Annual Academic ReportAcademic year 2011 - 2012

Institute for Research inTechnology

Instituto de InvestigaciónTecnológica

Index1. Introduction..................................................................................................... 1

2. Organization.................................................................................................... 32.1 Management................................................................................................ 32.2 Council........................................................................................................ 32.3 Academic staff ............................................................................................. 42.4 Associated academic staff .......................................................................... 102.5 Research assistants..................................................................................... 132.6 Services staff .............................................................................................. 16

2.6.1 Systems administrator staff.................................................................... 162.6.2 Administrative staff ............................................................................... 16

3. Teaching ........................................................................................................ 173.1 Master courses ........................................................................................... 17

3.1.1 Erasmus Mundus International Master in Economics and Managementof Network Industries (EMIN)......................................................................... 173.1.2 Master in Electricity Generation. Promotion, Technology andOperation (On-line)....................................................................................... 183.1.3 Master in Fire Protection Engineering ................................................... 193.1.4 Master in Project, Construction and Maintenance of High VoltageElectrical Transmission (On-line) ................................................................... 193.1.5 Master in Regulation of the Electricity Industry ..................................... 193.1.6 Master in Electric Power Industry.......................................................... 203.1.7 Master in Railway Systems.................................................................... 213.1.8 Master in Electrical Technology............................................................ 21

3.2 Master theses ............................................................................................. 223.2.1 Erasmus Mundus International Master in Economics and Managementof Network Industries (EMIN)......................................................................... 223.2.2 Master in Electric Power Industry.......................................................... 233.2.3 Master in Railway Systems.................................................................... 24

3.3 Other academic activities .......................................................................... 243.3.1 Master courses...................................................................................... 24

4. Research ........................................................................................................ 254.1 Research areas ........................................................................................... 254.2 Research projects....................................................................................... 26

4.2.1 Power Systems Areas ............................................................................ 274.2.1.1 Research and develop projects........................................................ 274.2.1.2 Consultancy and technological support........................................... 41

4.2.2 Engineering Design Area ...................................................................... 444.2.2.1 Research and develop projects........................................................ 444.2.2.2 Consultancy and technological support........................................... 46

4.2.3 Railway Systems Area........................................................................... 464.2.3.1 Research and develop projects........................................................ 464.2.3.2 Consultancy and technological support........................................... 47

4.2.4 Intelligent Systems Area........................................................................ 484.2.4.1 Research and develop projects........................................................ 484.2.4.2 Consultancy and technological support........................................... 52

4.2.5 Electronics and Automatic Group ......................................................... 524.2.5.1 Research and develop projects........................................................ 534.2.5.2 Consultancy and technological support........................................... 56

4.3 Publications ............................................................................................... 574.3.1 Books ................................................................................................... 574.3.2 Chapters in books................................................................................. 574.3.3 Publications in journals ........................................................................ 574.3.4 Presentations in congress...................................................................... 644.3.5 IIT technical documents ....................................................................... 704.3.6 Other publications................................................................................ 73

4.4 Software products ...................................................................................... 73

5. Doctorate ...................................................................................................... 775.1 ICAI Engineers' Association........................................................................ 775.2 Doctoral courses........................................................................................ 77

5.2.1 Master in Research in Engineering Systems Modelling .......................... 775.2.2 Master in Power Systems ...................................................................... 78

5.3 Doctoral seminars...................................................................................... 795.4 Research sufficiency degree ....................................................................... 80

5.4.1 Master in Research in Engineering Systems Modelling .......................... 805.4.2 Master in Power Systems ...................................................................... 81

5.5 Doctoral theses .......................................................................................... 825.5.1 Submitted theses................................................................................... 825.5.2 Ongoing theses..................................................................................... 82

6. Other activities .............................................................................................. 856.1 EES-UETP................................................................................................... 85

6.1.1 EES-UETP partners ................................................................................ 856.1.2 Teached courses................................................................................... 86

6.2 International exchanges ............................................................................. 876.3 Visitting professors ..................................................................................... 896.4 Courses offered to external companies and institutions .............................. 906.5 Seminars .................................................................................................... 916.6 Congress, seminars and journals organization............................................ 936.7 Other activities .......................................................................................... 94

7. Data about IIT ............................................................................................. 103

Director's greetingDear Friend,

Thank you for your interest in IIT! Another year, it is with much pleasure andsatisfaction that I present the annual report of the work carried out in the Institutefor Research in Technology (IIT) of the ICAI School of Engineering at the ComillasPontifical University during academic year.

This document - a record of a year of effort and dedication on the part of ourresearch staff - is proof indeed of the position we have been able to consolidate,both nationally and internationally, in our chosen areas of research. It describes asituation which attests both to the strength of the institute’s research teams, whoalso make an important contribution to our ambitious and internationally-orienteddoctoral programmes, and to the continuing success of our collaboration with theindustrial sector, a mutually beneficial relationship which now stretches back overtwenty-five years.

All of the activity described in this report would not have been possible withoutthe work and commitment of all the professionals in the institute: teachers,researchers, administrative staff, post-graduate students and representatives of theindustrial sector. If the work of the IIT has become an international benchmark inits areas of research, it is without doubt entirely their achievement.

Our goal now is to build on our success and advance further in our areas ofexpertise. This we hope to achieve though our continuing commitment and ourprofessionalism, a professionalism which will enable us to continue to enjoy theconfidence of those national and international companies and organisations withwhom we collaborate, in particular the ICAI School of Engineering itself, theComillas Pontifical University, and ICAI Engineers Association, for whosevaluable support we would like to express our gratitude. We wish to continue toearn this confidence by dint of our efforts to produce qualified professionals whoare highly sought after by companies in the industrial sector, to encourage appliedresearch which adds to the engineering knowledge base, and to pass on thisknowledge so that it may be of use to society. We are conscious that this is adifficult challenge in the current global economic situation, we face it withenthusiasm and commitment.

I cordially invite you to get to know us better by reading this report.

Efraim Centeno Hernáez

IIT Annual Report 2011 - 2012

1. IntroductionThe Institute for Research in Technology (IIT) is a University Research Institute thatbelongs to the ICAI School of Engineering of Comillas Pontifical University. Itsprimary objective is to promote research and postgraduate training in varioustechnological fields through participation in specific projects of interest to theindustry and the administration. It is a nonprofit institute that seeks to be flexibleand pragmatic in the way they work. Its funding comes mainly from projectscontracted with companies and, therefore, meet the social demand proven.

The results of this research are specified in the following products:

• Innovative engineering equipment design and advanced computer applications(usually developed to customer specifications) used in many different companies.

• Analysis, consulting and technical, statistical, regulatory and econometricstudies developed for companies and institutions in various countries.

• Doctoral theses defended at the University and publications in conferences andinternational journals.

The core of IIT is composed of a group of Professors and Researchers. This groupis supplemented by postgraduate researchers as Research Assistants, usually withscholarships from the IIT and dedicated to the Institute. Work teams are formedbetween both groups for the development of research projects, some of which aremade dissertations.

This report covers the period for the academic year 2011 - 2012, from theSeptember 12, 2011 to September 2, 2012.

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2. Organization

2.1 Management

The management of the Institute for Research in Technology has been formed bythe following teachers:

• Centeno Hernáez, Efraim. Director • Villar Collado, José. Deputy Director

2.2 Council

Members of the Council of the Institute for Research in Technology were:

• Centeno Hernáez, Efraim. Director • Villar Collado, José. Deputy director • Rodríguez-Morcillo García, Carlos. Secretary and member since October 2011• Díaz Durán, Cristian Andrés. (until October 2011)• Domínguez Gago, María. (until October 2011)• Dueñas Martínez, Pablo. (since October 2011)• Latorre Canteli, Jesús María. (since October 2011)• Muñoz San Roque, Antonio. (until October 2011)• Ramos Galán, Andrés. • Reneses Guillén, Javier. • Rivier Abbad, Michel. • Saiz Marín, Elena. (since October 2011)• Sánchez Úbeda, Eugenio Francisco. (until October 2011)

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2.3 Academic staff

The permanent staff of IIT consisted of the following Professors and Researchers:

• Alexandres Fernández, Sadot. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Telecommunications Engineering (UPM)Telecommunications Engineer (UPM)Areas of interest: Microelectronic design. Digital signal processing. Industrialcommunications. Field busses. Wireless systems.

• Barquín Gil, Julián. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas), Physics Science degree (UNED)Areas of interest: Energy planning, operation and econonomics, with anemphasis on electricity and natural gas.

• Batlle López, Carlos. Tenured Assistant ResearcherPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Economics and regulation of the electricity industry.Modelling of electricity markets. Risk analysis and management.

• Campos Fernández, Francisco Alberto. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mathematics Science degree (UCM)Areas of interest: Nash equilibriums. Possibility theory. Optimization underuncertainty. Electricity markets. Cryptanalysis.

• Centeno Hernáez, Efraim. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Electric power system operation models. Hydrothermalcoordination. Electric power markets.

• Cerisola López de Haro, Santiago. Adjunct ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mathematics Science degree (UCM)Areas of interest: Pure and applied mathematics. Optimization. Stochasticoptimization. Decomposition techniques.

• Contreras Bárcena, David. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Computing Engineer (Comillas), Postgraduate in Management InformationSystems (Comillas)Areas of interest: Bluetooth architecture. Ambient intelligence. Web analytics

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• Cuadra García, Fernando de. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Large-scale modelling, simulation and optimisation problems.Knowledge engineering. Intelligent CAD. Control theory. Power systems.Railways systems. Software Engineering and graphical languages for thespecification of digital systems.

• Cucala García, Asunción Paloma. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Modelling, simulation, design, management and control ofrailway systems, and their safety and quality analysis.

• Echavarren Cerezo, Francisco Miguel. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Modeling, analysis and simulation of power systems.

• Egido Cortés, Ignacio. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: System modeling and control. Power system stability.

• Fernández Cardador, Antonio. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Physics Science degree (UCM)Areas of interest: Systems modelling, analysis and simulation. Simulationtechniques for optimisation and control problems. Design, management andcontrol of railway systems.

• Fernández Martínez, Cesáreo. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (UPM)Areas of interest: Software for Real-time control. Parallel architectures incontrol. HV line protection. Control in electric power substations.

• Frías Marín, Pablo. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Operation and planning of electric power systems. Powereconomics. Optimisation techniques. Integration of distributed generation inpower systems. Advanced electric machines.

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• García Cerrada, Aurelio. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (University of Birmingham, U.K.)Electrical Engineer (UPM)Areas of interest: Power electronics. Control of electrical drives. FACTS. Systemidentification and control.

• García González, Javier. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (UPC)Areas of interest: Economy and optimization of electric power systems.

• García González, Pablo. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Control. Power electronics. Power electronics aplied to theelectric power systems (FACTS devices, active filters, HVDC, etc.). Electricpower systems stability and control.

• Giannetti, Romano. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Electronics and Computing Engineering (University of Padua, Italy)Electronics Engineer (University of Pisa, Italy)Areas of interest: Measurement instrumentation and methodology. Biomedicalinstrumentation. Noise measurements.

• González Arechavala, Yolanda. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Computing Engineer (UPV-EHU)Areas of interest: Software engineering: software development process,programming paradigms, software quality assurance and control, CASE tools.RAMS: standards and analysis. Safety critical and real time systems. Railwaysystems.

• Latorre Canteli, Jesús María. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Operations research and modeling. Stochastic programming.Parallel and distributed computing. Algorithms and numerical methods.

• Linares Llamas, Pedro. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Environmental Economics (UPM)Environmental Economics degree (UPM)Areas of interest: Multiple criteria decision making energy economics. Energyplanning models. Integration of renewable energies. Environmental economics.Environmental policy instruments.

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• Lobato Miguélez, Enrique. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Analysis, planning, operation and economics in electricpower systems.

• Mateo Domingo, Carlos. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas), Computer Systems Engineer (UNED)Areas of interest: Ultrasound. Models of electricity distribution networks.

• Muñoz San Roque, Antonio. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Time series forecasting. Data mining. Application of ArtificialIntelligence techniques to the monitoring and diagnosis of industrial processes.Analog electronics and digital signal processing.

• Nieto Fuentes, Francisco. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Robotics. Reliability and safety. Mechanical design.

• Olmos Camacho, Luis. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Regulation of the energy sector. Transmission of electricity.Power economics. System identification.

• Pagola y de las Heras, Francisco Luis. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (UPM)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Theory and applications of automatic control. Digital andadaptive control. Electric power systems: stability, control, modeling,measuring and relaying techniques. Power electronics and electrical drives.

• Palacios Hielscher, Rafael. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Advanced data analysis (including vibration analysis, opticalhandwritten character recognition, image processing, artificial intelligence anddata mining). Parallel processing. Thermoelectric applications. Failure detectionand maintenance. Aviation safety.

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• Pérez Arriaga, José Ignacio. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology - MIT, U.S.A.), Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (UPM)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Regulation, economics, planning, operation and control ofelectric power systems. Sustainability of the energy model.

• Ramos Galán, Andrés. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (UPM)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Development of new algorithms and computerimplementation. Modeling of complex systems. Mathematical techniques ofoperations research and their application to large-scale problems. Large-scaleoptimization techniques. Stochastic optimization. Benders decomposition.Planning and operation of electric energy systems -models for generation andtransmission network planning, generation operation models-. Economy of theelectric sector. Computational techniques and analytical methods for planning,operations, and control. Economics, market organization, cost structures,pricing, and risk management. Reliability, uncertainty, and probability andstochastic system applications. Emerging methods for restructured systems.Generation system resource planning. Transmission system planning. Industryrestructuring planning and policy issues.

• Reneses Guillén, Javier. Tenured Assistant ResearcherPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas), Mathematics Science degree (UNED)Areas of interest: Operation, regulation and planning of power and natural gassystems. Tariff design.

• Rivier Abbad, Michel. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Electric power systems analysis, optimisation, regulationeconomic, operation and planning. Optimisation techniques.

• Rodilla Rodríguez, Pablo. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Fundamental and quantitative electricity market modeling.Market design and regulation for wholesale electricity markets. Competitionand strategic behavior analysis. Security of supply mechanisms in competitivepower systems. Regulatory mechanisms focused on environmental policies

• Rodríguez Mondéjar, José Antonio. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)

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Areas of interest: Communication and control in electric power systems andrailway systems.

• Rodríguez Pecharromán, Ramón. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Control systems. Railway electrification. Thermoelectricity.

• Rodríguez-Morcillo García, Carlos. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: On board Communications. Embedded Systems. Wirelesscommunications. Programmable logic. Digital systems.

• Rouco Rodríguez, Luis. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (UPM)Electrical Engineer (UPM)Areas of interest: Electric power systems stability and control. Systemidentification. Simulation of electromagnetic transients.

• Sánchez Martín, Pedro. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Industrial Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Transmission and generation electric system modeling.Industrial process planning and scheduling. Work system design.Manufacturing and logistics simulation

• Sánchez Miralles, Álvaro. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Smart grids. Electrial vehicles. Security systems. Mobilerobotics.

• Sánchez Úbeda, Eugenio Francisco. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Data mining. Artificial Intelligence (automatic learning,decision trees, neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, heuristicsearch). Biometrics (optical character, image and speech recognition). Electricenergy systems (bidding in competitive markets, forecasting, dynamic securityassessment, transmission and subtransmission planning). Multi-agent systems.

• Sanz Bobi, Miguel Ángel. Tenured Full ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (UPM)Electrical Engineer (UPM)

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Areas of interest: Monitoring and analysis of industrial processes. Modellingand simulation of industrial components performance. Expert systems. Neuralnetworks. Fuzzy logic. Genetic algorithms. Failure detection techniques.Reliability. Predictive maintenance. Image and voice processing.

• Sigrist, Lukas. Assistant Research ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical and Electronics Engineer (École Plytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne -EPFL, Switzerland)Areas of interest: Modeling, analysis and control of electric power systems.

• Ventosa Rodríguez, Mariano. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Operations, planning and economy of electric energy systems.Application of operations research in electric energy markets.

• Villar Collado, José. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Power systems operation and strategic planing. Electricitymarkets. Process modelling and signal processing techniques, electronics andcontrol. Monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance of industrial processes.Artificial intelligence.

2.4 Associated academic staff

Collaborated with IIT, as Associate Reseachers:

• Ballesteros Iglesias, Yolanda. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Chemistry Science (UAM)Chemistry Science degree (UAM)Areas of interest: Materials. Environment.

