Dr Agusti Egea Alvarez
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
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.
Prize And Awards
- Best Paper wind integration workshop 2019
- Recipient
- 2020
- Teaching Excellence Awards - Best in Faculty – Engineering
- Recipient
- 2019
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
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-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
Contact
Dr
Agusti
Egea Alvarez
Reader
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: agusti.egea@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2373