REAPER Lab congratulates Ms.Fatima Al-Janahi for successfully defending her MS thesis, “Characterizing Photovoltaic System Arc-Faults.” Ms. Al-Janahi’s research studied the electrical characteristics of arcs in photovoltaic dc systems. She developed a computer-controlled mechatronics testbed that she used to precisely generate a large collection of electric arcs in which she investigated the effect of electrode material and geometry, pull-apart separation distance and velocity, and electrical voltage and current on the arc formed between the electrodes. Her contributions include the design details of the hardware and software as well as analysis of the resulting data. She plans to publish the raw data and analyzed data so that other researchers and arc fault detection designers can benefit from her curated dataset.
Ms. Al-Janahi received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in Qatar in May 2020. She received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering in the REAPER lab at Texas A&M University with a focus area on characterization of electrical arc faults in photovoltaic systems. She is currently a Teaching Assistant with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Qatar University.