• Cantizano González, Alexis. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mechanical Engineer (Comillas), M.Sc. in Thermal Power and FluidsEngineering (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology -UMIST, U.K.), Psychology degree (UNED)Areas of interest: CFD. Hemodynamics. Blood rheological characterization.Multiphase fluid flow. Advanced thermal systems. New energy technologies.Peltier effect.

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• Carnicero López, Alberto. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Continuum mechanics. Numerical methods in engineering.Earthquake engineering. Wavelets.

• Castro Ponce, Mario. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Physics Science (UCM)Physics Science degree (UCM)Areas of interest: Fluid mechanics. Statistical mechanics. Communicationnetworks. Nonlinear physics. Nanomaterials. Biophysics.

• Fernández Bernal, Fidel. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Dynamics of electrical systems. Motor control andapplications on electric vehicles. Power electronics.

• Jiménez Octavio, Jesús. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Railway systems. Design and optimization. Computationalmechanics.

• Laloux Dallemagne, Damián. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electrical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Modelling, analysis and control of electric power systems.Sustainable development.

• Maté Jiménez, Carlos. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Mathematics Science (UCM)Mathematics Science degree (UCM)Areas of interest: Forecasting. Time series analysis. Symbolic data analysis.Reliability. Life testing. Nonparametrics bayesian statistics. Multivariateanalysis. Marketing research. Customer satisfaction measurement. QoS.Economics. Finance. Quality control. Quality management systems.

• Meseguer Velasco, Claudia. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial EngineerMechanical Engineer (UPM)Areas of interest: Regulation, economics, operation and planning of electricpower systems.

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• Mochón Castro, Luis Manuel. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Computacional fluid dynamic. Fluid control. Hydraulicenergy. Heat transfer. Olehidraulic systems.

• Muñoz Frías, José Daniel. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Digital systems design. Computer architecture. Motor drivescontrol. Design of embbedded systems for automatic control applications.

• Ortiz Marcos, Susana. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (UPM)Industrial Engineer (UPM)Areas of interest: Business administration. Financial accountig. Productionmanagement. Costing accounting. Regulation and organizational structure ofthe electricity market and cost of capital estimation for companies of theelectricity sector. Renewable fuels.

• Porras Galán, José. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Manufacturing. Machining. Robotics. Mechanical design.Artificial inteligence. Acoustics.

• Real Romero, Juan Carlos del. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Industrial Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Adhesive bonding: adhesives suitable for each application;mechanical characterization of adhesive bonding; durability studies and failuremodes; surface treatments to improve durability of the adhesive joints.Composites: preparation of polymer matrix composites reinforced by micro andnanoparticles; mechanical characterization; thermal analysis; applications ascoatings; biomedical applications. Nanomaterials: preparation, characterizationand simulation of nanomaterials.

• Sáenz Nuño, María Ana. Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Physics Science degree (UCM)Areas of interest: Dimensional metrology.

• Santos Montes, Ana María. Tenured Associate ProfessorPh.D. in Chemistry Science (UCM)Chemistry Science degree (UAM)

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Areas of interest: Development, optimization and validation ofchromatographic analytical methods for high-performance liquidchromatography (HPLC) to determine steroids, diuretics and contaminants inurine samples, feed and water. Analysis of the life cycle of crops for biofuels.

• Zamora Macho, Juan Luis. Tenured Assistant ProfessorPh.D. in Industrial Engineering (Comillas)Electronics Engineer (Comillas)Areas of interest: Drive control. System identification. Signal processing.

2.5 Research assistants

The group of Research Assistants at the IIT consisted of the following graduates inthis course:

• Alvar Miró, Manuel. Electronics Engineer (Comillas), Arts and ManufacturesEngineer (École Centrale Paris, France)

• Andrade Vieira, Rodrigo José. Mechanical Engineer (Federal University of Pará- UFPA, Belém, Brazil), M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Federal University ofPará - UFPA, Belém, Brazil)

• Arranz Domingo, Álvaro. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Ayala Santamaría, Pablo. Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)• Báñez Chicharro, Fernando. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Bello Morales, Antonio. Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)• Boal Martín-Larrauri, Jaime. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Carvajal Carreño, William. Electrical Engineer (Industrial University of

Santander - UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia), M.Sc. in Electrical Engineer(Industrial University of Santander - UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia)

• Castel Conesa, Carlos. Electrical degree (UPV), M.Sc. in Materials and SensorsSystems for Environmental Technologies (Polytechnic University of Valencia -UPV and Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)

• Chaves Ávila, José Pablo. Economics (University of Costa Rica), M.Sc. inElectric Power Industry (Comillas), M.Sc. in Network Industries and DigitalEconomics (University Paris-Sud 11, France)

• Chazarra Jover, Manuel. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Conchado Rodríguez, Adela. Electrical Engineer (Comillas), M.Sc. in Power

Systems (Comillas), M.Sc. in Business and Community (University of Bath,United Kingdom)

• Contreras Alfonsín, Alejandro. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Cossent Arín, Rafael. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)

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• Danesin, Alessandro. Economics and Management of Complex Systems degree(Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy), M.Sc. in Models and Methods ofQuantitative Economics (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - UAB andUniversité Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France)

• Delgadillo Vega, Andrés Ramiro. Electrical Engineer (Universidad Nacional deColombia, Bogota, Colombia), M.Sc. in Economy (Universidad Nacional deColombia, Bogota, Colombia)

• Dias Bleasby Rodrigues, Renato. Economics Science degree (Federal Universityof Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil), M.Sc. in Economics of Industry andTechnology. Stricto Sensu (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil)

• Díaz Durán, Cristian Andrés. Electrical Engineer (Industrial University ofSantander - UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia)

• Dietrich, Kristin. Industrial Engineering and Management degree (DresdenUniversity of Technology - TU Dresden, Germany)

• Díez Maroto, Luis. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Domínguez Gago, María. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Dueñas Martínez, Pablo. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Fagiani, Riccardo. Energy Engineer (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)• Fernández Fernández, Ismael Jaime. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Fernández Sánchez, Miguel Ángel. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Fitiwi, Desta Zahlay. Electrical and Computer Engineer (Addis Ababa

University, Ethiopia), M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (PETRONAS University ofTechnology, Malaysia)

• Formozo Fernandes, Camila. Economics Science degree (Federal University ofRio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil), M.Sc. in Electric Power Industry (Comillas), M.Sc.in Economics, Technology and Territory (University Paris-Sud 11, France)

• García Matos, Jesús Ángel. Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)• Gascón González, Alberto. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Gebrekiros, Yonas Tesfay. Electrical Engineer (Mekelle University, Ethiopia),

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Delft University of Technology - TU Delft, TheNetherlands)

• González García, Alezeia. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• González Gascón y Marín, Pablo. Energy Techniques Engineer (UPM)• González Sotres, Luis. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Izadkhast, Seyedmahdi. Electrical Engineer (University of Tehran, Iran), M.Sc.

in Power Electronics and Electrical Machines (Sharif University of Technology,Tehran, Iran)

• Juárez Montojo, Javier. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Lago Vázquez, Óscar. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• López López, Álvaro Jesús. Electronics degree (Comillas), M.Sc. in Automatics

and Electronics (Comillas)• López-Peña Fernández, Álvaro. Electrical Engineer (Comillas), Engineer (ICAM

- Ecole d'ingénieurs généralistes, Toulouse, France)

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• Lumbreras Sancho, Sara. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Martín Sastre, Carlos. Agronomist Engineer (UPM)• Matanza Domingo, Javier. Telecommunications Engineer (Technical University

of Valencia)• Momber, Ilan. Industrial Engineer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT,

Germany)• Morales España, Germán Andrés. Electrical Engineer (Industrial University of

Santander - UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia), M.Sc. in Electricity Sector(Comillas), M.Sc. in Engineering and Policy Analysis (Delft University ofTechnology - TU Delft, The Netherlands)

• Moreno Barrado, Ana. Physics Science degree (University of Seville)• Nasri, Amin• Nogales Gómez, Adelaida. Electrical Engineer (University of Extremadura)• Ochoa Giménez, Miguel. Electronics degree (Comillas), M.Sc. in Automatics

and Electronics (Comillas)• Portela González, José. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Rivero Puente, Enrique. Electronics and Communications Engineer (Instituto de

Estudios Superiores de Monterrey - ITESM, Mexico), M.Sc. in Electric PowerIndustry (Comillas), M.Sc. in Economics, Technology and Territory (UniversityParis-Sud 11, France)

• Rodríguez Calvo, Andrea. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Roldán Pérez, Javier. Electronics Engineer (Comillas), M.Sc. in Automatics and

Electronics (Comillas)• Saboya Bautista, Inmaculada. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Saiz Marín, Elena. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Sánchez Rebollo, Cristina. Mechanical Engineer (Comillas)• Santamaría Barroso, Alberto. Electronics Engineer (Comillas)• Santodomingo Berry, Rafael. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Serrano Remón, Ignacio Pablo. Civil Engineer (UPM)• Sicre Vara del Rey, Carlos María. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Vallés Rodríguez, Mercedes. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Vázquez Martínez, Samuel. Mining degree in Energetic Resources, Fuels &

Explosives (University of Leon), Mining Engineer (UPM)• Veiga Santiago, Andrea. Electrical Engineer (Comillas)• Wogrin, Sonja. Technical Mathematics degree (Graz University of Technology,

Austria), M.Sc. in Computation for Design and Optimization (MassachusettsInstitute of Technology - MIT, U.S.A.)

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2.6 Services staff

2.6.1 Systems administrator staff

The staff responsible for managing networks and computer systems consists of:

• Checa López, Francisco. Senior Technical in Computer Systems Management,Senior Technical in Sales and Marketing Management

• Martín Tena, Julián. Computer Expert

2.6.2 Administrative staff

The staff that manage the documentation, the technical secretariat and the Ph.D.consist of:

• Ignacio Pimentel, Almudena. Senior Technical in Administration and Finance• Ruiz González-Mateo, Cristina. Law and Legal Advisor Companies degree

(Comillas)• Sánchez Ortega, María Isabel. Librarianship and Information Science diploma

(University of Granada)• Tamudo González, Isabel. Criminology diploma (UCM), Criminology degree

(UEM)

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3. TeachingThe IIT has, in teaching, the research orientation complement within theuniversity setting in which it enrolls. This teaching activity takes the form ofmaster courses in collaboration with departments of Comillas ICAI. Additionally,the IIT encourages participation of its researchers in activities of teaching.

Other academic activities include doctoral courses and teaching courses in otherschools.

3.1 Master courses

In various master's programs organized by the Post-Graduate Institute incollaboration with Comillas ICAI are addressed technical and managementproblems.

You can find detailed information of the masters in the respective prospectuses ofComillas and through the University website.

The following are the courses taught by IIT staff in different masters in which theInstitute participates.

3.1.1 Erasmus Mundus International Master in Economics andManagement of Network Industries (EMIN)

Coordinator: Javier García GonzálezMore information at http://www.upcomillas.es/emin/

- Advanced analysis of electric power systemsLuis Rouco Rodríguez

- The electric power distribution businessRafael Cossent Arín, Pablo Frías Marín, Pablo García González, Javier RenesesGuillén

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- The electric power transmission businessLuis Olmos Camacho, Michel Rivier Abbad

- The natural gas industry and fuel marketsJavier García González

- Fundamentals on electrical engineering and optimization techniquesFrancisco Miguel Echavarren Cerezo, Pablo Frías Marín, Javier GarcíaGonzález, Damián Laloux Dallemagne, Andrés Ramos Galán, Javier RenesesGuillén, Michel Rivier Abbad

- Environmental impact and renewable energyPedro Linares Llamas

- Introduction to electric power systemsDamián Laloux Dallemagne, Michel Rivier Abbad

- Wholesale and retail electricity marketsCarlos Batlle López, Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez

- Decision support models in the electric power industryEfraim Centeno Hernáez, Javier García González, Andrés Ramos Galán

- Regulation of the electric power industryCarlos Batlle López, Tomás Gómez San Román, Luis Olmos Camacho, JoséIgnacio Pérez Arriaga

3.1.2 Master in Electricity Generation. Promotion, Technology andOperation (On-line)

Director: David Soler SoneiraMore information at http://www.structuralia.com/mge

- Economic operation of electricity generation. Electricity markets.Tomás Gómez San Román

- Solar generationLuis Manuel Mochón Castro

- Hydroelectric Power Station Promotion, Investment analysis and economicviabilitySusana Ortiz Marcos

- Electrical Systems of Power StationsLuis Rouco Rodríguez

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3.1.3 Master in Fire Protection Engineering

Director: Alexis Cantizano GonzálezMore information athttp://www.upcomillas.es/eng/estudios/estu_mast_fire_prot.aspx?idIdioma=ENG

- Technology, methods and processes: modelingPablo Ayala Santamaría

3.1.4 Master in Project, Construction and Maintenance of HighVoltage Electrical Transmission (On-line)

Director: Fernando de Cuadra GarcíaMore information at http://www.structuralia.com/mat

- Maintenance management of high voltage power linesMiguel Ángel Sanz Bobi

- Maintenance management of high voltage power lines: models and strategies ofmaintenance: predictive, preventive, corrective, RCM and TPM.Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi

- Transmission LinesLuis Rouco Rodríguez

- Power lines parameters computationFrancisco Miguel Echavarren Cerezo

- Projects of high voltage infrastructures: design parameters of high voltageinstallationsLuis Rouco Rodríguez

- Electric high voltage infraestructure projects: electric infraestructure policy inSpainMichel Rivier Abbad

3.1.5 Master in Regulation of the Electricity Industry

Director: Carlos Batlle López

- Case study: distributionPablo Frías Marín

- Case study: wholesale marketsPablo Rodilla Rodríguez

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- Case study: tariff systemsCarlos Batlle López

- Case study: transmissionLuis Olmos Camacho

- Regulation of electric power: wholesale electricity marketsCarlos Batlle López

- Microeconomic analysis of the electric power industryMariano Ventosa Rodríguez

3.1.6 Master in Electric Power Industry

Director: Javier García GonzálezMore information athttp://www.upcomillas.es/eng/estudios/estu_mast_sect_elec.aspx?idIdioma=ENG

- Advanced analysis of electric power systemsLuis Rouco Rodríguez

- The electric power distribution businessRafael Cossent Arín, Pablo Frías Marín, Pablo García González, Javier RenesesGuillén

- The electric power transmission businessLuis Olmos Camacho, Michel Rivier Abbad

- The natural gas industry and fuel marketsJavier García González

- Fundamentals on electrical engineering and optimization techniquesFrancisco Miguel Echavarren Cerezo, Pablo Frías Marín, Javier GarcíaGonzález, Damián Laloux Dallemagne, Andrés Ramos Galán, Javier RenesesGuillén, Michel Rivier Abbad

- Environmental impact and renewable energyPedro Linares Llamas

- Introduction to electric power systemsDamián Laloux Dallemagne, Michel Rivier Abbad

- Wholesale and retail electricity marketsCarlos Batlle López, Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez

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- Decision support models in the electric power industryEfraim Centeno Hernáez, Javier García González, Andrés Ramos Galán

- Regulation of the electric power industryCarlos Batlle López, Tomás Gómez San Román, Luis Olmos Camacho, JoséIgnacio Pérez Arriaga

- Master Thesis monitoringJavier García González

3.1.7 Master in Railway Systems

Director: Antonio Fernández CardadorMore information athttp://www.upcomillas.es/eng/estudios/estu_mast_sist_ferr.aspx?IdIdioma=ENG

- Railway Systems ElectrificationEduardo Pilo de la Fuente, Luis Rouco Rodríguez

- Catenary mechanicsAlberto Carnicero López, Jesús Jiménez Octavio

- ERTMS and RAMSYolanda González Arechavala

- Design and Traffic Control Advanced SystemsAntonio Fernández Cardador, Asunción Paloma Cucala García, PiotrLukaszewicz

- Control and supervision systemsSadot Alexandres Fernández, José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar

3.1.8 Master in Electrical Technology

Director: Luis Rouco RodríguezMore information athttp://www.upcomillas.es/eng/estudios/estu_mast_tecn_elec.aspx?idIdioma=ENG

- Economy electricity sectorCarlos Batlle López, Enrique Lobato Miguélez, Mariano Ventosa Rodríguez

- ReliabilityAndrés Ramos Galán, Javier Reneses Guillén

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- Fundamentals thermal generationLuis Manuel Mochón Castro

- Renewable generationLuis Manuel Mochón Castro

- Hydraulic generationLuis Manuel Mochón Castro

- Nuclear generationLuis Manuel Mochón Castro

- Conventional thermal generationAlexis Cantizano González

- Environmental impact of electricity industryEduardo Pilo de la Fuente

- Introduction to electrotechnologyIgnacio Egido Cortés

- High-voltage networksEduardo Pilo de la Fuente, Luis Rouco Rodríguez

- Medium- and low-voltaje networksFrancisco Miguel Echavarren Cerezo, Pablo García González, Eduardo Pilo dela Fuente, Luis Rouco Rodríguez

- Central electrical systemsIgnacio Egido Cortés

3.2 Master theses

3.2.1 Erasmus Mundus International Master in Economics andManagement of Network Industries (EMIN)

- A modeling approach to cross-border balancingDamiano Ting. Supervised by Javier García González and Benjamin F. Hobbs.

