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.
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
- Demystifying grid forming converters: challenges and opportunities of a new converter control technology
- Speaker
- 6/12/2021
- 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
- IEEE (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2020
More professional activities
Projects
- SSE-Protection-Field Trial
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) TZELEPIS, Dimitrios (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- Extension/Additional Funding associated with RKES 210195
- 12-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2025
- Potential solutions for AC protection in converter-dominated networks
- Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) TZELEPIS, Dimitrios (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- Related to rkes 211743
- 01-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2025
- 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
- Sustainable impact by design: a pilot study of effective STEM dissemination for hard-to-reach audiences
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Co-investigator) Essex, Jane (Principal Investigator) Hendry, Martyn (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Co-investigator) Giovelli, Noemi (Post Grad Student) Ivaturi, Aruna (Co-investigator) Li, Rui (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Somorin, Tosin (Co-investigator) Yue, Hong (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator)
- STEM Equals + RKES funded project
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Benedetti, Luke
- Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Principal Investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Marshall, Stephen (Co-investigator) Benedetti, Luke (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- Cost-Effective MVDC Integration for Wind Farms EPSRC iCASE
- Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2024
More projects
Address
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