The Renewable & Sustainable Energies Research Group (RASERG) was established in April 2003, at Sultan Qaboos University, College of Engineering.
The group is operated under the attached policies.
Our Mission
The mission and objectives of the Research Group are as follows:
- Provide a convenient medium for staff members sharing similar scientific interests in the area of renewable and sustainable energies to exchange information and work jointly on activities and projects undertaken by RASERG.
- Establish links relevant to renewable and sustainable energies between SQU and National/International organizations.
- Enhance research in the area of renewable and sustainable energies for the undergraduate and postgraduate engineering programs.
- Generate funding for carrying out and improving research in the area of renewable and sustainable energies.
- Enhance the community scientific culture with regards to the use of renewable and sustainable energies in Oman through organization of scientific activities such as conferences, seminars, workshops and short-courses.
Members
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The RASERG Officers for the academic year 2008-2009 are:
- Group Coordinator Officer: Dr. Adel Gastli (College of Engineering-ECE)
- Publication & Publicity Officer: Dr. Nabeel Rawahi (College of Engineering-MIE)
- Executive Officer: Dr. Amer Al-Habsi (College of Engineering-ECE)
The RASERG actual membership is as follows:
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
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Electrical & Computer Eng.
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Mechanical & Industrial Eng.
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Civil & Architectural Eng.
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Petroleum & Chemical Eng.
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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
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Physics
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Chemistry
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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL & MARINE SCIENCES
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Natural Resource Economics
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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Geography
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Expertise
The Expertise Available in the research group can be summarized by the following item:
- Analyses, design and modeling of PV cells/panels/modules/arrays.
- Optimization of PV system design using soft computing tools such as fuzzy logic and ANN approaches.
- Design, analyses and testing of power converters with high efficiency.
- Feasibility and Economical study of applicability of renewable energy systems.
- Optimization of PV/Wind systems connections to Power grids.
- Application of PV systems in electric vehicles.
- Solar thermal applications.
- Wind turbine design and operation analysis.
- Forecasting of energy utilization and peak electric load forecasting.
- Electric energy conservation, demand-side management.
- Reduction in transmission and distribution losses.
- Mitigation of environmental impacts from energy and power sector through integrated resource planning.
- Electricity generation expansion planning.
- Electric energy tariff formulation based on long-run marginal cost and cost accounting approaches .
- Energy investment planning.
- Decentralized applications of renewable energy technologies and distributed energy resources in rural and remote areas.
- Local integrated resource planning.
- Energy policy and planning analyses.
Facilities
The College has several equipment and software facilities that can be used for research and development of renewable & sustainable energy systems. Among these facilities we can list the following:
PV related available equipment:
- Solar cells and panels
- Controllers
- Power Inverters
- Sun trackers
- Batteries & Chargers
- Test benches for Solar Panels and DC-DC and DC-AC converters.
Contact Information
Telephone : +968-24141373
FAX : +968-24413416/ +968-24413454
Postal address
Sultan Qaboos University
College of Engineering
P.O. Box 33, Al-Khodh,
Muscat 123, Sultanate of Oman
Electronic mail:
General Information: Dr. Adel Gastli gastli@squ.edu.om