- Comparative analysis of the current and the price coupling of region algorithmin the Spanish day-ahead marketMarina Georgieva. Supervised by Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez and Juan BogasGálvez.

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- Impact of distributed generation on remuneration of the electricity distributioncompany in Spanish electrical systemAndrija Petrusic. Supervised by Carlos Mateo Domingo, Rafael Cossent Arín andPablo Antonio Simón Caballero.

- Incentives for the deployment of electricity generation from renewable energysources in ColombiaAdrián Ceballos López. Supervised by Pedro Linares Llamas.

- Long term transmission expansion planning for Nigerian Deregulated PowerSystem.The future of electric vehicle in Spain (internship in KPMG)Egeruoh Chigoziri Cyrinus. Supervised by Andrés Ramos Galán and Juan JoséSánchez Domínguez.

- Market identification of fuell cell opportunities in onsite-power generation in theCalifornia commercial building sectorAlfonso de Celis Gutiérrez. Supervised by Javier García González and Chris Marnay.

3.2.2 Master in Electric Power Industry- Adaptación de un administrador de infraestructura ferroviaria como consumidor

directo en el mercado eléctrico españolGonzalo Julián Santander Palacios. Supervised by Javier Reneses Guillén andMaría Pilar Yuste Almestre.

- Análisis de las incertidumbres regulatorias en la Fase III de (EU-ETS)Beatriz Becerril González. Supervised by Julián Barquín Gil and EsperanzaAmann Fernández.

- Analysis of the impact of a nuclear phase-out in Spain in the operative cost ofelectricity generationJosé Ramón Soler Ferrer. Supervised by Javier García González and PedroLinares Llamas.

- Diseño y reglas de un modelo alternativo de pagos por capacidad basado ensubastas de energía firme para el sistema eléctrico españolJuan Francisco Pérez Herráiz. Supervised by Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez and JuanBogas Gálvez.

- Energy service companies: scenarios for investment in LED technology in SpainEmilio de Andrés Bárcena. Supervised by Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez.

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- Estudio del diseño de los sistemas de liquidación de desvíos. Propuesta de undiseño estándarAdelaida Nogales Gómez. Supervised by Michel Rivier Abbad and Susana AbadMuñoz.

- Hourly price curve modeling in interconnected marketsAlberto Carro Melero. Supervised by Javier García González and Sergio NogalesBecerra.

- Metodología de previsión de producción de un representante de último recursode régimen especialJuan Carlos Rucián Castellanos. Supervised by Eugenio Francisco SánchezÚbeda.

- Modelo de determinación de costes de generaciónMaría Carmen Vegazo Sánchez. Supervised by Eugenio Francisco SánchezÚbeda and Tomás Mansilla Arrazola.

- Modelos para la predicción de una cartera de parques eólicosGabriel Sánchez Pizarro. Supervised by Antonio Muñoz San Roque and IñigoRupérez García del Carrizo.

- Regulatory alternatives to meet the commitments derived from the greenpackage in a sustainable and efficient wayIrene Alonso Álvarez. Supervised by Pedro Linares Llamas, María José LópezQuílez and María Dolores García Rodríguez.

3.2.3 Master in Railway Systems- Observatorio de la sostenibilidad energética en los sistemas ferroviarios. La

herramienta "banco del conocimiento" del plan de sostenibilidad energética deRenfeSamuel García Saboya. Supervised by Juan Antonio Gil Vera and AsunciónPaloma Cucala García.

3.3 Other academic activities

3.3.1 Master courses- Andrés Ramos Galán, "Métodos y modelos de decisión I", Máster in Business

Administration and Engineering. Organized by Universidad Castilla - LaMancha. Ciudad Real (Spain).

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4. Research

4.1 Research areas

The IIT is divided into two main areas of research:

1) Power Systems (SE), that is mainly aimed at subjects related to the electricityand energy sector and in particular to the generation, transportation, anddistribution of electrical energy. It is subdivided into four areas:

• Modelling, Analysis and Control of the Electric Power Systems Area (MAC),dedicated to the development of computer tools for electrical studies related tosuch aspects as load flows, stability, transients, frequency-power control, powerplant regulators, voltage control, design of systems of electric feeding, protection,harmonics, and the impact of the distributed generation.Coordinators: Enrique Lobato Miguélez (until February 2012) and Luis RoucoRodríguez (since February 2012)Web page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/mac.php.en

• Smart and Green Networks Area (Redes), is focused on the analysis anddevelopment of models for the simulation and optimization of future electricitynetworks.Coordinators: Pablo Frías Marín Web page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/redes.php.en

• Regulation and Economics of the Electric Sector Area (RYE), centred onresearch into the organization, remuneration and regulation of the power systems(sector structure, market models, economic signals, tariffs and quality of service,etc.).Coordinator: Michel Rivier Abbad Web page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/rye.php.en

• Decision Support Systems in the Energy Sector Area (SADSE), which goal is toprovide assistance in the taking of decisions and in the technical-economicanalysis of the generation, transport and distribution systems in the energy sector.Coordinator: Andrés Ramos Galán Web page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/sadse.php.en

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2) Industrial Systems (SI), which is focused on activities in other technicalsectors. This area is divided into four different technical areas:

• Analysis and Design in Engineering Area (ADI), is dedicated to mechanicalelements design and to running complex simulations using a computer, speciallyfor general mechanical purposes as well as electromagnetism, wind grounds, etc.Coordinator: Francisco Nieto Fuentes Web page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/adi.php.en

• Railway Systems Area (ASF), aims to develop models and other custom-madesoftware tools, safety analysis and quality control, related with different topics ofrailway systems. These topics include the infrastructure design and management,the power systems planification and operation, as well as the railway trafficplanification and operation.Coordinator: Asunción Paloma Cucala García Web page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/asf.php.en

• Intelligent Systems Area (ASI), deals with the monitoring, diagnosis, reliabilityand maintenance of industrial processes, and modelling and prediction ofindustrial and economic systems.Coordinator: Álvaro Sánchez Miralles Web page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/asi.php.en

• Electronics and Control Group (GEA), works to develop electronicinstrumentation and microprocessors, power electronics, control engineeringapplications, signal analysis, electronic design, automatization and digitalcommunications.Coordinators: Sadot Alexandres FernándezWeb page: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/organizacion/gea.php.en

4.2 Research projects

Research projects in which they have worked during this academic year arecollected here, grouped by area and type of funding, along with a briefdescription of them. It also indicates the collaborating institution, dates ofbeginning and end, and the researchers involved.

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4.2.1 Power Systems Areas

4.2.1.1 Research and develop projects

4.2.1.1.1 Private funding• Dynamic excitation module technology

Alstom. April 2010 - April 2014. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez, Luis Díez Maroto,Fidel Fernández Bernal)Alstom has developed a dynamic excitation module technology. This module isadded to static excitation systems fed from generator terminals to improve thegenerator stability in case of network faults. This project will include thedevelopment of a reduced-scale test bank and will provide support to Alstom inthe simulation of the machine behaviour. It will also study the large disturbancestability mechanisms of synchronous machines and the design of advancedcontrol schemes of the dynamic excitation module.

• Planning of generation electricity marketsEndesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Javier Reneses Guillén, Julián BarquínGil, Antonio Bello Morales, Andrés Ramiro Delgadillo Vega)This project is included in the framework of a continuous research for theEnergy Planning Division of Endesa. It is aimed in the development of modelsfor medium term planning for generation power systems. More specifically theresearch is focused on: wind and solar generation modeling, and the impact ofnetwork constraints on the market equilibrium.

• Additional developments in the stochastic hydrothermal coordination modelMHE. Year 2011Iberdrola. January 2011 - December 2011. (Andrés Ramos Galán, Jesús MaríaLatorre Canteli, Santiago Cerisola López de Haro)The objective of the project is to improve the stochastic hydrothermalcoordination model integrated into the set of decision support models formarket operation planning and to do small improvements in other stochasticsimulation tool for the hydro system.The tasks developed are the following:a) Introduction of the Scottish Power system.b) Integration with other planning tools.c) Improvements in the SDDP decomposition algorithm.d) Flexibility in the time definition of the model scope.e) Improvement of the model interface and documentation.

• Improvements on the short-term model considering detailed characteristics ofhydroelectric units, and consolidation of the medium-term stochastic tool.Endesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Javier García González, ManuelChazarra Jover)The model EXLA is a model for optimal operation and planing of hydropowerunits and reservoirs in the medium and short term. It has been developed by the

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IIT in collaboration with the heads of the hydraulic management of theDirectorate of Analysis and Risk Management of Endesa. The project is dividedinto two parts. The first includes the computer tasks related with maintainingthe operational license EXLA tool, to support users and upgrade components.The second deals with new development tasks aimed at introducing newfeatures in the model to meet the needs identified as priorities.

• Models for strategic analysisEndesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Efraim Centeno Hernáez, JuliánBarquín Gil, Francisco Alberto Campos Fernández, Sonja Wogrin, MercedesVallés Rodríguez)This project is the continuation of a line of cooperation between IIT and Endesaabout Strategic Analysis of Generation Capacity Expansion. The main work isabout analysis and improvement of the algorithms and study methods used byEndesa in order to elaborate its yearly expansion plan and other studiesassociated to it. The result of this work is the tool EXPANDE. Aditionally a newtool (MERCO2) to estimate the price of CO2 emission allowances in underdevelopment.

• Support for planning and assessing in the Iberian Electricity MarketEndesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Javier Reneses Guillén, Julián BarquínGil, Pablo Dueñas Martínez, Andrés Ramiro Delgadillo Vega, Antonio BelloMorales)This project addresses the operation and planning in the context of the Iberianelectricity market. The proposal is framed into the on-going cooperation linefollowed by Endesa and IIT since 1998.Specifically, AGM 2011 is focused on the development of advanced tools forstatistical analysis and the improvement in the wind generation modeling. Theinteraction with a natural gas operation model and the improvement in theconsideration of secundary markets are also addressed in the project. Finally,the project deals with other tasks as the adaptation to the changes in theregulatory framework.

• MORSE: energy and reserve equilibrium and network constrained equilibriumEndesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (José Villar Collado, Francisco AlbertoCampos Fernández, Cristian Andrés Díaz Durán, Pablo González Gascón yMarín)MORSE is a model of the Spanish electricity sector, developed by the Institutode Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) in collaboration with Endesa. It is intendedfor strategic analysis of the evolution of this sector, especially when changes ofthe utilities structure, new regulations, or new generation technologies takeplace. Its core are its Conjectural Supply Function Market Equilibriums, at atechnology level, with different detail depending on the problem analyzed, thatinclude an algorithm for the endogenous computation of the conjecturedsupply functions. This collaboration focuses on the following aspects: firstly thesimultaneous energy and reserve market equilibrium, to adequately cope withthe importance of reserves given the increasing penetration of new interruptible

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sources of energy, that will required more chronological detail and possiblydecomposition techniques; secondly the equilibrium model with networkconstraints for the modeling of the European framework, with endogenousconjecture computation according to the agents structure and network linesstatus; finally the improvement of the uncertainty consideration, for exampleusing Montecarlo techniques.

• Operation gas Spanish marketEndesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Julián Barquín Gil, Javier RenesesGuillén, Pablo Dueñas Martínez, Antonio Bello Morales)This project is focused on the operation and forecasting in the context of theSpanish natural gas market. In particular, it is expected to improve theprototype that has been developed during the year 2010 with the aim ofrepresenting properly the operation in the natural gas market. The first phase ofthe proyect is focused on the validation of the prototype. Afterwards, someimprovements will be incorporated, such as the consideration of supplycontracts, the management of LNG vessels, the extension of the physicalsystem, and the introduction of strategic behaviour on behalf of the companies.During the project, the interfaces will be also improved so as to facilitate its useon behalf of the users at Endesa. Finally, it is expected to develop a tool basedon Montecarlo in order to take into account the uncertainty.

• Optimal bidding strategies for the seconadary reserve marketEndesa. March 2011 - December 2011. (Antonio Muñoz San Roque, EugenioFrancisco Sánchez Úbeda, Francisco Alberto Campos Fernández, José PortelaGonzález)The primary aim of this project is the development of a set of tools foroptimizing the bidding strategy of Endesa in the Spanish secondary reservemarket.

• Development of an optimization model for hydropower planning andoperationAcciona Energía S.A. June 2011 - December 2011. (Javier García González,Jesús María Latorre Canteli, Miguel Ángel Fernández Sánchez)The objective of this project is to expand the functionality of the hydropowerplanning and operation model developed for Acciona. This tool allows toobtain the optimal plannin and operation of hydropower resources in a marketenvironment, both in the short term and in the medium-long term.

• Additional developments to the model determining the impact of theintermittent generation in the system operationRed Eléctrica de España S.A. September 2011 - December 2011. (AndrésRamos Galán, Jesús María Latorre Canteli, Luis Olmos Camacho, KristinDietrich)Additional developments for studying the impact of the intermittent generationin the operation of the mainland Spanish system. These development havebeen:

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* Generation of synthetic series of wind forecasting errors for 14 and 24 hours* Detailed modeling of exponential startup costs for the thermal units* Preparation and analysis of the study case of mainland Spanish system foryear 2008

• Quantitative analysis of the impact of a European electricity market on theIberian marketEndesa. September 2011 - December 2011. (Javier Reneses Guillén, JuliánBarquín Gil, Mercedes Vallés Rodríguez, Andrés Ramiro Delgadillo Vega)The main objective of this project is to assess the impact of the futureimplementation of a European electricity market on the Iberian electricitymarket (MIBEL). The impact on electricity prices, as well as on generatedenergy will be quantified. The study will allow to identify the risk andopportunities that will appear for the incumbents agents of the MIBEL.

• Development of a decision support model to optimize the scheduling of thegenerating units of Endesa in the short termEndesa. November 2011 - October 2012. (Javier García González, MiguelÁngel Fernández Sánchez)The objective of this collaboration is to develop a decision support tool(EXCOM-2012) to obtain the optimal hourly schedulling of all the generatingunits (thermal and hydro) that belong to Endesa in the short term (10 days or 1week), with a chronological representation of time with hourly intervals.

• Planning of generation Iberian Electricity market. New developmentsEndesa. January 2012 - December 2012. (Javier Reneses Guillén, Julián BarquínGil, Antonio Bello Morales, Andrés Ramiro Delgadillo Vega, Pablo DueñasMartínez)This project is developed in the framework of a continuous research for theEnergy Planning Division of Endesa. It is aimed in the development of modelsfor medium- and long- term planning for generation power systems. Morespecifically, the research is focused on: modeling the mechanism and marketssubsequent to day-ahead market and development of hourly chronologicalexecutions.

• Impact of a European electricity market on the Iberian market. Analysis of2020 scenariosEndesa. January 2012 - June 2012. (Javier Reneses Guillén, Julián Barquín Gil,Mercedes Vallés Rodríguez)The main objective of this project is to assess the qualitative and quantitativeimpact of the future implementation of a European electricity market on theIberian electricity market (MIBEL), focused on the year 2020. The impact onelectricity prices, generated energy, generation margin, as well as on otherparameters, such as saturation and spread in interconnections will bequantified.

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• Iberian natural gas market operation. Supply optimizationEndesa. January 2012 - December 2012. (Javier Reneses Guillén, Julián BarquínGil, Pablo Dueñas Martínez, María Gil Medina)This project, which is included in the framework of a continuous researchbetween Endesa and the IIT, is focused on the operation and forecasting in thecontext of the Iberian natural gas market. In particular, it is expected theoptimization of the natural gas supply on behalf of the natural gas companiesconsidering the exercise of their natural gas contracts and the management(reception, diversion, loading) of the LNG carriers. Additionally, a module forthe efficient contracting of the natural gas infrastructure will be developed.Afterwards, conventional demand (households, industry, CHP) will besegmented. During the project, the interaction with the electricity market modelwill deepen and a support for carrying out multiple simulations will beprovided. Finally, uncertainty of relevant parameters, such as the demands orthe prices, will be incorporated.

