optimal DC link voltage stabilisation technique for a grid-connected PV system. Paper presented at ECCE Europe 2024, Darmstadt, Germany

The utilisation of renewable energy (RES) powered microgrids has seen significant growth due to environmental concerns. These RES resources are often integrated with the grid through a DC link. Maintaining the DC link voltage at a specified level is... Read More about Optimal DC link voltage stabilisation technique for a grid-connected PV system.

Revolutionising orthopaedic implants—a comprehensive review on metal 3D printing with materials, design strategies, manufacturing technologies, and post-process machining advancements (2024)
Journal Article
Shaikh, M., Kahwash, F., Lu, Z., Alkhreisat, M., Mohammad, A., & Shyha, I. (2024). Revolutionising orthopaedic implants—a comprehensive review on metal 3D printing with materials, design strategies, manufacturing technologies, and post-process machining advancements. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 134, 1043-1076. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-024-14218-y

This paper conceptualises an understanding of advanced manufacturing methods to develop 3D-printed metallic orthopaedic implants, including a brief discussion on post-process machining. The significance of Metallic Additive Manufacturing (MAM) and it... Read More about Revolutionising orthopaedic implants—a comprehensive review on metal 3D printing with materials, design strategies, manufacturing technologies, and post-process machining advancements.

Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaikh, M., Kahwash, F., Lu, Z., Alkhreisat, M., & Shyha, I. (2023, September). Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels. Presented at International Conference on Additive Manufacturing in Products and Applications 2023, Zurich, Switzerland

Fracture fixation plates are osteosynthesis implants used to fix fractured bones in a human body. They are either left in the body or required to be removed after a bone healing period of 3–6 months. Recent trends focus on developing iron (Fe) based... Read More about Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels.

Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems (2023)
Journal Article
Kahwash, F., Barakat, B., & Maheri, A. (2023). Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems. Energy Conversion and Management, 293, Article 117460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117460

In multi-energy systems the full utilisation of the generated energy is a challenge. Integrating heat and electricity supply at the system level design could provide an opportunity to address this challenge. In this paper we introduce and examine two... Read More about Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems.

Solar Thermal Plant With Heat Recovery To Reduce Energy Consumption Of Continuous Textile Mercerisation Process (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kahwash, F., & Majeed, H. (2022, June). Solar Thermal Plant With Heat Recovery To Reduce Energy Consumption Of Continuous Textile Mercerisation Process. Presented at Advances in Renewable and Clean Energy Technologies, Online

The textile industry is resource intensive and environmentally polluting. Textile exporting countries, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh are facing strain on their resources. Woven fabrics, require several chemical treatment processes, which consumes l... Read More about Solar Thermal Plant With Heat Recovery To Reduce Energy Consumption Of Continuous Textile Mercerisation Process.

Optimising Electrical Power Supply Sustainability Using a Grid-Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy System—An NHS Hospital Case Study (2021)
Journal Article
Kahwash, F., Barakat, B., Taha, A., Abbasi, Q. H., & Imran, M. A. (2021). Optimising Electrical Power Supply Sustainability Using a Grid-Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy System—An NHS Hospital Case Study. Energies, 14(21), Article 7084. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14217084

This study focuses on improving the sustainability of electrical supply in the healthcare system in the UK, to contribute to current efforts made towards the 2050 net-zero carbon target. As a case study, we propose a grid-connected hybrid renewable e... Read More about Optimising Electrical Power Supply Sustainability Using a Grid-Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy System—An NHS Hospital Case Study.

Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities (2021)
Journal Article
Kahwash, F., Maheri, A., & Mahkamov, K. (2021). Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities. Energy Conversion and Management, 236, Article 114035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114035

The recent steep decline in the cost of PV panels and wind turbines provides an opportunity to utilise Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES) to fulfil thermal loads as well as the electrical demand. Two coupled system architectures are proposed and... Read More about Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities.