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    • A flexible experimental laboratory for distributed generation networks based on power inverters 

      Miret Tomàs, Jaume; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Moradi Ghahderijani, Mohammad (2017-10-13)
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      In the recently deregulated electricity market, distributed generation based on renewable sources is becoming more and more relevant. In this area, two main distributed scenarios are focusing the attention of recent research: ...
    • A new control strategy for three-phase shunt active power filters based on FIR prediction 

      Kukrer, Osman; Komurcugil, Hasan; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-08-07)
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      A new discrete-time control strategy for three-phase three-wire shunt active power filters (APF) is presented, based on a mathematical model in the stationary reference frame. It involves a feedback-linearization-type ...
    • A sliding-mode control in a new reference frame for three-phase UPFR with extended control range 

      Chico Villegas, José Pascual; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Borrell Sanz, Ángel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-06-18)
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      This article presents a new switching strategy for a unity power factor rectifier (UPFR) using sliding-mode control (SMC). The traditional SMC in the natural frame suffers from a cross-coupling problem among controllers ...
    • Active damping based on Ackermann's formula for a three-phase voltage source inverter with LCL filter 

      Guzmán Solà, Ramon; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis; Morales López, Javier; Momeneh, Arash; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Torres Martínez, Javier (2015)
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      This paper presents an active damping method in natural frame for a three-phase voltage source inverter with LCL filter. The proposed method is based on the pole placement technique via Ackermann's formula. This approach ...
    • Active damping control for a three phase grid-connected inverter using sliding mode control 

      Guzmán Solà, Ramon; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Matas Alcalá, José; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume (2013)
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      This paper proposes a ne w active damping method based on virtual resistors for three-phase grid connected voltage source inverters (VSI) with LCL filter. The use of this filters is a standard solution to provide the ...
    • Adaptive slope voltage control for distributed generation inverters with improved transient performance 

      Rey López, Juan Manuel; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Guzmán Solà, Ramon (2019-04-09)
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      Reactive power injection in distributed generation inverters is an useful ancillary service for grid supporting purposes. For grid-feeding converters, the slope control method is the most common voltage regulation strategy ...
    • An adaptive prefiltering method to improve the speed/accuracy tradeoff of voltage sequence detection methods under adverse grid conditions 

      Matas Alcalá, José; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis; Guzmán Solà, Ramon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-07-23)
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      This paper deals with the improvement of the transient response and harmonic, subharmonic, and dc-offset voltage rejection capability of a grid voltage sequence detection scheme based on a second-order generalized integrator ...
    • Anàlisi, definició, validació i implementació dels mètodes d'avaluació de les competències transversals en els nous graus TIC a l'EPSEVG 

      Llorens García, Ariadna; Gómez Urgellés, Joan Vicenç; Villasevil Marco, Francisco Javier; Morillas Varón, Rafael; Daude Ventura, Jordi; Román Jiménez, José Antonio; Guzmán Solà, Ramon (2010)
      Conference lecture
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      La finalitat del projecte és identificar, avaluar i descriure com incorporar els mètodes d'avaluació de les competències transversals dels nous graus directament relacionats amb el sector TIC que s'impartiran a ...
    • Anàlisis, definició, validació i implementació dels mètodes d'avaluació de les competències transversals en els nous graus TIC a l'EPSEVG. 

      Llorens García, Ariadna; Gómez Urgellés, Joan; Villasevil Marco, Francisco Javier; Daude Ventura, Jordi; Román Jiménez, José Antonio; Morillas Varón, Rafael; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; Estrada Viladot, Angels; Alonso Pastor, Anna (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2010-02-11)
      Conference lecture / Conference report
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      La finalitat del projecte és identificar, avaluar i descriure com incorporar els mètodes d'avaluació de les competències transversals dels nous graus directament relacionats amb el sector TIC que s'impartiran a l'Escola ...
    • Application of a kalman filter on mechanical systems to analyze impacts 