• Assessing and forecasting on the Iberian Electricity Market. Modelingoperational statesEndesa. January 2012 - December 2012. (Javier Reneses Guillén, Julián BarquínGil, Andrés Ramiro Delgadillo Vega, Antonio Bello Morales, Pablo DueñasMartínez)This project is framed into the on-going cooperation line followed by Endesaand IIT since 1998 in the framework of operation and planning in the context ofthe Iberian electricity market.Specifically, AGM 2012 is focused on the modeling of operational states thatwill substitue the traditional load levels used in mid-term models. Besides, theproject will cope with the forecast of abnormal low prices in the day-aheadmarket, as well as the adaptation of the methodology to the forecasting ofabnormal high prices. Finally, the interaction with a natural gas operationmodel and the joint optimization of different markets will be addressed in theproject.

• MORSE: energy and reserve market, network constraints and investmentssignals.Endesa. January 2012 - December 2012. (José Villar Collado, Francisco AlbertoCampos Fernández, Cristian Andrés Díaz Durán, Pablo González Gascón yMarín)MORSE is a model of the Spanish electricity sector, developed by the Institutefor Research in Technology (Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica, IIT) incollaboration with Endesa. It is intended for strategic analysis of the evolutionof this sector, especially when changes of the utilities structure, newregulations, or new generation technologies take place. This collaboration focuses on improving the hourly equilibrium model (withendogenous conjecture computation) for providing energy and reserve prices,on applying the equilibrium model with network constraints and endogenousconjecture computation to the European market, and on including investments

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signals in the core tools to be able to make feasible extreme forecast scenarios,such as those with massive interruptible generation.

• Models for strategic analysisEndesa. January 2012 - December 2012. (Efraim Centeno Hernáez, JuliánBarquín Gil, Sonja Wogrin, Adelaida Nogales Gómez, Francisco AlbertoCampos Fernández)Joint work of IIT and Endesa about Strategic Analysis of Generation CapacityExpansion. The main objective is about analysis and improvement of thealgorithms and study methods used by Endesa in order to elaborate its yearlyexpansion plan and other studies associated to it. The results of this work aretwo tools EXPANDE capacity expansion) and a new tool (MERCO2) to estimatethe price of CO2 emission allowances in under development. The objetives ofthe project include maintenance of the firts model the enhancement of therepresentation on non-electrical sectors in the second one.

• Udating of the decission support tool EXLA and development of the watervalue curves moduleEndesa. January 2012 - September 2012. (Javier García González, ManuelChazarra Jover)The objectives of this project are mostly related to improvements in theuser-interface module, and EXLA information system, and also thedevelopement of the module that calculates the water value curves at eachreservoir of the hydro basins.

• Optimal bidding strategies for the seconadary reserve marketEndesa. February 2012 - September 2012. (Antonio Muñoz San Roque, EugenioFrancisco Sánchez Úbeda, Francisco Alberto Campos Fernández, José PortelaGonzález)The primary aim of this project is the development of a set of tools formonitoring and forecasting the Spanish secondary reserve market.

• Analysis of innovation in energy in SpainEconomics for Energy. March 2012 - December 2012. (Pedro Linares Llamas,Adela Conchado Rodríguez)The goal of this research is to collaborate in the annual report of Economics forEnergy, about innovation in energy in Spain. IIT has assessed the current andpast situation regarding innovation in energy in Spain, and has taken part in theformulation of proposals and recommendations for its improval.

• Development of a tool to optimize Global 3 strategy for day-ahead andreserve electricity markets in the mid-long termGlobal 3 Energía. March 2012 - July 2012. (Javier Reneses Guillén, FranciscoAlberto Campos Fernández)The aim of this project is to develop a tool able to jointly optimize Global 3strategy for day-ahead and reserve electricity markets, in a monthly or annual

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time scope. The tool performs a simplified representation of Global 3generation units (gas and steam turbines), based on the short-term modelEDIPO. The project includes a training course on the new tool.

• Pre-feasibility analysis on power highways for the Europe-MENA regionintegration in the framework of the Dii Rollout Plan 2050Desertec Industrial Initiatives (Dii). April 2012 - September 2012. (Michel RivierAbbad, Andrés Ramos Galán, Luis Olmos Camacho)The integration of the power systems of the MENA region with the Europeaninterconnected pool (ENTSO-E) is a key requirement to enable a massive powerexchange between the two areas coherently with the mission of Dii. Thisproject evaluates the grid transmission reinforcements required to meet such anintegration, for several medium and long horizon and different scenarios set byDii.

• Maintenance and new capabilities of Eon Tools 2012 to 2013. Economicassessment of Eon AGC (automatic generation control) system.E.ON Generacion, S. L. April 2012 - March 2013. (Enrique Lobato Miguélez,Pedro Sánchez Martín, Francisco Alberto Campos Fernández, Ignacio EgidoCortés, Elena Saiz Marín)The aim of this project consists of incorporating new capabilities identified byEon that might be required due to the market evolution (regulatory andoperational changes). The computer tools developed for Viesgo by IIT areGRIMEL, GRIMEL CORTO PLAZO, GHIAN, OFCccgt, PLAMER OFERTAS andPLAMER CASACION. GRIMEL OFERTAS creates the bids that Eon submits intothe differente electriciy markets, GHIAN optimizes with an annual and weeeklytime scope the hydro power plants of Eon, OFCcctg optimizes thestart-up/shut-down cycling of CCGT plants of Eon, GRIMEL CORTO PLAZOplans the electricity production by Viesgo assess in a variable time scope (fromone week to a month), and PLAMER OFERTAS and PLAMER CASACIONsimulates the electricity market with an annual time scope.In addition, an economic assessment of Eon automatic generation controlsystem (AGC) will be tackled.

• The future role of solar PV in US electric power systemsMIT. May 2012 - October 2012. (Carlos Batlle López, Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez,Andrea Veiga Santiago)The future role of solar PV in US electric power systems.

• Extensions of the SMAS3-Eurostag InterfaceRTE (Gestionaire du Réseau du Transport d'Electricité). June 2012 - December2012. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez)This project addresses the development of new capabilities of theSMAS3-Eurostag interface. SMAS3 is a computer package for small-signalstability analysis and control of power systems developed by IIT. Eurostag is acomputer program for long term simulation of power systems developed by RTEand Tractebel.

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• Impact of a European electricity market on the Iberian market. Analysis of2020 scenariosEndesa. July 2012 - December 2012. (Javier Reneses Guillén, Luis GonzálezSotres, Mercedes Vallés Rodríguez, Pablo Dueñas Martínez)The main objective of this project is to adapt the tool VALORE in order to carryout medium- and long-term forecasts in a European-wide scope, especially inthe CWE market (that, currently, includes France, Germany/Austria,Netherlands, Luxemburg and Belgium). The collaboration will also be focusedon the management of the data needed by the model and the treatment of theresults obtained.

• Analysis tools for the Iberian Electricity MarketGas Natural Fenosa. September 2012 - September 2013. (Carlos Batlle López,Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez, Samuel Vázquez Martínez)Analysis tools for the Iberian electricity market.

4.2.1.1.2 Public funding• Active distribution networks with full integration of demand and distributed

energy resourcesEuropean Commission. June 2008 - May 2013. (Pedro Linares Llamas, PabloGarcía González, José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar, Carlos Batlle López,Renato Dias Bleasby Rodrigues, Sadot Alexandres Fernández, RafaelSantodomingo Berry, Michel Rivier Abbad, Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda,Rafael Cossent Arín, Adela Conchado Rodríguez, Óscar Lago Vázquez, JavierJuárez Montojo)ADDRESS will research, develop and deploy technologies and processes toincrease usage of distributed Generation and Renewable Energy Resourcesthereby engaging in a new relationship between customers, generators andnetwork operators. ADDRESS aims to develop new innovative architectures forActive Distribution Networks (ADN) able to balance in real time powergeneration and demand allowing network operators, consumers, retailers andstakeholders to benefit from the increased flexibility of the entire system.Innovative use of communications, automation and household technologieswill be combined with new trading mechanisms and algorithms providing ADNwith low cost and reliable solutions. Customers will be encouraged into activeparticipation enabling them to change their consumption habits, adopting asmarter use of energy and saving money. A cost/benefit analysis of differentsolutions will be developed: the most promising will be tested in three siteswith different geographic, demographic and generation characteristics.

• Energy demand, public policies and adaptationXunta de Galicia. November 2008 - October 2011. (Pedro Linares Llamas)This research consists of a microeconometric analysis of energy demand, jointlywith the demand of capital goods in Spain. Although the analysis will becarried out only for Spain due to data availability, its results can easily be

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extrapolated to other countries in Europe, and will provide a soundmethodology also applicable in other countries.

• Charging strategies for using and integration of renewable sourcesIberdrola Renovables. December 2009 - March 2012. (Andrés Ramos Galán,Jesús María Latorre Canteli, Kristin Dietrich, Luis Olmos Camacho, FernandoBáñez Chicharro)The objective of this project is implemented in two levels:On one hand, we are going to model the behavior of the electric system in thelong term. To this end the role of the EV in the operation of the electric systemis represented in detail. The goal is to evaluate the impact of different levels ofpenetration of EV in different scenarios and observe the results in the operationof all the generators given a secure and stable system operation.On the other hand, we will study the optimal strategies of the electric systemand in particular of the EV to maximize the generation and use of renewablesources.For further details see http://cenitverde.es/

• CENIT-VERDE: characterization, operation modes and grid impact of electricvehiclesREE (Red Eléctrica de España). December 2009 - December 2012. (Luis RoucoRodríguez, Francisco Miguel Echavarren Cerezo, Alezeia González García)The aim of REE-IIT collaboration is the development of tasks 6.1 and 6.2 ofActivity 6 of the CENIT-VERDE project untitled "Integration of electric vehicleloading in the power system: infrastructures, network and services". Precisely,task 6.1 will address the characterization and operating modes of PHEVs andEVs, and task 6.2 will address the impact on the grid of the massivedevelopment of PHEVs and EVs.

• ENERGOS: models and systems for generation management in microgridsIndra. December 2009 - December 2012. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez, FranciscoMiguel Echavarren Cerezo, Alezeia González García, Lukas Sigrist)This project is a part of the CENIT Energos project leaded by Gas NaturalFenosa on smart grids. Within the framework of the task "Models and systemsfor generation management in microgrids", IIT team will undertake twosub-tasks: voltage control and reactive power management and load-frequencycontrol in microgrids.

• STORE: demostration project on energy storage technologiesEndesa. December 2009 - December 2012. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez, EnriqueLobato Miguélez, Ignacio Egido Cortés, Lukas Sigrist)STORE is a demonstration proyect supported by Fondo Tecnologico of CDTIand led by Endesa. The proyect will comprise the installation of energy storagesystems based on BrZn and NaS batteries and ultracapacitors in power systemsof the Canary islands. IIT will contribute in a number of tasks of the techicaland economic feasibility studies and experimental analysis.

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• Climate change and post-2012 regulatory regimeMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación. January 2010 - December 2012. (PedroLinares Llamas)A new regulatory regime of greenhouse gas emissions, to replace the KyotoProtocol, will be born in 2012. This project is interested, in a context ofregulatory prospective and from an economic approximation, in several keyissues for the definition, analysis and evaluation of Spanish climate changepolicies. In particular, the project will deal with the interactions andpreferences of climate change instruments, the influence of climate changeimpacts in the conformation of policies, and the economic and distributionalassessment of climate change policies in Spain. First of all, this project will offera review of the economic literature on international environmental agreements.Although the major objective will be to yield a group of plausible post-2012policy scenarios, during this phase some research gaps will be identified. In thissense, the project intends to yield advances in the field of game theory appliedto climate negotiations between states and blocks. Nevertheless, the mainoutput of this part will be the foundation and specification of simulations (infamilies of hypothetical scenarios) to be used in subsequent phases. Thesimulations will consider the main climate architectures under discussion andthe existing (EU) regulatory scenarios. A second objective is related to theselection, application and preferences for different instruments that are part ofclimate change policies. As the problem has a considerable magnitude andextent, being caused by almost every agent, the instruments should be powerfuland diverse (including environmental, energy or fiscal tools). However, anaccumulation of instruments can be counterproductive in terms of effectivenessand economic efficiency. Therefore, the subproject will deal with theinteractions amongst different instruments, both from positive and normativepoint of views. A third objective is to contemplate the role of inter-temporalpreferences and discount rates, of preference assessment with respect toprevention and mitigation policies, as well as of other environmental impactsnot previously studied, in the conformation of climate change policies and theirmodeling strategies. Finally, this project has as an objective the scenario-basedstudy of the environmental, economic and distributional effects from theapplication of different policies of climate change in Spain. With that in mind,the project integrates different methodologies and data. As a central core, adynamic applied general equilibrium model for Spain will provide the mainmacroeconomic effects, although other models will be used to solve theproblems related to the scarce data given to some key sectors or agents. Anintegrated use of a microsimulation model to contemplate the reactions anddistribution of regulatory burden across households, and a detailed model ofthe Spanish electricity system (origin of most of the emissions) will quantify theimpacts in that sector. Thus the project intends to increase the knowledge ofmatters that have traditionally been overlooked in Spain (at least with respect toEuropean standards). We believe that the project responds both to a clearacademic interest (in a growing discipline in Economics) and to the need toprovide rigorous answers to regulators and other social agents in a majorsocio-economic field.

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• MERGE - Mobile Energy Resources in Grids of ElectricityEuropean Commission . January 2010 - December 2011. (Michel Rivier Abbad,Tomás Gómez San Román, Andrés Ramos Galán, Pablo Frías Marín, JesúsMaría Latorre Canteli, Luis Olmos Camacho, Rafael Cossent Arín, Ilan Momber,Fernando Báñez Chicharro, Carlos Mateo Domingo)Electric power systems are facing a major new challenge (and henceopportunity): future massive integration in the electric grid of electric plug-invehicles (EV). Distribution and transmission grids and power systemarchitectures still follow planning rules and procedures defined for thetraditional operational paradigm. MERGE project identifies and preparessolutions for the operational problems that will be caused on the electric grid,to the generation sub-system and to its commercial operation as a result ofprogressively increasing deployment of EV. The conceptual approach involves the development of a methodologyconsisting of two synergetic pathways: - development of a management and control concept that will facilitate theactual transition – the MERGE concept; - Development of an evaluation suite that consists of methods and programs ofmodelling, analysis, and optimization of electric networks into which electricvehicles and their charging infrastructure are integrated.More information at http://www.ev-merge.eu/

• Transmission system operation with large penetration of Wind and otherrenewable Electricity sources in Networks by means of innovative Tools andIntegrated Energy SolutionsEuropean Commission. April 2010 - April 2013. (Javier García González, LuisRouco Rodríguez, Tomás Gómez San Román, Andrés Ramos Galán, MichelRivier Abbad, Enrique Lobato Miguélez, Elena Saiz Marín, Ignacio EgidoCortés, Pablo Frías Marín, Camila Formozo Fernandes, Alejandro ContrerasAlfonsín, Pedro Sánchez Martín)The aim with this project is to develop demonstration projects that will make itpossible to overcome several obstacles regarding a larger integration of windpower, and its contribution to the operation of the power system. A group of 6Transmission System Operators (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, TheNetherlands and Spain) with 2 generator companies, 5 manufacturers andresearch organisations, have proposed a set of 6 demonstrations in severalareas.The IIT is involved in different work packages of the project in three areas ofactivity: technological, economic and regulatory. One task is to supportIberdrola Renovables, responsible for the demonstration which will be checkedfrequently-active and reactive voltage-aggregation of wind farms. In addition,the IIT will lead the work package which will evaluate what is thetechnical-economic impact of the June demonstrations on the variouscountries, there will be a cross-sectional analysis of all of them to maximizeEuropean added value of the project, identify barriers that prevent scaling theresults of the demonstrations, and propose solutions to eliminate these barriers,such as new rules for the regulation of electricity markets.

