Professor Grahame Holmes

Position

Innovation Professor, Smart Energy Sys

School /
Work Unit

Electrical and Computer Eng

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 3874

grahame.holmes@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 10
Level: 7
Room: 1

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Science, Engineering & Health

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Qualifications

  • B.Eng
  • M.Eng. Sci
  • PhD, Monash University

Professional memberships

  • SMIEE
  • Cpeng, IEAust

Employment history

  • 1975-1980: SECV, Power Systems Control Engineer
  • 1981 – 1983: Lecturer, Electrical Engineering Dept, University of Melbourne
  • 1984 – 2010: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
  • 2010 – present: Innovation Professor – Smart Energy, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University

Professional interests and links to the industry

Professional Affiliations

  • Chartered Professional Engineer, Institution of Engineers Australia,
  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • Member-at-large, Adcom, IEEE Power Electronics Society

Research

Research Interests

  • Smart Grid Technologies and Applications
  • Power Electronic Converter Modulation and Control
  • Converter Current Regulation
  • Active Power Electronic Filters
  • Resonant Converters
  • Current Source Converters
  • Multilevel Converters
  • Digital Control of Power Electronic Converters

Industrial Collaborations

  • 25 years experience developing power electronic converters for specialist industrial applications.
  • Established and managed Power Electronics Group at Monash University for 10 years to provide industry development and consulting services for power electronic converters in traction, power quality measurement, PV inverters
  • Provide specialist consulting to solve industry problems with power electronic conversion systems
  • Expert witness for electrical and electronic technology applications

Particular Industry Development Projects

  • Development of a range of leading edge DSP based power electronic inverters and battery chargers for railway traction applications, ranging in power from 500W up to 30 KVA.
  • Design of an intrinsically safe 12V power supply for mining applications.
  • Development of a range of high accuracy CT and PT test systems, for use in the electrical power industry.
  • Development of a range of DSP based inverter controller cards to control voltage source inverters over a power range of 5 kVA to 250 kVA. These controllers have been used both by other universities and in commercial inverter systems.
  • Major Grants
  • “Optimum Control of Modular Multilevel Power Electronic Converters for Electrical Distribution Networks”, ARC Discovery Grant, 2006-2008, $325,000 total (sole Chief Investigator)
  • “Improving Power Quality in Electrical Distribution Systems using Multiple and/or Distributed Power Electronics Converters”, ARC Large Grant 2000-2002, $224,000 total (co-Chief Investigator)
  • “Development Design and Experimental Demonstration of a Power Electronic Fault Current Limiter for Electricity Distribution System - Stage 3”, Final Stage of ARC Linkage Grant, 1996-2002, $428,000 total funding over the project life, Industry Partner Funding $110,000 in 2002 for final stage.

