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