Dr Agusti Egea Alvarez

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Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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Personal statement

Dr Agustí Egea-Àlvarez is a Reader at the electronic & electrical engineering department and a member of the PEDEC (Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Conversion) group. Also, he is the holder of a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship with ScottishPower.

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.

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Publications

The effect of grid-connected converter control topology on the diagonal dominance of converter output impedance
Henderson Callum, Egea-Alvarez Agusti, Fekriasl Sajjad, Knueppel Thyge, Amico Gabriele, Xu Lie
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy Vol 10, pp. 617-628 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1109/OAJPE.2023.3316297
Limitations and comparisons of small signal modelling techniques in converter dominated medium voltage networks
Coffey Sophie, Harrison Sam, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Brozio Cornel
2023 25th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'23 ECCE Europe) (2023)
https://doi.org/10.23919/epe23ecceeurope58414.2023.10264383
Frequency optimisation for DC/DC converters in DC-connected offshore wind turbines
Timmers Victor, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Gkountaras Aris
2023 25th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'23 ECCE Europe) (2023)
https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE23ECCEEurope58414.2023.10264511
Grid-forming VSM control for black-start applications with experimental PHiL validation
Alassi Abdulrahman, Feng Zhiwang, Ahmed Khaled, Syed Mazheruddin, Egea-Alvarez Agusti, Foote Colin
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Vol 151 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2023.109119
Responsive and resilient vector current control for variable grids
Kervyn de Meerendre Mathieu, Ahmed Khaled H, Egea Àlvarez Agustí
Open Journal of Power Electronics Vol 4, pp. 463-473 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1109/OJPEL.2023.3270374
Demystifying inertial specifications : supporting the inclusion of grid-followers
Harrison Sam, Henderson Callum, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N, Egea-Alvarez Agusti
IET Renewable Power Generation Vol 17, pp. 1768-1782 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1049/rpg2.12711

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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

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

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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-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-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-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-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-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
Pan Continental DC Grids
Xu, Lie (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Chen, Yin (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-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-Jan-2023 - 08-Jan-2023
SIF Black start Demonstrator from offshore wind (SIF BLADE)
Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Khaled (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Tzelepis, Dimitrios (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023

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Dr Agusti Egea Alvarez
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373