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• ENERGOS: technologies for the automatic and intelligent management offuture distribution networksUnión Fenosa Distribución. July 2010 - December 2012. (Pedro LinaresLlamas, Tomás Gómez San Román, Pablo Frías Marín, Rafael Cossent Arín,Renato Dias Bleasby Rodrigues, Óscar Lago Vázquez)The main objective of the ENERGOS Project is to develop knowledge andtechnologies to move towards the implementation of Smartgrids. TheENERGOS project is within the CENIT Program 2009. Gas Natural and UnionFenosa are the leaders of the Project, and many leading Spanish electricitycompanies integrate the Project consortium. The IIT will collaborate withUnión Fenosa in different tasks. Firstly, barriers for the implementation ofSmartgrids and its economic assessment will be analyzed. Then, the economicinvolvement and barriers for the integration of micro-generation in activedemand management will be studied. Finally, an economic and regulatoryanalysis on the metering of different end-user services using the electricitynetwork will be performed.

• Future scenarios and global sustainability indicators for a sustainable andself-sufficient biocity (BIOCAS)Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción. January 2011 - December 2013. (PedroLinares Llamas, Yolanda González Arechavala, Ana María Santos Montes,Carlos Martín Sastre, José Carlos Romero Mora)The objectives of the project are twofold, although very much related. On theone hand, we define future scenarios to make them compatible with thestructural scenarios assumed for biocities, and to assess the behavior of thebiocity for each of them. We also assess the contribution of algi to biocities andto the general environment of the scenarios proposed. On the other hand, wepropose a set of global sustainability indicators for biocities, considering energyand environmental sustainability indicators, and also introducing economic,social or human capital indicators.

• Power electronics for the integration of renewable energy in the gridMICINN. May 2011 - December 2014. (Aurelio García Cerrada, Juan LuisZamora Macho, Miguel Ochoa Giménez)This project will investigate the contribution of Voltage Source Converters tothe integration of renewable energy in the grid. It will look into optimalexploitation of existing grids, more flexible and efficient power flow control andbetter utilization of existing grids with the contribution of power electronics. For the purpose describe above, this project will have three specific actions: (1) A new strategy to control power flows will be developed and fully tested. Itwill take the form of a Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC). (2) Studies will be promoted to improve the current knowledge of the use ofFACTS and HVDC in the Spanish grid. Models and tools will be investigated.(3) The results obtained in the national and international arena

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Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica, 2008-2011.

Project funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.

• The use of power electronics for the integration of renewable energy sourcesin electric power systemsMICINN. May 2011 - December 2012. (Aurelio García Cerrada, Luis RoucoRodríguez, Juan Luis Zamora Macho, Javier Roldán Pérez)This project will look into: (1) Power electronics control in distributed generation connected to weak grids(2) A comprehensive set of scenarios to analyse and simulatedistributed-generation schemes connected to week grids.(3) The simulation of wind-energy-related scenarios in weak grids(4) The development of ancillary equipment, control algorithms and protectionsystems to ease wind power integration in weak grids(5) the minimization or even substitution of complex flow-control devices suchas FACTS in transmission and distribution networks (6) The design of a test bench to study wind power integration in weak grids(7) The experimental validation of power electronics devices tailored to theintegration of wind power into weak grids(8) The design of intelligent power electronics devices tailored to the integrationof wind power into weak grids(9) The publication of new results in the specialized arena

Project funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, into Plan Nacional deInvestigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica, 2008-2011.

Project funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.

• Design and impact of a harmonised policy for renewable electricity in EuropeEuropean Commission. July 2011 - October 2013. (Pedro Linares Llamas,Carlos Batlle López, Michel Rivier Abbad)The work will comprise a detailed elaboration of feasible policy approaches fora harmonisation of RES support in Europe, involving five different policy paths -i.e. uniform quota, quota with technology banding, fixed feed-in tariff, feed-inpremium, no further dedicated RES support besides the ETS. A thorough impactassessment will be undertaken to assess and contrast different instruments aswell as corresponding design elements. This involves a quantitativemodel-based analysis of future RES deployment and corresponding cost andexpenditures based on the Green-X model and a detailed qualitative analysis,focussing on strategic impacts as well as political practicability and guidelinesfor juridical implementation. Aspects of policy design will be assessed in abroader context by deriving prerequisites for and trade-offs with the futureEuropean electricity market. The overall assessment will focus on the periodbeyond 2020, however also a closer look on the transition phase before 2020will be taken.The final outcome will be a fine-tailored policy package, offering a concise

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representation of key outcomes, a detailed comparison of pros and cons ofeach policy pathway and roadmaps for practical implementation. The projectwill be embedded in an intense and interactive dissemination frameworkconsisting of regional and topical workshops, stakeholder consultation and afinal conference.

• OPTIMATE—An Open Platform to Test Integration in new MArkeT DEsigns ofmassive intermittent energy sources dispersed in several regional powermarketsEuropean Commission (DG TREN). October 2011 - September 2014. (LuisRouco Rodríguez, Lukas Sigrist)The present project provides the necessary support to the EEGI Team gathering,in a structured and organised way, a team of top level players (research centres,SMEs, universities, in close coordination with ENTSO-e and EDSO for SG) todesign in a coordinated way with both TSOs and DSOs a set of accompanyingactivities to make sure that the EEGI will pass through the critical 2012-2014period (preparation of FP8, initial operation of ACER, increased specificationduties of the network operators) when dealing with the most complex electricitysystem in the world and to address the five remaining critical issues (costs,benefits, KPIs, knowledge sharing and financing) in involving all thestakeholders, to ensure the rational, fluid and stable EEGI workflow, as to reachsafely the 2020 European goals. The main contribution of IIT team is theleadership of work package 4 on replication and scalability of the projects onsmart grids.

• Comprehensive solutions for power quality issues and power-flow control,using power electronicsMICINN. January 2012 - December 2014. (Aurelio García Cerrada, Juan LuisZamora Macho, Javier Roldán Pérez)This project is devoted to: (1) A global analysis of series and shunt electronic converters to improvevoltage and current quality in electric power systems. (2) A global analysis of series and shunt electronic converters to optimizepower flows in power systems.(3) The promotion to multi-purpose and flexible series and shunt electronicconverters to be used in power systems.(4) the integration of power electronic converters in the dayly operation ofelectric power systems in order to study the advantages and disadvantages ofthis technology. (5) the analysis of power electronic devices in power systems with an importantparticipation of renewable energy sources.The above objectives are part of a coordinated project with Alcalá University.With this coordinated action, we intend: (a) To contribute to the global analysis of the integration of renewable energy inthe grid using power electronics.(b) To contribute to the global analysis of the use of power electronic convertersto improve voltage and current quality in electrical grids(c) To contribute to the global analysis of the use of power electronic converters

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to optimize power flows in electrical grids.(d) To contribute to find new electronic devices to improve the operation offuture electric grids (from micro-grids to HVDC super grids).(e) To investigate multi-purpose devices to obtain more efficient solutions.(f) To investigate the massive integration of power electronics converters infuture electrical grids.

• Modular development plan of the pan-european transmission system 2050Unión Europea. July 2012 - June 2015. (Andrés Ramos Galán, Luis OlmosCamacho, Michel Rivier Abbad, Luis Rouco Rodríguez, Jesús María LatorreCanteli, Sara Lumbreras Sancho)Analysis of the expansion of European electricity networks beyond 2030.

4.2.1.2 Consultancy and technological support

4.2.1.2.1 Private funding• Feasibility study and specification of a fast start system of gas turbines for

secondary regulationEndesa. September 2010 - August 2012. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez, FidelFernández Bernal, Ignacio Egido Cortés, Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda,Inmaculada Saboya Bautista)The aim of this project is to study the development of a fast start system ofhydro units for secondary frequency regulation. The purpose of such system isthe optimization of the provision of the secondary frequency regulationancillary service.

• Support, maintenance and new developments of the Reference NetworkModels of the Spanish Electricty SystemComisión Nacional de la Energía. January 2011 - December 2011. (MichelRivier Abbad, Tomás Gómez San Román, Javier Reneses Guillén, ÁlvaroSánchez Miralles, Carlos Mateo Domingo, Luis González Sotres, Manuel AlvarMiró)The aim of this project is to continue providing support and maintenance andalso new developments in the use of the Reference Network Models of theNational Electricity System under two different versions: i) the basic model, andii) the incremental model. These two models are used by the CNE as an input todetermine the allowed revenues of the electricity distribution companies.

• AGC system for the energy management system of ALPIQAtos Origin. April 2011 - November 2011. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez, FidelFernández Bernal, Ignacio Egido Cortés, Inmaculada Saboya Bautista)IIT has developed an AGC zone regulator adapted for Spanish AGC system.This project comprises the supply of the AGC zone regulator and itsincorporation to the SCADA system that Nucleo under subcontract of Atosdevelops for ALPIQ. This work will also provide technical assistance during the

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factory and site tests of the AGC system developed by IIT for the energymanagement system of ALPIQ supplied by Nucleo (Nucleo is a subcontractorof Atos). Factory tests will be performed in the Nucleo headquarters. Site testswill be performed in the ALPIQ zone.

• Collaboration with Inesc in the transient stability-voltage control study of thePortuguese transmission system on 2014INESC. April 2011 - December 2011. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez, Lukas Sigrist)In this prooject, IIT collaborates with INESC-Porto in a transient stability andvoltage control study of the Portuguese national transmission network underyear 2014 scenario for REN. IIT contribution is around tasks 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 ofphase 1 of the project proposed by INESC to REN. The objective of each of theabove mentiones taks is respectively: review of available FACTS technologies;selection of FACTS technologies; and ellaboration of phase 1 report.

• Southern Tenerife railway: study of the Tenerife transmission networkArdanuy Ingeniería. July 2011 - November 2011. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez,Ignacio Egido Cortés, Inmaculada Saboya Bautista)This project is aimed at simulating the Tenerife transmission network with theloads due to the the Southern Tenerife Railway. Tranmission lines, substationsand transformers needed to supply railway loads will be included in the modelof Tenerife power system.

• Reviewing and updating of the hc operation proceedings for constraintsmanagement in the hv distribution networkHC Energía S.A. October 2011 - April 2012. (Francisco Miguel EchavarrenCerezo, Enrique Lobato Miguélez, Luis Rouco Rodríguez)In the Spanish electric power system, the HV distribution network of Asturias isoperated by HC Energía S.A. (HC hereinafter). Due to carbon competitiveprices, Asturias was an exporting area, thus new combined cycle units wasinstalled in the 400kV network to export their production.From 2008, carbon became more expensive. In addition, the interconnectionbetween transport and distribution is weak, thus the production of the newcombined cycles in the HV network may not be used to feed distributionnetworks.Those facts imply a new paradigm in the HC operation strategy, and as aconsequence the need of new operation proceedings to avoid conflicts withREE, the Spanish TSO, and the CNE, the Spanish energy regulatory Comission.The objective of the present project is to review and update the operationproceedings of HC.

• Technical assistance in the tests of two generating units to incorporate themto the Cepsa regulating zone Núcleo. October 2011 - October 2011. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez, FidelFernández Bernal, Ignacio Egido Cortés)

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This work will provide technical assistance during the tests of two generatingunits to incorporate them to the Cepsa regulating zone. IIT has supplied CepsaAGC zone regulator.

• Assessment for biogas plants investments in RomaniaGED Capital Development S.A. February 2012 - March 2012. (Fernando deCuadra García, Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Carlos Batlle López)Short-term technical assessment (about two months) to help in thedecision-making process of an investment group. The investments to beanalysed are power generation plants with renewable technologies, and inparticular Biogas plants, in Romania and similar markets. The scope of theassessment includes the feasibility of the industrial projects, their profitabilityunder uncertain regulation frameworks (european and national policies forrenewable energies), and the structure of the investment projects themselves:partners, agreements, and flexible/adaptable strategies.

• Power supply restoration analysis for the Almaraz nuclear power plantINVESYDE S.L. April 2012 - April 2012. (Pablo Frías Marín)The objective of this project is the electrical analysis of the power supplyrestoring for the Almaraz nuclear power plant after a system blackout, usingdifferent hydro power plants.

• Grid access of new renewable power generationIberdrola Renovables. June 2012 - December 2012. (Luis Rouco Rodríguez)The aim of this project is updating the computer model developed by IIT tostudy of grid access of new renewable power generation. Preciseley, the accessof wind and thermal and photovoltaic solar will be evaluated.

4.2.1.2.2 Public funding• A think tank hosting an interdisciplinary network to provide knowledge

support to EU energy policy makingEuropean Commission. June 2010 - June 2013. (José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga,Julián Barquín Gil)The three year coordinating action THINK will improve the knowledge supportto policy making by the European Commission in the context of the StrategicEnergy Technology Plan. THINK is organized around a multidisciplinary groupof 24 experts covering five dimensions of energy policy: science andtechnology, market and network economics, regulation, law, and policyimplementation. The Think Tank will respond to the European Commission’sevolving needs on a semester basis and produce 12 dossiers and a book.

• European renewable energy networkEuropean Parliament. June 2011 - December 2011. (Luis Olmos Camacho,Julián Barquín Gil)

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This project carries out an analysis of existing network expansion plans relatedto the integration of RES energy, as well as of those academic and consultantanalyses on this same topic. Benefits resulting from the construction of thisinfrastructure are discussed. Finally, we propose to implement some regulatorychanges aimed at overcoming existing barriers to the construction of therequired infrastructure.

4.2.2 Engineering Design Area

4.2.2.1 Research and develop projects

4.2.2.1.1 Public funding• Economic and environmental assessment studies of energy crops

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. January 2009 - June 2012. (YolandaGonzález Arechavala, Francisco Nieto Fuentes, Ana María Santos Montes,Carlos Martín Sastre)On cultivos is a Singular and Strategic Project for Development, Demonstrationand Evaluation of the Viability of the Commercial Production of Energy fromDedicated Crops in Spain. On Cultivos has been recognized and supported as anational singular and strategic project by the Spanish Ministry of Education andScience. On Cultivos is a coordinated effort of enterprises, universities and R&Dorganisms to achieve the commercial deployment of energy crops in Spainfollowing the objectives of the present policy on renewable energies.The purpose of the subproject "Economic and Environmental Assessment ofenergy crops" is the analysis and assessment of environmental impacts using themethodology of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and economic evaluation of thedifferent stages of the main energy crops.IIT is responsible for the completion of life cycle analysis (evaluating theenergetic and environmental impact, as GHG emissions, water use, soileffects...) and economic analysis of liquid biofuels from cultivation to its use inthe vehicle (WTW, Well to Wheel), both for bioethanol and biodiesel.

• Simulation of the wind effect on the catenary-pantograph interaction ofhigh-speed trainsMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación. January 2010 - December 2012. (AlbertoCarnicero López, Jesús Jiménez Octavio, Cristina Sánchez Rebollo)The project aims to increase the little current knowledge that exists on the windeffect on the contact wire of railway catenaries and its influence on thedynamic interaction catenary-pantograph. Despite the fact that wind effect oncables is quite well-known, however, there is no much information about thewind effect on the dynamic interaction between catenary and pantograph andhow the galloping of the catenary can affect this process.This subproject tries to obtain numerical models that provided withexperimental data allow to understand the real effect of this phenomenon onthe contact force between the catenary and the pantograph. The contact force

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between these two systems determines the quality of the energy collection. Onone hand this contact force should be high enough to guarantee that there areno contact losses in order to avoid the production of electric arcs and theconsequent damage in the contact wire and the pantograph. On the otherhand, the contact force should lower enough inr order to decrease the wear ofthe elements of the collecting system. Hence, the interest of studying thephenomenon of the vertical oscillations produced by the lateral wind. Themodels obtained would help to understand the effect of this phenomenon andits relationship with the different geometrical and mechanical parameters of therailway overhead.The aim of the project is to make an approach to the problem at two levels: thefirst one will consist of simplified models, computationally economics, thatallow the understanding of the basic physics of the problem and the secondone will develop more complex models and with a high computational costthat allow to learn about the cases which are considered of interest using amore realistic approach.

• Future scenarios and global sustainability indicators for a sustainable andself-sufficient biocity (BIOCAS)Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción. January 2011 - December 2013. (PedroLinares Llamas, Yolanda González Arechavala, Ana María Santos Montes,Carlos Martín Sastre, José Carlos Romero Mora)The objectives of the project are twofold, although very much related. On theone hand, we define future scenarios to make them compatible with thestructural scenarios assumed for biocities, and to assess the behavior of thebiocity for each of them. We also assess the contribution of algi to biocities andto the general environment of the scenarios proposed. On the other hand, wepropose a set of global sustainability indicators for biocities, considering energyand environmental sustainability indicators, and also introducing economic,social or human capital indicators.

