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Advanced control strategies to exploit the hydropower potential enhancing ancillary services provision to the power system
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Study of flexible operating conditions in variable-speed hydraulic turbines : advanced models and experimental validation
This PhD thesis is framed within the XFLEX HYDRO project, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 857832. The ultimate objective of the XFLEX HYDRO project is to increase hydropower potential in ...
EPFL2024Flexible High Power Electronics Solutions for Hydro-Power Applications
The current global energy landscape is characterized by an increasing demand for affordable and sustainable energy sources, leading to an ever increasing integration of intermittent renewable energy resources into the grid. The intermittent nature of these ...
EPFL2023Leveraging industrial biorefineries for the energy transition
François Maréchal, Julia Granacher
Biorefineries hold the potential to provide products and energy carriers at reduced environmental impact compared to their fossil-based counterparts. Thus, they can contribute to the decarbonization of sectors in which electrification of demands is challen ...
London2023Methods for Grid-aware Operation and Planning of Active Distribution Networks
The thesis presents methods for controlling and planning distributed energy resources (DERs) in active distribution networks (ADNs). It deals with three main challenges: (i) developing and experimentally validating grid-aware real-time control frameworks, ...
EPFL2023Experimental Validation of Model-less Robust Voltage Control using Measurement-based Estimated Voltage Sensitivity Coefficients
Mario Paolone, Rahul Kumar Gupta
Increasing adoption of smart meters and phasor measurement units (PMUs) in power distribution networks are enabling the adoption of data-driven/model-less control schemes to mitigate grid issues such as over/under voltages and power-flow congestions. Howev ...
IEEE2023Dispatch-aware Optimal Planning of Active Distribution Networks including Energy Storage Systems
The thesis develops a planning framework for ADNs to achieve their dispatchability by means of ESS allocation while ensuring a reliable and secure operation of ADNs. Second, the framework is extended to include grid reinforcements and ESSs planning. Finall ...
EPFL2023Digital One-Shot Charge-balancing Method for Implantable Current-Mode Electrical Stimulation
Alexandre Schmid, Keyvan Farhang Razi
A low-power digital charge balancing system, which ensures the safe operation of constant-current biphasic stimulation is presented. The concept of the proposed charge-balancing technique is to utilize a hybrid method consisting of anodic pulse modulation ...
IEEE2023Enabling renewable Europe through optimal design and operation
Europe is currently transitioning from fossil energy sources to renewable generation of electric power. Although fundamental to reach net-zero targets, intermittent renewables are disrupting conventional methods used in operational planning and design of p ...
EPFL2022Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter for Pumped Hydro Storage Applications
Energy balance in a power system must be maintained at all times, regardless of the variations in generation and consumption. Large Pumped Hydro Storage Plants (PHSPs) are introduced to the power system to accumulate the excess of energy during the low dem ...
EPFL2022Assessment of the role of infrastructure in high share renewable energy systems
François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li
The transition of the global energy sector from fossil-based towards a zero-carbon system is a necessity to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The ratification of both, the Paris agreement in 2015 and the European Green Deal in 2019, illustrates the p ...
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