Dr Rafael Pena Alzola

Senior Lecturer

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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Rafael Peña-Alzola received the combined licentiate and M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering from the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from the National University for Distance Learning (UNED), Madrid, Spain, in 2011. He has worked as an electrical engineer for several companies in Spain. From September 2012 to July 2013, he was Guest Postdoc at the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. From August 2014 to December 2016, he was Postdoc Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. From January 2017 to May 2017, he was with the University of Alcalá in Madrid, Spain for a short-term industrial collaboration. Since June 2017, he is with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK initially as Research Fellow and since 2019, as a Lecturer within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Electrical Power Systems, Institute for Energy and Environment. His research interests are energy storage, LCL-filters, solid-state transformers, power electronics for hybrid electric aircraft and innovative control techniques for power converters. He is an IEEE Senior Member and Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics.

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Publications

Control structures for combined H2/electricity from offshore wind turbines
Monroy-Morales José Luis, Peña-Alzola Rafael, Campos-Gaona David, Anaya-Lara Olimpo
Energies Vol 17 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.3390/en17215353
Design automation using exclusion-based hierarchical computation for power electronics converters in harsh environments
Xiao Yudi, Zhang Zhe, Zsurzsan Gabriel, Andersen Michael AE, MacFadyen Martin, Liao Yuchuan, Pena Alzola Rafael, Yuan Weijia, Zhang Min
IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics Vol 5, pp. 1172-1181 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1109/OJPEL.2024.3439593
Review of semiconductor devices and other power electronics components at cryogenic temperature
Liao Yuchuan, Elwakeel Abdelrahman, Xiao Yudi, Alzola Rafael Peña, Zhang Min, Yuan Weijia, Feliciano Alfonso J Cruz, Graber Lukas
iEnergy Vol 3, pp. 95-107 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.23919/ien.2024.0014
Low harmonics offshore hybrid HVDC system based on Vienna Rectifier and voltage source converter with back-up capability
Tian Shangen, Campos-Gaona David, Mortazavizadeh Seyed, Peña-Alzola Rafael, Anaya-Lara Olimpo
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2024.3402945
Design and testing of isolated gate driver for cryogenic environments
Elwakeel Abdelrahman, McNeill Neville, Peña Alzola Rafael, Surapaneni Ravi Kiran, Galla Gowtham, Ybanez Ludovic, Zhang Min, Yuan Weijia
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity Vol 34, pp. 1-4 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2024.3356496
Frequency control in an isolated wind-diesel hybrid system with energy storage and an irrigation water supply system
Monroy-Morales José Luis, Peña-Alzola Rafael, Sebastián-Fernández Rafael, Campos-Gaona David, Quesada Jerónimo, Guardado José L
IET Renewable Power Generation Vol 18, pp. 1040-1054 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1049/rpg2.12950

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Professional Activities

Current-type Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Interface for Black Start Testing of Grid Forming Converter
Contributor
19/10/2022

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Projects

GKNAS Modelling and Requirements Capture
Norman, Patrick (Principal Investigator) Jones, Catherine (Co-investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator) Bradley, Luke (Research Co-investigator)
01-Apr-2024 - 30-Apr-2025
Converter Design Review
Pena Alzola, Rafael (Principal Investigator) Norman, Patrick (Co-investigator)
16-Aug-2023 - 15-Sep-2023
Zero Emissions for Sustainable Transport 1 "ZEST1"
Zhang, Min (Principal Investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator) Yuan, Weijia (Co-investigator)
01-May-2021 - 01-Jan-2026
Converter prototyping
McNeill, Neville (Principal Investigator) Norman, Patrick (Co-investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2019 - 13-Sep-2019
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | Makkieh, Ahmad
Burt, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Pena Alzola, Rafael (Co-investigator) Makkieh, Ahmad (Research Co-investigator)
01-Oct-2016 - 29-Sep-2022

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Dr Rafael Pena Alzola
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: rafael.pena-alzola@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7261