• National network of mechanical engineeringMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación. January 2011 - December 2011. (AlbertoCarnicero López, Jesús Jiménez Octavio, Cristina Sánchez Rebollo)The National Network of Mechanical Engineering sprang up in 2008 with themission to foster collaboration between various national research groupsframed within the area of Mechanical Engineering. Collaborate with theNational Congress of Mechanical Engineering and the National Meetings ofTeachers of Mechanical Engineering, and seize such meetings to have afollow-up activities. One of the main objectives of the Network is to promoteknowledge exchange and research between the groups.

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4.2.2.2 Consultancy and technological support

4.2.2.2.1 Private funding• Dimensional metrology spanish standardization comittee

AENOR. February 1999 - September 2013. (María Ana Sáenz Nuño)Management of the Technical Secretary of the Dimensional metrology spanishstandardization comittee and the development of the technical expertdelegation in the mirror ISO comittee.

• Ausbildung in Koordinaten MesstechnikAUKOM. July 2009 - July 2013. (María Ana Sáenz Nuño)The objective of the "Ausbildung Koordinatenmesstechnik e. V. – AUKOM" isto ensure an up-to-date, comparable, controllable and certifiable training incoordinate metrology in accordance with its capabilities. The organisationpromotes the basic, comprehensive and solid training in the area of industrialproduction metrology, in particular in the area of coordinate metrology. Theorganisation ensures the standard and comparability of the courses offered bythe members of the organisation within the coordinate metrology training. Itorganizes events for promoting the exchange between manufacturers, users andscience in the area of coordinate metrology training and publishes new findingsand trends from this area. It develops, promotes and spreads the "goodmeasurement practice" and furthers the Europeanisation of cooperation incoordinate metrology training. The IIT will control the training in Spanish.

• Kinematic simulation of the vertebral columnJavier Pereiro. February 2011 - September 2011. (Álvaro Sánchez Miralles,Ángel de Andrés Martínez)The aim of the project consists in making a kinematic simulation of thevertebral column, just after the application of a patented mechanism.

4.2.3 Railway Systems Area

4.2.3.1 Research and develop projects

4.2.3.1.1 Private funding• Regulation system for automatic driving of high speed trains

Patentes Talgo. December 2009 - April 2012. (Antonio Fernández Cardador,Asunción Paloma Cucala García, Carlos María Sicre Vara del Rey)The goal of this project is the design and development of a regulation systemfor automatic driving of high speed trains, in order to fulfill the programmedschedule in an efficient way.

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• Optimal design of ATO driving parameters for Metro BilbaoMetro de Bilbao. September 2011 - March 2012. (Antonio Fernández Cardador,Asunción Paloma Cucala García, María Domínguez Gago)The objective of this project is the design and implementation of ATO speedcommands in Metro de Bilbao lines. These ATO speed commands will beselected and sent to the train by the traffic regulation system in real-time. Foreach inter-station a set of 3 speed commands are designed, the flat outcommand and 2 regulation commands. The new ATO speed commands mustcomply with technical, operational and comfort restrictions and will minimisethe energy consumption.

• Modeling and computer implementation of the signal-lines network of therailway commuting lines of Madrid and BarcelonaKV Consultores. September 2011 - January 2012. (Ramón RodríguezPecharromán, Álvaro Jesús López López)The aim of the project is to analyze the current situation of the signal-lines ofthe commuting railway lines of Madrid and Barcelona, and to provideproposals to improve them. The load for these lines is steadily increasing andnew increments are expected associated to the installation of new devicesERTMS/GSMR. The main aspects of the project are the following ones:• Modeling of the signal lines and implementation of them in the applicationPowerFactory.• Validation of the model with electrical measurements (not included in thisproject).• Conclusions: identification of problems in the network and possibleimprovements.

• Traffic regulation system for Network Rail (U.K.)Dimetronic Signals. November 2011 - January 2012. (Asunción Paloma CucalaGarcía, Antonio Fernández Cardador)This project is a collaboration between Dimetronic Signals and IIT for thefunctional specification and design of new algorithms to detect and solve trafficconflicts, in order to fullfill the Test Harness requirements defined by NetworkRail. This project is in the frame of the new traffic regulation and control systemfor UK railway network.

4.2.3.2 Consultancy and technological support

4.2.3.2.1 Private funding• Optimal design of ATO driving parameters for Metro Barcelona

Dimetronic S.A. September 2011 - June 2012. (Antonio Fernández Cardador,Asunción Paloma Cucala García)The objective of this project is the design and implementation of ATO speedcommands in Metro de Barcelona lines. These ATO speed commands will beselected and sent to the train by the traffic regulation system in real-time. Foreach inter-station a set of 4 speed commands are designed, the flat out

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command and 3 commands parameterised by coast/re-motor speed or by theregulation speed, as well as the brake deceleration. The new ATO speedcommands must comply with technical, operational and comfort restrictionsand will minimise the energy consumption.

• Guide to apply the european norms to the train energy meteringAdif. November 2011 - November 2012. (José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar,Yolanda González Arechavala, Rafael Santodomingo Berry)The aim of this project is to generate a set of rules to apply the recent Europeanenergy metering norms to the Spanish case. It is specified the full chain:on-board energy measuring system, the on-board to ground communicationservice, the measurements repository, the repository communications withother services as substation energy measuring system or weather forecastservice, and the exchange of data for cross-border railway energy settlement.

4.2.4 Intelligent Systems Area

4.2.4.1 Research and develop projects

4.2.4.1.1 Private funding• DELFOS-E: short-term forecasting of the Spanish natural gas consumption of

the combined cycle power plantsIndra. June 2010 - November 2011. (Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda,Antonio Muñoz San Roque, Rocío Herranz Pindado, Alberto Gascón González)Enagas, the technical operator of the Spanish natural gas system, is in charge ofplanning the short-term operation of this system to ensure the continuity andquality of natural gas supply at any point in Spain. In order to carry out thiscoordination and optimisation work for the joint operation of the whole system,Enagas needs short-term forecasts of the natural gas consumptions at differentpoints of the pipeline network. Conventional demand for natural gas (which includes household, commercial,industrial and cogeneration consumption) is properly forecasted by Enagasusing specific tools developed for that purpose. However, during the lastdecade the demand for electricity generation has gained importance due to theincrease of the number of combined cycle power plants. This demand respondsto different consumption patterns, requiring a different type of forecastingmodels. DELFOS-E is a tool designed for short-term forecasting of the Spanish naturalgas consumption of the combined cycle power plants. The developedforecasting models use as input variables, among others, those provided by theSpanish electricity system and market operators.

• Power generation asset management based on continuous life monitoring inthe new context of high renewable energy penetrationIberdrola. October 2010 - September 2012. (Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, AntonioMuñoz San Roque, Jesús Ángel García Matos)

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In this PhD project a model for anomaly detection and diagnosis in industrialprocesses and components of the energetic sector will be developed. Its majoradvantage will be to anticipate anomaly’s evolution, what involves a major shiftin asset management. The proposed model will also anticipate the impact ofthese anomalies, both failures and efficiency losses. This will ensure thereliability and quality of the service while avoiding the economic, social andenvironmental costs resulting from power cuts, accidents or loss of energyefficiency that can cause failures in a power generation plant.

• Aggregation control center IIGamesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Álvaro Sánchez Miralles, IsmaelJaime Fernández Fernández, Antonio Muñoz San Roque, José PortelaGonzález)The project consists of developing an application for controlling andmonitoring several electrical vehicles. This application communicates with anembedded system onboard the car. The main objective of the application is tocontrol the state of charge of each vehicle while the constraints of an energeticdispatch are accomplished.

• SCIA system with a prediction modelGamesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Álvaro Sánchez Miralles, IsmaelJaime Fernández Fernández, Antonio Muñoz San Roque, José PortelaGonzález)The project consists of developing an application embedded in a PC104 boardwith Linux as operative system. It is installed in an electric vehicle. Thisapplication allows both managing the vehicle energy, and monitoring the stateof the car and batteries. A mobile telephone is the user interface of the holesystem. Besides, it communicates with an aggregator control centre.

• Application of data mining techniques for the monitoring and analysis of theSpanish electricity marketEndesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda)The primary aim of this project is the improvement of the information systemand the methodology implemented for the analysis of the Spanish electricitymarket operation and the characterization of participants bidding strategies.Taking as input the information published by the Market and System Operators,the proposed methodology establish the most appropriate mechanisms of datamining for its treatment, with the purpose of analyzing the bidding behaviour offirms and their pricing of the different generation technologies.

• MORSE: energy and reserve equilibrium and network constrained equilibriumEndesa. January 2011 - December 2011. (José Villar Collado, Francisco AlbertoCampos Fernández, Cristian Andrés Díaz Durán, Pablo González Gascón yMarín)MORSE is a model of the Spanish electricity sector, developed by the Institutode Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) in collaboration with Endesa. It is intendedfor strategic analysis of the evolution of this sector, especially when changes of

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the utilities structure, new regulations, or new generation technologies takeplace. Its core are its Conjectural Supply Function Market Equilibriums, at atechnology level, with different detail depending on the problem analyzed, thatinclude an algorithm for the endogenous computation of the conjecturedsupply functions. This collaboration focuses on the following aspects: firstly thesimultaneous energy and reserve market equilibrium, to adequately cope withthe importance of reserves given the increasing penetration of new interruptiblesources of energy, that will required more chronological detail and possiblydecomposition techniques; secondly the equilibrium model with networkconstraints for the modeling of the European framework, with endogenousconjecture computation according to the agents structure and network linesstatus; finally the improvement of the uncertainty consideration, for exampleusing Montecarlo techniques.

• Optimal bidding strategies for the seconadary reserve marketEndesa. March 2011 - December 2011. (Antonio Muñoz San Roque, EugenioFrancisco Sánchez Úbeda, Francisco Alberto Campos Fernández, José PortelaGonzález)The primary aim of this project is the development of a set of tools foroptimizing the bidding strategy of Endesa in the Spanish secondary reservemarket.

• Integration of forecasting tools at Enagas. Application to the medium-termforecasting tool for conventional demandIndra. June 2011 - September 2013. (Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda,Alberto Gascón González)Enagas, the technical operator of the Spanish natural gas system, is in charge ofensuring the continuity and quality of natural gas supply at any point in Spain.Enagas uses specific forecasting tools developed for that purpose.The aim of this project is to develop an integrated forecasting system able toprovide a coordinated view of the different forecasting time scales (short,medium and long term horizons). This process will start with the integration ofPATRONES, the medium-term forecasting tool of Enagas for the conventionaldemand.

• MORSE: energy and reserve market, network constraints and investmentssignals.Endesa. January 2012 - December 2012. (José Villar Collado, Francisco AlbertoCampos Fernández, Cristian Andrés Díaz Durán, Pablo González Gascón yMarín)MORSE is a model of the Spanish electricity sector, developed by the Institutefor Research in Technology (Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica, IIT) incollaboration with Endesa. It is intended for strategic analysis of the evolutionof this sector, especially when changes of the utilities structure, newregulations, or new generation technologies take place. This collaboration focuses on improving the hourly equilibrium model (withendogenous conjecture computation) for providing energy and reserve prices,

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on applying the equilibrium model with network constraints and endogenousconjecture computation to the European market, and on including investmentssignals in the core tools to be able to make feasible extreme forecast scenarios,such as those with massive interruptible generation.

• Development of SCIA and SCA systemsGAMESA. January 2012 - September 2012. (Álvaro Sánchez Miralles, AntonioMuñoz San Roque, José Portela González, Ismael Jaime Fernández Fernández,Álvaro Arranz Domingo, Manuel Alvar Miró)The project consists of developing an application embedded in a PC104 boardwith Linux as operative system. It is installed in an electric vehicle. Thisapplication allows both managing the vehicle energy, and monitoring the stateof the car and batteries. A mobile telephone is the user interface of the holesystem. Besides, it communicates with an aggregator control centre.Besides, an application for controlling and monitoring several electricalvehicles will be developed. This application communicates with an embeddedsystem onboard the car. The main objective of the application is to control thestate of charge of each vehicle while the constraints of an energetic dispatchare accomplished.

• Application of data mining techniques for the monitoring and analysis of theSpanish electricity marketEndesa. January 2012 - December 2012. (Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda,Alberto Gascón González)The primary aim of this project is the improvement of the information systemand the methodology implemented for the analysis of the Spanish electricitymarket operation and the characterization of participants bidding strategies.Taking as input the information published by the Market and System Operators,the proposed methodology establish the most appropriate mechanisms of datamining for its treatment, with the purpose of analyzing the bidding behaviour offirms and their pricing of the different generation technologies.

• Optimal bidding strategies for the seconadary reserve marketEndesa. February 2012 - September 2012. (Antonio Muñoz San Roque, EugenioFrancisco Sánchez Úbeda, Francisco Alberto Campos Fernández, José PortelaGonzález)The primary aim of this project is the development of a set of tools formonitoring and forecasting the Spanish secondary reserve market.

• Algorithm for detection of physical accesses from unknown sitesto to a socialnetwork for kidsSIMACH. March 2012 - September 2012. (Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, RodrigoJosé Andrade Vieira)This subproject is inside a wider project which name is SIMACH that is anintelligent system for detection of risk human conducts in a social network forkids. The main objective of SIMACH is to protect the users of the socialnetwork from possible risks.

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The objective of the subproject is to identify physical accesses to the socialnetwork that are not the typical used by a kid when access to the socialnetwork according to his/her behavior pattern. In the case that an improperaccess is detected an alarm is issued to the other modules of SIMACH in orderto investigate the case, and if necessary, to inform the person in charge of thekid.

• Wireless monitoring of physiological and physical parameters for sportsmedicineZurelite Sports Systems SL. March 2012 - July 2012. (Álvaro Sánchez Miralles,Romano Giannetti, Álvaro Arranz Domingo, Ismael Jaime FernándezFernández)The aim of the project is to design and develop a prototype for measuringphysiological and physical parameters for sports medicine. The prototype mustperform on-line and non-invasive measurements.

4.2.4.1.2 Public funding• SMARTCITY: alignment with the DENISE project

Endesa. October 2009 - March 2013. (Álvaro Sánchez Miralles, Álvaro ArranzDomingo, Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi)The aim of the project is to determine what aspects of the DENISE project couldbe used in the SMARTCITY project, exploiting synergies between both projects.Besides, activity monitoring of the SMARTCITY will be done, in order to assurean efficient alignment with the DENISE project.

4.2.4.2 Consultancy and technological support

4.2.4.2.1 Private funding• New developments for a small scale smartcity model

IBM. October 2011 - November 2011. (Álvaro Sánchez Miralles)The project consists in building a scale model, which will be on display at theIBM's Forum, with the aim of emphasizing the advantages of a smart city, likethe decrease of CO2 emissions and, in general, pollution reduction, amongmany others. In exchange for these benefits, it is necessary to invest ininfrastructure which allows to control and monitor the city.

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4.2.5.1 Research and develop projects

4.2.5.1.1 Private funding• Payment for Spanish patent ES200501425

ZURELITE SPORTS SYSTEMS, S.L. April 2012 - July 2012. (Romano Giannetti)Payment for the Spanish Patent ES200501425, with title "Método para procesarseñales fotopletismograficas obtenidas de una persona o animal, y oxímetroque utiliza dicho método", with a priority date of 13 June 2005.

• Development of a tunable pulse generator between 20ps and 4ns at afrequency between 1kHz and 10GHzFIDIAS Consulting. July 2012 - September 2012. (Carlos Rodríguez-MorcilloGarcía, Sadot Alexandres Fernández, José Daniel Muñoz Frías)The objective of the proposed collaboration is to design and develop aprototype of a tunable electrical pulse generator. The pulses will be generatedwith a minimum and maximum frequencies as close to 1 kHz and 10 GHz,respectively, with a minimum and maximum temporal pulse width as close to20 ps and 4 ns, respectively, and with an amplitude between 3 and 5 V at theinput of the generator and between 1 and 2 V at the output.

• Analysis and development of a microsite for NekicesaNEKICESA PACKAGING S.L. September 2012 - January 2013. (David ContrerasBárcena)The aim of this project is to analyze, design and develop a microsite to show aninnovation image of the company. This new site must show the progress ofNekicesa on products and services innovation, improve its search positioningand upgrade the european and national image of the company.

