Dr Agusti Egea Alvarez

Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Dr Agustí Egea-Àlvarez is Strathclyde Chancellor’s fellow (Lecturer) at the electronic & electrical engineering department and member of the PEDEC (Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Conversion) group. He obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona in 2008, 2010 and 2014 respectively. In 2015 he was a Marie Curie fellow in the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI). In 2016 he joined Siemens Gamesa as converter control engineer working on grid forming controllers and alternative HVDC schemes for offshore wind farms. He is a member of IEEE, IET and has been involved in several CIGRE working groups.

Prizes and awards

Teaching Excellence Awards - Best in Faculty – Engineering: Recipient; 2019

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Publications

Parameter design oriented analysis of the current control stability of the weak-grid-tied VSC: Wu Guanglu, Sun Huadong, Zhang Xi, Egea-Alvarez Agusti, Zhao Bing, Xu Shiyun, Wang Shanshan, Zhou Xiaoxin; IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2020); https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRD.2020.3009517
Techno-economic assessment of energy storage technologies for inertia response and frequency support from wind farms: Beltran Hector, Harrison Sam, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Xu Lie; Energies Vol 13 (2020); https://doi.org/10.3390/en13133421
A new fast-acting backup protection strategy for embedded MVDC links in future distribution networks: Hunter Lewis C, Booth Campbell D, Egea Alvarez Agusti, Dyśko Adam, Finney Stephen J, Junyent-Ferré Adrià; IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2020); https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRD.2020.2995479
The behaviour of virtual synchronous machine (VSM) based converters in front of non-saturable faults: Yang Zhenkun, Egea Alvarez Agusti, Dysko Adam; The 15th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection (2020)
Assessment of grid-connected wind turbines with an inertia response by considering internal dynamics: Henderson Callum, Vozikis Dimitrios, Holliday Derrick, Bian Xiaoyan, Egea-Álvarez Agustí; Energies Vol 13 (2020); https://doi.org/10.3390/en13051038
High Penetration of Power Electronic Interfaced Power Sources and the Potential Contribution of Grid Forming Converters: Christensen Peter, Andersen Gert Karmisholt, Seidel Matthias, Bolik Sigrid, Engelken Sönke, Knueppel Thyge, Krontiris Athanasios, Wuerflinger Klaus, Bülo Thorsten, Jahn Jörg, Ndreko Mario, Salehi Saeed, Theologitis Ioannis, Weise Bernd, Urdal Helge, Egea Alvarez Agusti, Roscoe Andrew J, Fortmann Jens; (2020)

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Research interests

His current research interests are:

- Grid forming and Virtual Synchronous Machine converter control algorithms.

- Control of Voltage Source Converters to weak grids and low inertia systems.

- Alternative HVDC connection schemes for offshore wind farm.

- Control and operation of DC-DC converters for HVDC systems.

Professional activities

Control of Voltage Source Converters connected to weak grids: Speaker; 23/5/2019
HVDC systems and grid integration challenges: Speaker; 4/12/2018
Connection of VSC-HVDC to weak grids: Speaker; 12/11/2018

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Projects

Sustainable Security of Supply in a Low Carbon Electricity System: Climate XChange: Bell, Keith (Principal Investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 29-Jan-2021
Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Henderson, Callum: Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator) Holliday, Derrick (Co-investigator) Henderson, Callum (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2022
EPSRC vacation bursary - StrathPEARL: Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator); Summer student EPSRC funded to design a prototype of StrathPEARL; 03-Jan-2019 - 09-Jan-2019
UK HVDC Centre Phase II Converter Interaction: Xu, Lie (Principal Investigator) Ased, Grain Philip (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
Laboratory Testing of Battery-VSM arrangement: Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | Harrison, Sam: Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator) Harrison, Sam (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2021

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building

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