Professor Agusti Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Dr Agustí Egea-Àlvarez is a Professor at the electronic & electrical engineering department and a member of the PEDEC (Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Conversion) group. Also, he was a holder of a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship with ScottishPower between 2022 and 2024.
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.
Prize And Awards
- 'Sustainable Impact by Design' Team, Strathclyde Medal
- Recipient
- 2023
- Best Paper wind integration workshop 2019
- Recipient
- 2020
- Teaching Excellence Awards - Best in Faculty – Engineering
- Recipient
- 2019
Publications
- Investigation of grid-forming and grid-following converter multi-machine interactions under different control architectures
- Benedetti Luke, Paspatis Alexandros, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Hatziargyriou Nikos
- Electric Power Systems Research Vol 234 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110813
- A negative sequence current injection (NSCI)-based active protection scheme for islanded microgrids
- Yang Zhenkun, Dyśko Adam, Egea Àlvarez Agustí
- International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Vol 158 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2024.109965
- Review of multiport power converters for distribution network applications
- Harrison Sam, Soltoswski Bartosz, Pepiciello Antonio, Henao Andres Camilo, Farag Ahmed Y, Beza Mebtu, Xu Lie, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Cheah-Mañé Marc, Gomis-Bellmunt Oriol
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol 203 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114742
- Analysis of optimal grid-forming converter penetration in AC connected offshore wind farms
- Henderson Callum, Egea-Alvarez Agusti, Xu Lie
- International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems Vol 157 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2024.109851
- Control and power balancing of an off-grid wind turbine with co-located electrolyzer
- Timmers Victor, Egea Alvarez Agusti, Gkountaras Aris, Xu Lie
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, pp. 1-12 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2024.3418043
- Multi-objective optimization and comparison of DC/DC converters for offshore wind turbines
- Timmers Victor, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Gkountaras Aris, Xu Lie
- IEEE Access Vol 12, pp. 81236-81251 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3411152
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
- CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2022
- Demystifying grid forming converters: challenges and opportunities of a new converter control technology
- Speaker
- 6/12/2021
- Demystifying grid forming converters challenges and opportunities of a new converter control technology
- Speaker
- 12/2021
- Power Electronics: The silent technology adding flexibility to the network
- Speaker
- 9/2021
- Energies (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
- 9th IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) 2020
- Participant
- 27/9/2020
Projects
- SIF-INSIGHT Alpha
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator)
- 01-Dec-2023 - 31-Mar-2024
- Off-grid EV Charging Infrastructure
- Ahmed, Khaled (Principal Investigator) Bayram, I. Safak (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 31-Mar-2024
- BLADE - Alpha phase
- Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Khaled (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- Linked to project RKES 221702
- 01-Oct-2023 - 31-Mar-2024
- Pan Continental DC Grids
- Xu, Lie (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Chen, Yin (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Aug-2023 - 29-Feb-2024
- Introduction to Power Electronics and Electric Machines
- Ahmed, Khaled (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) McNeill, Neville (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- 26-Apr-2023 - 08-Jun-2023
- SIF-INSIGHT Innovative Network Status Intelligence Gathered by Holistic Use of Telemetry and Simulation
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator)
- 01-Apr-2023 - 30-Jun-2023
Contact
Professor
Agusti
Egea Alvarez
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373