4.2.5.1.2 Public funding• Project ENERGOS: technologies for automated and intelligent management of

energy distribution networks of the futureSistemas Avanzados de Control. January 2010 - December 2012. (SadotAlexandres Fernández, Carlos Rodríguez-Morcillo García, José Daniel MuñozFrías, Ainhoa Cabetas Azcoitia, David Contreras Bárcena, Javier JuárezMontojo)The goal of Project ENERGOS «Technologies for automated and intelligentmanagement of energy distribution networks of the future» is the developmentof knowledge and technologies that advance the deployment of IntelligentNetworks. The main technological challenges of Intelligent Networks, are tackled indifferent lines of work of the Project. In the area of Business Management,includes the development of technologies for the creation of new environmentsOperation of the Network (including tools for simulation and estimation ofstates), the active demand management and the Planning and Optimizing.In the Area of Platform Integration and Communication, will work on the

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processes of acquiring and processing information in real time (with thedifficulties of the large volume of information being generated and thecriticality of its availability), the infrastructure necessary for the managementand recharging of electric vehicles and the requirements of supervision andcontrol of micro. Smart Network Devices, new techniques include signal acquisition, thedevelopment of intelligent devices and energy recording equipmentAutomation Network.The consortium, led by natural gas - Unión Fenosa Distribución, has thepresence of a leader in technologies such as Indra and prestigious companies inthe electricity sector as ZIV, AIA, Ormazabal, SAC, Diagnostiqa and thetechnology sector information as Visual Tools, Brainstorm, Prodevelop, andIndra Answare Software Labs.

• Power electronics for the integration of renewable energy in the gridMICINN. May 2011 - December 2014. (Aurelio García Cerrada, Juan LuisZamora Macho, Miguel Ochoa Giménez)This project will investigate the contribution of Voltage Source Converters tothe integration of renewable energy in the grid. It will look into optimalexploitation of existing grids, more flexible and efficient power flow control andbetter utilization of existing grids with the contribution of power electronics. For the purpose describe above, this project will have three specific actions: (1) A new strategy to control power flows will be developed and fully tested. Itwill take the form of a Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC). (2) Studies will be promoted to improve the current knowledge of the use ofFACTS and HVDC in the Spanish grid. Models and tools will be investigated.(3) The results obtained in the national and international arena

Project funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, into Plan Nacional deInvestigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica, 2008-2011.

Project funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.

• The use of power electronics for the integration of renewable energy sourcesin electric power systemsMICINN. May 2011 - December 2012. (Aurelio García Cerrada, Luis RoucoRodríguez, Juan Luis Zamora Macho, Javier Roldán Pérez)This project will look into: (1) Power electronics control in distributed generation connected to weak grids(2) A comprehensive set of scenarios to analyse and simulatedistributed-generation schemes connected to week grids.(3) The simulation of wind-energy-related scenarios in weak grids(4) The development of ancillary equipment, control algorithms and protectionsystems to ease wind power integration in weak grids(5) the minimization or even substitution of complex flow-control devices suchas FACTS in transmission and distribution networks (6) The design of a test bench to study wind power integration in weak grids

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(7) The experimental validation of power electronics devices tailored to theintegration of wind power into weak grids(8) The design of intelligent power electronics devices tailored to the integrationof wind power into weak grids(9) The publication of new results in the specialized arena

Project funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, into Plan Nacional deInvestigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica, 2008-2011.

Project funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.

• Comprehensive solutions for power quality issues and power-flow control,using power electronicsMICINN. January 2012 - December 2014. (Aurelio García Cerrada, Juan LuisZamora Macho, Javier Roldán Pérez)This project is devoted to: (1) A global analysis of series and shunt electronic converters to improvevoltage and current quality in electric power systems. (2) A global analysis of series and shunt electronic converters to optimizepower flows in power systems.(3) The promotion to multi-purpose and flexible series and shunt electronicconverters to be used in power systems.(4) the integration of power electronic converters in the dayly operation ofelectric power systems in order to study the advantages and disadvantages ofthis technology. (5) the analysis of power electronic devices in power systems with an importantparticipation of renewable energy sources.The above objectives are part of a coordinated project with Alcalá University.With this coordinated action, we intend: (a) To contribute to the global analysis of the integration of renewable energy inthe grid using power electronics.(b) To contribute to the global analysis of the use of power electronic convertersto improve voltage and current quality in electrical grids(c) To contribute to the global analysis of the use of power electronic convertersto optimize power flows in electrical grids.(d) To contribute to find new electronic devices to improve the operation offuture electric grids (from micro-grids to HVDC super grids).(e) To investigate multi-purpose devices to obtain more efficient solutions.(f) To investigate the massive integration of power electronics converters infuture electrical grids.

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4.2.5.2 Consultancy and technological support

4.2.5.2.1 Private funding• Guide to apply the european norms to the train energy metering

Adif. November 2011 - November 2012. (José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar,Yolanda González Arechavala, Rafael Santodomingo Berry)The aim of this project is to generate a set of rules to apply the recent Europeanenergy metering norms to the Spanish case. It is specified the full chain:on-board energy measuring system, the on-board to ground communicationservice, the measurements repository, the repository communications withother services as substation energy measuring system or weather forecastservice, and the exchange of data for cross-border railway energy settlement.

• Technical advice on hair removal equipmentsNo Más Vello S.L. November 2011 - June 2012. (Carlos Rodríguez-MorcilloGarcía)The goal of the collaboration is to technically assist No Más Vello S.L. onIntense Pulsed Light hair removal equipment (IPL system) and testing to verifycompliance with the European Directives 2004/108/EC and 2006/95/EC andUNE-EN 55014-1, UNE-EN 55014-2, EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3, EN61000-4-2, EN 61000-4-3, EN 61000-4-4, UNE-EN 61000-4-5, EN 61000-4-6,EN 61000-4-11, EN 60335-1 and EN 60335-2-27.

• Evaluation of a reseach project about microgridsAIDIT. February 2012 - June 2012. (José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar)The aim is to evaluate if the project covers the minimum to be valued asresearch and development project.

• Thermal analysis of electronic control of a children's attractionFidelidade Mundial. February 2012 - May 2012. (Carlos Rodríguez-MorcilloGarcía)The goal of the collaboration is a technical analysis of the electronic controlsystem of a small children's attraction to conclude whether it could be thecause of a fire, assuming it to be powered.

• Technical advice on irrigation systems of SAT Albatana, in Albatana(Albacete), and Sociedad Cooperativa La Mora y Los Tollos of Castilla LaMancha, in Ferez (Albacete)ABB. June 2012 - October 2012. (Carlos Rodríguez-Morcillo García, JoséAntonio Rodríguez Mondéjar)The goal of the collaboration is to technically assist ABB on automatedirrigation systems in the irrigation communities the SAT Albatana andCooperativa La Mora y Los Tollos.

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4.3 Publications

4.3.1 Books- T. Gómez, P. Frías, R. Cossent, "Las redes eléctricas inteligentes". Publisher:

Fundación Gas Natural Fenosa. ISBN: 978-84-614-6173-8. December 2011.

- L. Mochón, "Oleohidráulica Industrial". Publisher: Universidad PontificiaComillas. ISBN: 978-84-695-3134-1. April 2012.

4.3.2 Chapters in books- F. Bouffard, R. Belhomme, A. Diop, M. Sebastian-Viana, C. Yuen, H.

Devine-Wright, P. Linares, R. Cerero, G. Valtorta, "The ADDRESS EuropeanProject: a large-scale R&D initiative for the development of active demand".Chapter in the book "The Future of Electricity Demand: Customers, Citizens andLoads". Editors: Tooraj Jamasb, H-W; Pollitt, M.G. Publisher: CambridgeUniversity Press. Pp. 508. ISBN: 978-1-107-00850-2. September 2011.

- A. Ramos, S. Cerisola, J.M. Latorre, R. Bellido, A. Perea, E. López Rodríguez, "Adecision support model for weekly operation of hydrothermal systems byStochastic Nonlinear Optimization". Chapter in the book "StochasticOptimization Methods in Finance and Energy". Editors: Bertocchi, M.; Consigli,G. y Dempster, M.A.H. Publisher: Springer. Pp. 143-162. ISBN:978-1441995858. September 2011.

- A. Conchado, P. Linares, "The economic impact of demand-response programson power systems. A survey of the state of the art". Chapter in the book"Handbook of networks in power systems I". Editors: Sorokin, A.; Rebennack, S.;Pardalos, P.M.; Iliadis, N.A. y Pereira, M.V.F. Publisher: Springer. Pp. 581.ISBN: 978-3-642-23192-6. January 2012.

- M.A. Sanz-Bobi, D. Contreras, A. Sánchez, "Multi-agent systems orientated toassist with daily activities in the homes of elderly and disabled people". Chapterin the book "Human-computer interaction: the agency perspective (studies incomputational intelligence)". Editors: Zacarias, M. y Valente de Oliveira, J.Publisher: Springer. Pp. 131-167. ISBN: 978-3642256905. January 2012.

4.3.3 Publications in journals- M. Domínguez, A. Fernández-Cardador, A.P. Cucala, P. Lukaszewicz, "Optimal

design of metro automatic train operation speed profiles for reducing energyconsumption", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F:Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, vol. 225, nº. 5, pp. 463-474. ISSN:0954-4097. September 2011.

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- A. López-Peña, P. Linares, I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, "Análisis retrospectivo de laeficiencia de la promoción de las renovables y del ahorro energético para lareducción de emisiones de CO2 en España", Información Comercial Española,ICE: Revista de Economía, vol. 862, pp. 19-32. ISSN: 0019-977X. September2011.

- E. de-la-Rocha, R. Palacios, "Speed estimation of vehicles approaching anintersection, a digital image processing method", The Imaging Science Journal,vol. 59, nº. 5, pp. 293-302. ISSN: 1368-2199. October 2011.

- A. Cruz, A. Muñoz, J. Zamora, R. Espínola, "The effect of wind generation andweekday on Spanish electricity spot price forecasting", Electric Power SystemsResearch, vol. 81, nº. 10, pp. 1924-1935. ISSN: 0378-7796. October 2011.

- T. Gómez, I. Momber, M. Rivier, A. Sánchez, "Regulatory framework andbusiness models for charging plug-in electric vehicles: infrastructure, agents, andcommercial relationships", Energy Policy, vol. 39, nº. 10, pp. 6360-6375. ISSN:0301-4215. October 2011.

- A. da Costa, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, L. Rouco, R. Palacios, L. Flores, P. Cirujano, "Atool for the assessment of the electromagnetic forces in power distributiontransformers", Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, vol. 5, nº. 10, pp.972-977. ISSN: 1934-8975. October 2011.

- S. Wogrin, E. Centeno, J. Barquín, "Generation capacity expansion in liberalizedelectricity markets: a stochastic MPEC approach", IEEE Transactions on PowerSystems, vol. 26, nº. 4, pp. 2526-2532. ISSN: 0885-8950. October 2011.

- M. Nicoli, R. Cuerno, M. Castro, "Dynamical renormalization group study for aclass of non-local interface equations", Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theoryand Experiment, vol. 2011, nº. 10, pp. 1-42. ISSN: 1742-5468. October 2011.

- J.L. Velásquez Contreras, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, S. Galceran Arellanos, "General assetmanagement model in the context of an electric utility: application to powertransformers", Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 81, nº. 11, pp. 2015-2037.ISSN: 0378-7796. November 2011.

- R. Cossent, T. Gómez, L. Olmos, "Large-scale integration of renewable anddistributed generation of electricity in Spain: current situation and future needs",Energy Policy, vol. 39, nº. 12, pp. 8078-8087. ISSN: 0301-4215. December2011.

- L. Gelabert, X. Labandeira, P. Linares, "An ex-post analysis of the effect ofrenewables and cogeneration on Spanish electricity prices", Energy Economics,vol. 33, nº. Especial 1, pp. 559-565. ISSN: 0140-9883. December 2011.

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- C. Brighenti, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, "Auto-regressive processes explained byself-organized maps: application to the detection of abnormal behavior inindustrial processes", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 22, nº. 12, pp.2078-2090. ISSN: 1045-9227. December 2011.

- C. Fernandes, A. Candela, T. Gómez, "An approach to calibrate incentives forcontinuity of supply in the Spanish electricity distribution system", ElectricPower Systems Research, vol. 82, nº. 1, pp. 81-87. ISSN: 0378-7796. January2012.

- P. Rodilla, C. Batlle, "Security of electricity supply at the generation level:problem analysis", Energy Policy, vol. 40, pp. 177-185. ISSN: 0301-4215.January 2012.

- E. Lobato, I. Egido, L. Rouco, "Performance evaluation of ancillary services inthe Turkish power system", Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, vol. 88, nº. 01a, pp.122-126. ISSN: 0033-2097. January 2012.

- I. Egido, F. Fernández-Bernal, L. Rouco, I. Saboya, "Operation of rapid startunits in an AGC area", Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, vol. 88, nº. 01a, pp.141-145. ISSN: 0033-2097. January 2012.

- M. Alvar, A. Sánchez, A. Arranz, "Fast background subtraction using static anddynamic gates", Artificial Intelligence Review, nº. Online, ISSN: 0269-2821.January 2012.

- E. Saiz, E. Lobato, "Optimal voltage control by wind farms in distributionnetworks using regression techniques", Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, vol. 88, nº.01a, pp. 117-121. ISSN: 0033-2097. January 2012.

- K. Dietrich, J.M. Latorre, L. Olmos, A. Ramos, "Demand response in an isolatedsystem with high wind integration", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.27, nº. 1, pp. 20-29. ISSN: 0885-8950. February 2012.

- C. Batlle, I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, P. Zambrano-Barragán, "Regulatory design for RES-Esupport mechanisms: learning curves, market structure, and burden-sharing",Energy Policy, vol. 41, pp. 212-220. ISSN: 0301-4215. February 2012.

- S. Lumbreras, J.M. Lucas, "Una introducción a los mercados de futuros yopciones", Anales de Mecánica y Electricidad, vol. LXXXIX, nº. I, pp. 28-35.ISSN: 0003-2506. February 2012.

- M. Castro, R. Cuerno, "Hydrodynamic approach to surface pattern formation byion beams", Applied Surface Science, vol. 258, nº. 9, pp. 4171-4178. ISSN:0169-4332. February 2012.

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- E. Lobato, I. Egido, L. Rouco, "Monitoring frequency control in the Turkishpower system", Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 84, nº. 1, pp. 144-151.ISSN: 0378-7796. March 2012.

- C.A. Platero, M. Redondo, F. Blázquez, P. Frías, "High-speed de-excitationsystem for brushless synchronous machines", IET Electric Power Applications,vol. 6, nº. 3, pp. 156-161. ISSN: 1751-8660. March 2012.

- S. Beer, T. Gómez, D. Dallinger, I. Momber, C. Marnay, M. Stadler, J. Lai, "Aneconomic analysis of used electric vehicle batteries integrated into commercialbuilding microgrids", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 3, nº. 1, pp.517-525. ISSN: 1949-3053. March 2012.

- P. Sanz, E. Paz, J.C. del Real-Romero, J. Abenojar, J. Vaquero, F. Forriol,"Influencia de cefazolina y vancomicina en la resistencia al desgaste delcemento óseo", Trauma Fundación MAPFRE, vol. 23, nº. 1, pp. 59-63. ISSN:1888-6116. March 2012.

- J.R. Jiménez-Octavio, P. Rosa, "Proyecto de innovación educativa ICAI -GeoFotón", Anales de Mecánica y Electricidad, vol. LXXXVIV, nº. I, pp. 18-24.ISSN: 0003-2506. March 2012.

- E. Pilo, L. Rouco, A. Fernández-Cardador, L. Abrahamsson, "A mono-voltageequivalent model of bi-voltage autotransformer-based electrical systems inrailways", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 27, nº. 2, pp. 699-708.ISSN: 0885-8977. April 2012.

- D. Trebolle, P. Frías, J.M. Maza Ortega, J.L. Martínez Ramos, "El control detensión en redes de distribución con Generación Distribuida (I)", Anales deMecánica y Electricidad, vol. LXXXVIV, nº. I, pp. 21-28. ISSN: 0003-2506. April2012.

- I.P. Serrano, A. Cantizano, J.I. Linares, B.Y. Moratilla, I. Fernández, L. Sedano,"Numerical modeling and design of supercritical CO2 pre-cooler for fusionnuclear reactors", Fusion Engineering and Design, nº. online, ISSN: 0920-3796.April 2012.