      Guzmán Solà, Ramon; Molino Minero, Erik; Manuel Lázaro, Antonio (SARTI (Technological Development Centre of Remote Acquisition and Data processing Systems), 2008-04-08T15:04:59Z)
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    • Architecture and design of an inductive contactless energy transfer system with two mobile loads for residential applications 

      Momeneh, Arash; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; van der Pijl, Fredrik F.A.; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; Morales López, Javier (2015)
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      Inductive contactless energy transfer systems with multiple mobile loads are very complex systems. Main challenges of these systems are to propose a suitable architecture and to design their power components. These ...
    • Assessing the 2014 retroactive regulatory framework applied to the concentrating solar power systems in Spain 

      Hoz Casas, Jordi de la; Martín Cañadas, María Elena; Montalà Palau, Montserrat; Matas Alcalá, José; Guzmán Solà, Ramon (2018-02-15)
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      The RD 413/2014 new economic and regulatory framework applied to the concentrating solar power plants (CSPP) in Spain has been here analysed and its new remuneration scheme has been formulated, becoming evident its high ...
    • Avoiding overvoltage problems in three-phase distributed-generation systems during unbalanced voltage sags 

      Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis (2020-02-01)
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      During voltage sags, distributed generation systems must fulfil specific grid-code requirements for reactive current injection. This ancillary service can produce overvoltage problems in networks operating in unbalanced ...
    • Collaborative voltage unbalance compensation in islanded AC microgrids with grid-forming inverters 

      Borrell Sanz, Angel; Velasco García, Manel; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Guzmán Solà, Ramon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-04-25)
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      The presence of unbalanced loads in power systems creates voltage imbalances that perturb the operation of sensitive loads like induction motors, power electronics converters and adjustable speed drives. This paper presents ...
    • COMUNICACIONES MÓVILES. 2on Control (Curs 2014-2015) 

      Guzmán Solà, Ramon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-01-15)
      Exam
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    • Constrained predictive control based on a large-signal model for a three-phase inverter connected to a microgrid 

      Alfaro Aragón, Carlos Arturo; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Castilla Fernández, Miguel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-07-21)
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      Small-signal models are the mostly used to model and design in inverter-dominated microgrids. Conversely, this paper proposes a large-signal model for grid-forming inverters connected to a microgrid based on the active and ...
    • Control de convertidores trifásicos mediante imposición de dinámica y estimadores 

      Guzmán Solà, Ramon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-10-14)
      Doctoral thesis
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      The present thesis is focused on the control of three-phase power converters using sliding-mode control (SMC) in abc frame. This work has been based on previous publications about the SMC applied to three-phase power ...
    • Control scheme for a multiple-output DC/DC current source parallel resonant converter 

      Ghahderijani, Mohammad Moradi; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; Rey López, Juan Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      The aim of this paper is to regulate the output voltages of a multiple-output DC/DC class-D current source parallel resonant converter. To this end, a sliding mode control scheme is presented consisting of an outer voltage ...
    • Control scheme for negative-sequence voltage compensation and current sharing in inverter-based grid-connected microgrids 

      Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Velasco García, Manel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Borrell Sanz, Angel; Guzmán Solà, Ramon (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-01-06)
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      This paper presents a control scheme that simultaneously solves the problems of negative-sequence voltage compensation and negative-sequence current sharing in grid-connected microgrids using grid-feeding inverters. ...
    • Control strategies based on effective power factor for distributed generation power plants during unbalanced grid voltage 

      Camacho Santiago, Antonio; Castilla Fernández, Miguel; Miret Tomàs, Jaume; Matas Alcalá, José; Guzmán Solà, Ramon; de Sousa Pérez, Óscar; Martí Colom, Pau; García de Vicuña Muñoz de la Nava, José Luis (2013)
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      Unbalanced voltages in three-phase power systems is a common perturbation propagated along the grid. Distributed Generation plants have gained widespread attention due to their capability to improve power quality in a ...