Dr Agusti Egea Alvarez

Senior Lecturer

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Dr Agustí Egea-Àlvarez is a Senior 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

Best Paper wind integration workshop 2019: Recipient; 2020
Teaching Excellence Awards - Best in Faculty – Engineering: Recipient; 2019

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Publications

Innovative energy management system for MVDC networks with black-start capabilities: Alassi Abdulrahman, Ahmed Khaled, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Ellabban Omar; Energies Vol 14 (2021); https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082100
Addressing frequency control challenges in future low-inertia power systems : a Great Britain perspective: Hong Qiteng, Khan Md Asif Uddin, Henderson Callum, Egea Alvarez Agusti, Tzelepis Dimitrios, Booth Campbell; Engineering (2021)
Operating a Zero-Carbon GB Power System : Implications for Scotland: Nedd Marcel, Browell Jethro, Egea-Alvarez Agusti, Bell Keith, Hamilton Robert, Wang Shuren, Brush Susan; (2020); https://doi.org/10.7488/era/756
Robustness testing of two impedance estimation techniques: Kervyn Mathieu, Ahmed Khaled, Egea-Alvarez Agusti; 10th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (2020)
Vector control of a single phase voltage source converter for the supply of inertia to weak grids: Henderson Callum, McNeill Neville, Holliday Derrick, Egea Alvarez Agusti; The 10th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (2020)
Validating grid-forming capabilities of hybrid power park technologies in future OFTO networks: Dysko Adam, Ierna Richard, Yu Mengran, Egea-Alvarez Agusti, Avras Andreas, Li Can, Horley Mark, Booth Campbell, Urdal Helge; IET Renewable Power Generation (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

Energies (Journal): Peer reviewer; 2021
9th IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) 2020: Participant; 27/9/2020
Challenges and potential solutions for power systems with high penetration of power converters: a British perspective: Speaker; 20/4/2020
Presentation on Grid Forming Converters and future trends: Speaker; 25/3/2020
CIGRE working group B4.84 (External organisation): Advisor; 2020
Energies (Journal): Peer reviewer; 2020

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Projects

Sustainable impact by design: a pilot study of effective STEM dissemination for hard-to-reach audiences: Essex, Jane (Principal Investigator) Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Co-investigator) Li, Rui (Co-investigator) Somorin, Tosin (Co-investigator) Hendry, Martyn (Co-investigator) Yue, Hong (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Ivaturi, Aruna (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Co-investigator); STEM Equals and RKES funding £10,000; 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Coffey, Sophie: Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator) Li, Rui (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator) Coffey, Sophie (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
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-2023
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 - 30-Jan-2021
Industrial Case Account - University of Strathclyde 2019 / S190404-108: Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2024
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

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building

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