Akin A.

Akin A.

United Kingdom
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An engineer with high level of energy, drive and passion combined with total commitment…

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Experience

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    Siemens

    Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England, United Kingdom

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    United Kingdom

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    Sunderland, United Kingdom

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    Sunderland, United Kingdom

Education

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    TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY

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    * Modules include:

    Signal Conditioning and Data Processing
    Robust Control System
    Digital Control and Implementation
    Identification and Model Predictive Control
    Petroleum and Hydrocarbon Operations
    Project Management and Enterprise

    * MSc Thesis: Model Predictive Control of Boiler-Turbine Systems

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    Activities and Societies: USSU-volunteer, University of Sunderland Nigerian Society, Campus Watch, Eco Champion

    * 3 years study of Electrical/Electronic Engineering

    Key modules:
    *SCADA and PLCs, Electronic Systems, Maths and Statistics, Electrical Power Systems and Machine, Control Systems, Project Management Planning and Control, Design, Drawing and Practical Skills, Industrial Studies, Materials and Manufacturing Systems.

    * Final year project: Temperature Management of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

    * Elected as student representative for academic years 2012/2013 and…

    * 3 years study of Electrical/Electronic Engineering

    Key modules:
    *SCADA and PLCs, Electronic Systems, Maths and Statistics, Electrical Power Systems and Machine, Control Systems, Project Management Planning and Control, Design, Drawing and Practical Skills, Industrial Studies, Materials and Manufacturing Systems.

    * Final year project: Temperature Management of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

    * Elected as student representative for academic years 2012/2013 and 2014/2015

    * Elected as Event Coordinator at the University of Sunderland Nigerian Society, also appointed as Electoral Committee Chairman for the same society.

    * Volunteered as Eco Champion - promoting events to encourage fellow students to recycle waste and be more conscious of their environment

    * Worked part-time for the university as Residential Student Assistant. Also worked with the university's record office as an Enrolment Support Officer.

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Volunteer Experience

  • Eco Champion

    University of Sunderland Student Union

    - Present 11 years 4 months

    Environment

    • Disseminated information to other residents within own flat and flats around the halls of residence
    • Supported and encouraged others to make small environmental behavioural changes through own positive behaviour
    • Participated in inter halls environmental/sustainability competitions and promotions (including the Greenest Flat competition and Halls League Table)
    • Recorded areas of concern and improvement with regards to energy and resource wastage

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    Student Representative

    University of Sunderland

    - 10 months

    Education

    • Attended and participated in University/Union meetings.
    • Recognised student issues and raised them at relevant meetings such as Module/Programme Board of Studies meeting and Student council meetings.
    • Fed back information to fellow students.

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    STEM ambassador

    STEM Ambassadors

    - Present 4 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

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    Young Professional Ambassador

    Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

    - Present 3 years 11 months

    Science and Technology

Publications

  • An Integrated Approach to Adaptive Control and Supervisory Optimisation of HVAC Control Systems for Demand Response Applications

    MDPI

    Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems account for a large percentage of energy consumption in buildings. Implementation of efficient optimisation and control mechanisms has been identified as one crucial way to help reduce and shift HVAC systems’ energy consumption to both save economic costs and foster improved integration with renewables. This has led to the development of various control techniques, some of which have produced promising results. However, very few of these…

    Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems account for a large percentage of energy consumption in buildings. Implementation of efficient optimisation and control mechanisms has been identified as one crucial way to help reduce and shift HVAC systems’ energy consumption to both save economic costs and foster improved integration with renewables. This has led to the development of various control techniques, some of which have produced promising results. However, very few of these control mechanisms have fully considered important factors such as electricity time of use (TOU) price information, occupant thermal comfort, computational complexity, and nonlinear HVAC dynamics to design a demand response schema. In this paper, a novel two-stage integrated approach for such is proposed and evaluated. A model predictive control (MPC)-based optimiser for supervisory setpoint control is integrated with a digital parameter-adaptive controller for use in a demand response/demand management environment. The optimiser is designed to shift the heating load (and hence electrical load) to off-peak periods by minimising a trade-off between thermal comfort and electricity costs, generating a setpoint trajectory for the inner loop HVAC tracking controller. The tracking controller provides HVAC model information to the outer loop for calibration purposes. By way of calibrated simulations, it was found that significant energy saving and cost reduction could be achieved in comparison to a traditional on/off or variable HVAC control system with a fixed setpoint temperature.

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Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Yoruba

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

    Full Member

    - Present
  • Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

    Member

    - Present
  • Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE)

    Affliate Member

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