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REAPERlab awarded a grant by the Qatar National Research Fund to develop a fault-tolerant, power quality compensator for use at the grid-edge in electrical distribution systems.

by ReaperLab | Jan 18, 2021 | Research Projects

Dr. Robert Balog along with collaborators Dr. Wesam Rohouma (College of North Atlantic at Qatar), Dr. Miroslav Begovic (Texas A&M University, College Station) and collaborators at Kahramaa were awarded a NPRP cycle 13 project to develop technology designed to...

Dr. Morcos Metry presents a research paper at the 2nd International Conference on Photovoltaic Science and Technology (PVCON).

by ReaperLab | Nov 30, 2020 | Conference, Graduate Students, IEEE, Papers, Postdocs, Researchers

Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Morcos Metry and Ph.D. students Ms. Sawsan Shukri and Mr. Lance Alpuerto presented their paper entitled “Sizing of Differential Power Processing Converters Based on In-Situ Meteorological Data for Non-Planar Photovoltaic...

Dr. Wesam Rohouma presents a research paper at the 2nd International Conference on Photovoltaic Science and Technology (PVCON).

by ReaperLab | Nov 30, 2020 | Conference, Graduate Students, IEEE, Papers, Postdocs, Researchers

Dr. Wesam Rohouma, Professor Robert S. Balog, Ph.D. student Mr. Aaqib Peerzada and Professor Miroslav Begovic presented their paper entitled “Voltage Profile Enhancement Using Capacitor-less D-STATCOM to Increase PV Penetration in Distribution Network Under Transient...

Professor Balog, Director of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Power Electronics Lab at Texas A&M University, reaches a career milestone of being a named inventor on twenty US Patents.

by ReaperLab | Sep 29, 2020 | Award, Career

The REAPERlab congratulates Prof.Balog on his milestone achievement of being a named inventor on twenty US Patents. Most of these patents have been assigned or licensed to the industry and have already been or are currently being commercialized. Dr. Balog commented,...

Professor Balog and Dr. Zhan Wang named as inventors on a new US Patent for Arc Fault Detection.

by ReaperLab | Sep 29, 2020 | Graduate Students

Professor Balog and Dr. Zhan Wang were awarded US Patent 10,790,799 on September 29, 2020 for their invention entitled “Systems and Methods for Determining Arc Events Using Wavelet Decomposition and Support Vector Machines.” The patented technology was...

Dr. Balog gives an IEEE Power Electronics Society Distinguished Lecture to the student branch chapters in Brazil.

by ReaperLab | Jun 20, 2020 | Distinguished Lecture, IEEE, PELS, Seminar / Talk

As part of the IEEE Power Electronics Distinguished Lecture Series, Professor Balog, REAPERlab Director, gave a webinar talk on June 20, 2020 to the combined Brazil Power Electronics Society (PELS) student branch chapters entitled “Opportunities and Challenges...

Dr Balog presents a talk on arc fault and flash detection in photovoltaic and direct-current wiring systems.

by ReaperLab | Dec 2, 2019 | Conference, Meetings, Seminar / Talk

Professor Balog presented a talk entitled “Arc Fault and Flash Detection in Photovoltaic and Building Wiring Systems – Detecting Electrical Safety Problems, Making the Electrical System Safer for the Customer,” at the 2019 Workshop on Safe and Reliable...

Moustafa Raslan presented a paper at the SGRE conference in Doha, QATAR

by ReaperLab | Nov 20, 2019 | Conference, Graduate Students, IEEE, Papers, Researchers

M.S. student Moustafa Raslan presented a paper, co-authored with Dr. Robert Balog, entitled “Bi-stable Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Switch for PV Skin” at the SGRE 2019 Conference in Doha, Qatar on 20th November 2019. In this paper, a design concept for a bi-stable...

Dr. Wesam Rohouma presented a paper at the SGRE conference in Doha, QATAR

by ReaperLab | Nov 19, 2019 | Conference, IEEE, Papers, Postdocs, Researchers

Dr. Wesam Rohouma presented a paper co-authored with Dr. Robert Balog, Ph.D. student Mr. Aaqib Ahmad Peerzada, and Dr. Miroslav M. Begovic entitled “Fault-Tolerant D-STATCOM Based Matrix Converter” at the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable...

Dr. Wesam Rohouma presented a paper at the GCC Power 2019 Conference & Exhibition in Muscat, OMAN

by ReaperLab | Oct 29, 2019 | Conference, Graduate Students, Papers, Postdocs, Researchers

Dr. Wesam Rohouma presented a paper co-authored with Dr. Robert Balog, Ph.D. student Mr. Aaqib Ahmad Peerzada, and Dr. Miroslav M. Begovic entitled “Use of D-STATCOM for Solid State LED Lamp Harmonic Power Mitigation” at the GCC Power 2019 Conference & Exhibition...
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