Publications by Antoine Béguin

Turbine mode start-up simulation of a FSFC variable speed pump-turbine prototype - Part I: 1D simulation

François Avellan, Drazen Dujic, Sébastien Alligné, Antoine Béguin

Variable speed hydroelectric units equipped with full size frequency converter (FSFC) offer high operational flexibility enabling fast operating point transitions which increase grid regulation capacities. The XFLEX HYDRO H2020 European research project ai ...

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Prediction of Francis Turbine Prototype Part Load Pressure and Output Power Fluctuations with Hydroelectric Model

François Avellan, Christophe Nicolet, Christian Landry, Sébastien Alligné, Joao Gomes Pereira Junior, Antoine Béguin

The prediction of pressure and output power fluctuations amplitudes on Francis turbine prototype is a challenge for hydro-equipment industry since it is subjected to guarantees to ensure smooth and reliable operation of the hydro units. The European FP7 re ...

2017

Simulation of pump-turbine prototype fast mode transition for grid stability support

François Avellan, Christophe Nicolet, Nicolas Ruchonnet, Antoine Béguin, Olivier Braun

The paper explores the additional services that Full Size Frequency Converter, FSFC, solution can provide for the case of an existing pumped storage power plant of 2x210 MW, for which conversion from fixed speed to variable speed is investigated with a foc ...

2017

Hydroelectric System Response to Part Load Vortex Rope Excitation

François Avellan, Antoine Béguin, Christophe Nicolet, Christian Landry, Sébastien Alligné, Joao Gomes Pereira Junior

The prediction of pressure and output power fluctuations amplitudes on Francis turbine prototype is a challenge for hydro-equipment industry since it is subjected to guarantees to ensure smooth and reliable operation of the hydro units. The European FP7 re ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2016

Forced response analysis of hydroelectric systems

François Avellan, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Christophe Nicolet, Philippe Allenbach, Basile Kawkabani, Sébastien Alligné, Antoine Béguin

At off-design operating points, Francis turbines develop cavitation vortex rope in the draft tube which may interact with the hydraulic system. Risk resonance assessment by means of eigenmodes computation of the system is usually performed. However, the sy ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2014

Modular Converter Architecture for Medium Voltage Ultra Fast EV Charging Stations: Global System Considerations

Alfred Rufer, Michail Vasiladiotis, Antoine Béguin

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are expected to contribute significantly to the reduction of CO2 emissions and other types of pollution within the next years. However, the concept of their ultra fast charging still poses demanding requirements, both in terms of th ...

2012

Contribution to the Active Generator Principle : the Gate-commutated Polyphased Matrix Converter

Antoine Béguin

This work is part of the innovative "Active Generator" (AG) project. AG is a concept that suggests a new arrangement of the turbine-generator line of a high power utility (a few hundred of MW) in order to de-synchronize the rotation speed of the turbine-ge ...

EPFL2012

Poly-Phased Matrix Converter - A 27 input phases to 3 output phases experimental set-up running with hard and soft commutations

Alfred Rufer, Antoine Béguin

This paper presents an experimental set-up of a 27 phases input to 3 phases output Poly-Phased Matrix Converter (27x3 PPMC) realised for the real time experimentation of the dedicated control electronics. When the original converter system is dedicated to ...

Ieee2011

Poly-Phased Matrix Converter for large Synchronous Generators - Design of the Voltage Surge Protection

Alfred Rufer, Antoine Béguin

This paper introduces a special mx3 matrix converter connected between the stator of a poly-phased synchronous generator and a power grid. Some commutations of the chosen switching scheme induce voltage surges due to leakage inductances of the generator. T ...

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Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Software for regulator tests and optimization

Jean-Jacques Simond, Philippe Allenbach, Stefan Keller, Antoine Béguin

This paper presents a real-time extension, called SIMSEN-RT, of the simulation software SIMSEN. SIMSEN-RT allows carrying out hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations of power systems using hardware regulators. It can therefore be used to fine-tune regulator ...

2007