Publications

  • PhD thesis
  • "A Generalised Approach to the Modulation and Control of Hard Switched Converters", D.G. Holmes, PhD thesis, Monash University.
  • Books
  • "Pulse Width Modulation for Power Converters – Principles and Practice", D.G. Holmes and T.A. Lipo, IEEE/Wiley, 2003.
  • Selected Publications from over 150 Conference and Journal papers
  • S.A.S Grogan, B.P. McGrath & D.G. Holmes, “High Quality Voltage Regulation of a Five-level Current Source Inverter”, IEEE Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), Sapporo Japan, 2010 , pp839 – 846.
  • D. Segaran,, B.P. McGrath & D.G. Holmes, “Adaptive Dynamic Control of a Bi-directional DC-DC Converter”, 2010 Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Atlanta, 2010 , pp1442 – 1449.
  • D.G. Holmes, T. A. Lipo, B.P. McGrath, W.Y. Kong, “Optimized Design of Stationary Frame Three Phase AC Current Regulators”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 24, No. 1, Nov. 2009, pp2417– 2426.
  • B. P. McGrath & D. G. Holmes, “Analytical Determination of the Capacitor Voltage Balancing Dynamics for Three-Phase Flying Capacitor Converters”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 45, No. 4, July-Aug 2009, pp1425 – 143.
  • B.P. McGrath, T. Meynard, G. Gateau, D.G. Holmes, “Optimal Modulation of Flying Capacitor and Stacked Multicell Converters Using a State Machine Decoder”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 22, No. 2,  Mar 2007, pp508 – 516.
  • B.P. McGrath, D.G. Holmes, P.J. McGoldrick, A.D. McIver, “Design of a Soft-Switched 6-kW Battery Charger for Traction Applications”,IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 22,  No. 4,  July 2007, pp1136-1144.
  • T. Bruckner & D.G. Holmes, “Optimal Pulse-Width Modulation for Three-Level Inverters”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan. 2005, pp82 – 89.
  • P.C. Loh, D.G. Holmes & T.A. Lipo,“Implementation and Control of Distributed PWM Cascaded Multilevel Inverters With Minimal Harmonic Distortion and Common-Mode Voltage”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan. 2005, pp90 – 99.
  • G.H. Bode, Poh Chiang Loh, M.J. Newman, D.G. Holmes, “An Improved Robust Predictive Current Regulation Algorithm”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 41, No. 6, Nov. 2005, pp1720 – 1733.
  • M.J. Newman, D.G. Holmes, J.G. Nielsen, F. Blaabjerg, “A Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) with Selective Harmonic Compensation at Medium Voltage Level”; IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 41, No. 6, Nov. 2005, pp1744 – 1753.
  • P.C. Loh, D.G. Holmes, Y. Fukuta& T.A. Lipo, “A Reduced Common Mode Carrier-Based Modulation Strategies for Multilevel Inverters”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan 2004, pp192-200.
  • M. Newman & D.G. Holmes, “Delta Operator Digital Filters for High Performance Inverter Applications”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 1, Jan 2003, pp447-454.
  • P.C. Loh & D.G. Holmes, “A Multidimensional Variable Band Flux Modulator for Three and Four Phase-Leg Voltage Source Inverters”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 2, Mar. 2003, pp628-63.
  • E. Twining & D.G. Holmes, “Grid Current Regulation of a Three-Phase Voltage Source with an LCL Input Filter”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 3, May 2003, pp888-895.
  • D.N. Zmood & D.G. Holmes, “Stationary Frame Current Regulation of PWM Inverters with Zero Steady-State Error”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 3, May 2003, pp814-822.
  • P.C. Loh, D.G. Holmes, Y. Fukuta & T.A. Lipo, “Reduced common-mode modulation strategies for cascaded multilevel inverters”,IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications,  Vol. 39, No. 5, Sept. 2003, pp1386-1395.
  • B.P McGrath, D.G. Holmes & T.A. Lipo, “Optimized space vector switching sequences for multilevel inverters”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 6, Nov. 2003, pp1293-1301.
  • M. Newman & D.G. Holmes, “Delta Operator Digital Filters for High Performance Inverter Applications”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 1, Jan 2003, pp447-454.
  • P.C. Loh & D.G. Holmes, “A Variable Band Flux/Charge Modulator for VSI and CSI Modulation”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 38, No. 3, May 2002, pp695-705.
  • B.P. McGrath & D.G. Holmes, “Multicarrier PWM Strategies for Multilevel Inverters”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 49, No. 4, July 2002, pp858 – 867.
  • M.N. Newman, D.N. Zmood & D.G. Holmes, “Stationary Frame Harmonic Reference Generation for Active Filter Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 38, No. 6, Nov. 2002, pp1591-1599.
  • D.G. Holmes & B.P. McGrath, “Opportunities for Harmonic Cancellation with Carrier Based PWM For Two-Level and Multi-Level Cascaded Inverters”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 37, No. 2, Mar. 2001, pp574-582.
  • D.N. Zmood, D.G. Holmes & G.H Bode, “Frequency Domain Analysis of Three Phase Linear Current Regulators”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 37, No. 2, Mar. 2001, pp601-610.
  • D. G. Holmes, “The significance of zero space vector placement for carrier based PWM schemes”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Applicat., Vol. 32, No. 5, 1996, pp. 1122 – 1129.