- E. Saiz, J. García-González, J. Barquín, E. Lobato, "Economic assessment of theparticipation of wind generation in the secondary regulation market", IEEETransactions on Power Systems, vol. 27, nº. 2, pp. 866-874. ISSN: 0885-8950.May 2012.

- A. González, F.M. Echavarren, L. Rouco, T. Gómez, J. Cabetas,"Reconfiguration of large-scale distribution networks for planning studies",International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 37, nº. 1, pp.86-94. ISSN: 0142-0615. May 2012.

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- S. Cerisola, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, "Stochastic dual dynamic programmingapplied to nonconvex hydrothermal models", European Journal of OperationalResearch, vol. 218, nº. 3, pp. 687-697. ISSN: 0377-2217. May 2012.

- L. Sigrist, I. Egido, L. Rouco, "A method for the design of UFLS schemes of smallisolated power systems", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 27, nº. 2, pp.951-958. ISSN: 0885-8950. May 2012.

- J. Abenojar, M.A. Martínez, M. Pantoja, F. Velasco, J.C. del Real-Romero,"Epoxy composite reinforced with nano and micro SiC particles: curing kineticsand mechanical properties", The Journal of Adhesion, vol. 88, nº. 4-6, pp.418-434. ISSN: 0021-8464. May 2012.

- A.Q. Barbosa, L.F.M. Da Silva, A. Öchsner, J. Abenojar, J.C. del Real-Romero,"Influence of the size and amount of cork particles on the impact toughness of astructural adhesive", The Journal of Adhesion, vol. 88, nº. 4-6, pp. 452-470.ISSN: 0021-8464. May 2012.

- P. Dueñas, J. Barquín, J. Reneses, "Strategic management of multi-year naturalgas contracts in electricity markets", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.27, nº. 2, pp. 771-779. ISSN: 0885-8950. May 2012.

- S. Ortiz, "Medidas tecnológicas para mitigar el cambio climático", Icade:Revista de las Facultades de Derecho y Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales,nº. 86, pp. 165-192. ISSN: 1889-7045. May 2012.

- D. Trebolle, P. Frías, J.M. Maza Ortega, J. Tello, "El control de tensión en redesde distribución con generación distribuida (II)", Anales de Ingeniería Mecánica,vol. LXXXVIX, nº. II, pp. 11-19. ISSN: 0212-5072. May 2012.

- M.A. Sanz-Bobi, A. Muñoz, A. de Marcos, M. Bada, "Intelligent system for aremote diagnosis of a photovoltaic solar power plant", Journal of Physics:Conference Series, vol. 364, nº. 1, pp. 1201-1212. ISSN: 1742-6596. June 2012.

- X. Labandeira, P. Linares, K. Würzburg, "Energías renovables y cambioclimático", Cuadernos Económicos de ICE, nº. 83, pp. 37-60. ISSN: 0210-2633.June 2012.

- C. Maté, "El análisis de intervalos. Aplicaciones en ingeniería", Anales deMecánica y Electricidad, vol. LXXXIX, nº. III, pp. 20-27. ISSN: 0003-2506. June2012.

- J. Currie, M. Castro, G. Lythe, E. Palmer, C. Molina-Paris, "A stochastic T cellresponse criterion", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, nº. online, ISSN:1742-5689. June 2012.

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- M. Peña, A. Fernández-Cardador, A.P. Cucala, A. Ramos, R.R. Pecharromán,"Optimal underground timetable design based on power flow for maximizingthe use of regenerative-braking energy", Proceedings of the Institution ofMechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, vol. 226, pp.397-408. ISSN: 0954-4097. July 2012.

- M.M. Cledera, Y. Ballesteros, M. Pantoja, F. Velasco, "Environmental evaluationof silanes as adhesion promoters for organic coatings", The Journal of Adhesion,vol. 88, pp. 308-320. ISSN: 0021-8464. July 2012.

- S.M. López-Silva, R. Giannetti, M.L. Dotor, J. Silveira, D. Golmayo, F.Miguel-Tobal, A. Bilbao, M. Galindo, P. Martín-Escudero, "Heuristic algorithmfor photoplethysmographic heart rate tracking during maximal exercise test",Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, vol. 32, nº. 3, pp. 181-188.ISSN: 1609-0985. July 2012.

- M. Domínguez, A. Fernández-Cardador, A.P. Cucala, R.R. Pecharromán,"Energy savings in metropolitan railway substations through regenerative energyrecovery and optimal design of ATO speed profiles", IEEE Transactions onAutomation Science and Engineering, vol. 9, nº. 3, pp. 496-504. ISSN:1545-5955. July 2012.

- C. Fernandes, P. Frías, J.M. Latorre, "Impact of vehicle-to-grid on power systemoperation costs: the Spanish case study", Applied Energy, vol. 96, pp. 194-202.ISSN: 0306-2619. August 2012.

- P. Sánchez, G. Sánchez González, G. Morales-España, "Direct load controldecision model for aggregated EV charging points", IEEE Transactions on PowerSystems, vol. 27, nº. 3, pp. 1577-1584. ISSN: 0885-8950. August 2012.

- A. González, F.M. Echavarren, L. Rouco, T. Gómez, "A sensitivitiescomputation method for reconfiguration of radial networks", IEEE Transactionson Power Systems, vol. 27, nº. 3, pp. 1294-1301. ISSN: 0885-8950. August2012.

- R. Herranz, A. Muñoz, J. Villar, F.A. Campos, "Optimal demand-side biddingstrategies in electricity spot markets", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.27, nº. 3, pp. 1204-1213. ISSN: 0885-8950. August 2012.

- L. Sigrist, I. Egido, L. Rouco, "Performance analysis of UFLS schemes of smallisolated power systems", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 27, nº. 3, pp.1673-1680. ISSN: 0885-8950. August 2012.

- D. Trebolle, P. Frías, J.M. Maza Ortega, J. Tello, A. Rodriguez, "El control detensión en redes de distribución con generación distribuida (III)", Anales deIngeniería Mecánica, vol. LXXXVIV, nº. III, pp. 11-18. ISSN: 0212-5072. August2012.

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- A. Rodriguez, P. Frías, J. Reneses, C. Mateo, L. del Río, S. Bañales, "Mejora dela calidad del suministro eléctrico mediante centros de transformacióninteligentes", Anales de Mecánica y Electricidad, vol. LXXXVIV, nº. III, pp.11-17. ISSN: 0003-2506. August 2012.

- S. Lumbreras, A. Ramos, "Optimal design of the electrical layout of an offshorewind farm applying decomposition strategies", IEEE Transactions on PowerSystems, nº. online, ISSN: 0885-8950. August 2012.

- J. Munoz-Garcia, R. Gago, R. Cuerno, J.A. Sánchez-García, A.Redondo-Cubero, M. Castro, L. Vazquez, "Independence of interruptedcoarsening on initial system order: ion-beam nanopatterning of amorphousversus crystalline silicon targets", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 24,nº. 37, pp. 1-8. ISSN: 0953-8984. August 2012.

- C.A. Díaz, F.A. Campos, J. Villar, M.A. Rodríguez García, "Endogenouscomputation of conjectured supply functions with network constraints", ElectricPower Systems Research, vol. 90, pp. 117-125. ISSN: 0378-7796. September2012.

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4.3.4 Presentations in congress- L. Díez Maroto, F. Fernández-Bernal, L. Rouco, L. Sigrist, K. Chan, "Impact of

auxiliaries response on the voltage ride through capability of synchronousgenerator power plants", Communication in Cigrè Colloquium on NewDevelopment of Rotating Electrical Machines. Pekin (China). 11-13 September2011.

- I. Fernández, G. Veredas, I. Serrano, A. Cantizano, J.I. Linares, B.Y. Moratilla, J.Fradera, L. Batet, L. Sedano, "Numerical design analysis of alead-lithium/supercritical CO2 printed circuit heat exchanger at demo powerconversion ranges", Communication in International Symposium on FusionNuclear Technology (ISFNT-10). Portland (U.S.A.). 11-16 September 2011.

- I. Serrano, A. Cantizano, J.I. Linares, B.Y. Moratilla, I. Fernández, L. Sedano,"Numerical modeling and design of supercritical CO2 pre-cooler for fusionnuclear reactors", Communication in International Symposium on FusionNuclear Technology (ISFNT-10). Portland (U.S.A.). 11-16 September 2011.

- I. Momber, T. Gómez, M. Rivier, C. Mateo, "Benefits of EV supplier-aggregatorsand distribution system operators from applying smart charging of plug-inelectric vehicles", Communication in Cigrè International Symposium on TheElectric Power System of the Future: Integrating Supergrids and Microgrids.Bologna (Italy). 13-15 September 2011.

- L. González, C. Mateo, T. Gómez, J. Reneses, M. Rivier, A. Sánchez, "Assessingthe impact of distributed generation on energy losses using reference networkmodels", Communication in Cigrè International Symposium on The ElectricPower System of the Future: Integrating Supergrids and Microgrids. Bologna(Italy). 13-15 September 2011.

- S. Rohjans, M. Uslar, K. Piech, J.F. Cabadi, R. Santodomingo, "NewApplications of the Common Information Model", Communication in CigrèInternational Symposium on The Electric Power System of the Future: IntegratingSupergrids and Microgrids. Bologna (Italy). 13-15 September 2011.

- M.A. Sanz-Bobi, R.J. Andrade Vieira, X. Montilla, "Failure risk analysis andmaintenance effectiveness in a windturbine according to its history ofunavailability and applied maintenance", Communication in European Safety &Reliability Association Conference - ESREL 2011. Troyes (France). 18-22September 2011.

- J.A. García Matos, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, A. Muñoz, A. Sola, "Fault detection throughphysical modelling in an axial flow compressor of a combined-cycle powerplant", Communication in European Safety & Reliability Association Conference- ESREL 2011. Troyes (France). 18-22 September 2011.

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- M. Sáenz, J. Tutor, "Nanodyf Red José Roberto, leite de divulgación y formaciónen nanotecnología", Poster in V W N y NA 2011 Nanociencia ynanotecnologias analíticas. Toledo (Spain). 21-23 September 2011.

- E. Paz, Y. Ballesteros, J.C. del Real-Romero, J. Abenojar, "Efecto del tratamientosuperficial en la resistencia a fatiga de uniones adhesivas adhesivoacrílico/aluminio", Communication in XII Congreso de Adhesión y Adhesivos.San Sebastian (Spain). 29-30 September 2011.

- Y. Ballesteros, J.C. del Real-Romero, A. Zapico, J. Abenojar, L. Molisani,"Evaluación no destructiva de uniones adhesivas mediante métodos acústicos",Communication in XII Congreso de Adhesión y Adhesivos. San Sebastian(Spain). 29-30 September 2011.

- T. Gómez, "Integration of electric vehicles in smart distribution grids: regulatoryissues", Communication in 9th EU-US Energy Regulators Roundtable. Chicago,Illinois (U.S.A.). 3-4 October 2011.

- L. Li, M. Gariel, R.J. Hansman, R. Palacios, "Anomaly detection inonboard-recorded flight data using cluster analysis", Communication in 30thDigital Avionics Systems Conference - DASC'2011. Seattle, Washington(U.S.A.). 16-20 October 2011.

- R. Santodomingo, J.A. Rodríguez-Mondéjar, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, S. Rohjans, M.Uslar, "Towards the automatic alignment of CIM and SCL ontologies",Communication in 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart GridCommunications - SmartGridComm 2011. Brussels (Belgium). 17-20 October2011.

- R.J. Andrade Vieira, M.A. Sanz-Bobi, A. Câmara Mendonça, N. Sure Soeiro, G.da Silva Vieira de Melo, R.A. Aragão Galvão, "Identification of degradationbehavior on a rubber material using dynamic parameters and self-organizedmaps", Communication in 21st International Congress of MechanicalEngineering - COBEM 2011. Natal-RN (Brazil). 24-28 October 2011.

- J.C. Pérez, C. Combarros, D. Rubio, R. Veguillas, M.J. Hermosa, I. Egido,"TWENTIES project: wind power for wide-area control of the grid",Communication in 10th International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration ofWind Power into Power Systems as well as on Transmission Networks forOffshore Wind Power Farms. Aarhus (Denmark). 25-26 October 2011.

- A. Gascon, E.F. Sánchez-Úbeda, "Application of multi-objective geneticalgorithms to fitting piecewise linear models", Communication in 14thConferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial -CAEPIA’11. Tenerife (Spain). 7-11 November 2011.

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- E.F. Sánchez-Úbeda, A. Berzosa, "New variables to improve electricity andnatural gas consumption forecasting: dynamic degree-days", Communication in14th Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial -CAEPIA’11. Tenerife (Spain). 7-11 November 2011.

- F.P. Romero, M. Ferreira-Satler, I. Alonso, J.A. Olivas, D. Contreras, "Unaaproximación a la representación semántica de documentos basada en medidasde similitud entre conceptos", Communication in 14th Conferencia de laAsociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial - CAEPIA’11. Tenerife (Spain).7-11 Novimber 2011.

- S. Wogrin, B.F. Hobbs, D. Ralph, E. Centeno, J. Barquín, "Market power andinvestment decisions in electricity markets: open vs closed loop equilibria",Communication in INFORMS 2011 Annual Meeting. Charlotte (U.S.A.). 13-16November 2011.

- M.A. Sanz-Bobi, P.R. Castelló, J. Montes, "The process of industrial bioethanolproduction explained by self-organised maps", Communication in 2ndInternational Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Systems- ISCIES 2011. Coimbra (Portugal). 16-18 November 2011.

- G. Morales-España, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, "Modeling start-up & shut-downramps of thermal units in unit-commitment formulations", Communication inWorkshop "Advanced Optimisation methods and their applications to unitcommitment in energy management". Paris (France). 22 November 2011.

- S. Lumbreras, A. Ramos, "OWL (Offshore Windfarm Layout optimizer): applyingbenders’ decomposition to the optimal design of offshore wind farms",Communication in Conference on Optimization and Practices in Industry -COPI 2011. Paris (France). 23-25 November 2011.

- K. Dietrich, "Using demand response and flexible generation to reduceuncertainties in system operation", Communication in 11th Young EnergyEconomists & Engineers Seminar - YEEES. Madrid (Spain). 24-25 November2011.

- A. Bello, J. Reneses, J. Barquín, "Forecasting of abnormal low prices in theSpanish electricity market", Communication in 11th Young Energy Economists& Engineers Seminar - YEEES. Madrid (Spain). 24-25 November 2011.

- A. Carnicero, J.R. Jiménez-Octavio, M. Such, A. Ramos, C. Sanchez-Rebollo,"Influence of statics and dynamics on high performance catenary designs",Communication in International Conference on Pantograph Catenary InteractionFramework for Intelligent Control - PACIFIC 2011. Amiens (France). 8December 2011.

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- A. Moreno Barrado, M. Castro, "Ion beam induced stress in crystalline silicon",Poster in Understanding Molecular Simulation - MolSim 2012. Amsterdam(Netherlands). 9-20 January 2012.

- A. Danesin, P. Linares, "An estimation of fuel demand elasticities for Spain: anaggregated panel approach accounting for diesel share", Communication in VIICongreso de la Asociación Española para la Economía Energética. Pamplona(Spain). 26-27 January 2012.

- J.C. del Real-Romero, J. Abenojar, M.M. Cledera, F. Forriol, M.A. Martínez,"Evaluation of the influence of the addition of Vancomycin and Cefazolin onpolymerization kinetics of acrylic bone cement", Poster in 35th Annual meetingof the Adhesion Society. New Orleans (U.S.A.). 26-29 February 2012.

- J. Juárez Montojo, C. Rodríguez-Morcillo, J.A. Rodríguez-Mondéjar, "Simulationof IEC 61850-based substations under OMNeT++", Communication in 5thInternational Workshop to be held in conjuntion with Simutools 2012.OMNeT++ Workshop 2012. Desenzano (Italy). 23 March 2012.

- J. Matanza, S. Alexandres, C. Rodríguez-Morcillo, "PRIME performance underimpulsive noise environments", Communication in 16th IEEE InternationalSymposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications. Beijing(China). 27-30 march 2012.

- E. Lobato, P. Sánchez, E. Saiz, "Long term maintenance optimization of CCGTplants", Communication in 4th IEEE Asia-Pacific Power and Energy EngineeringConference (APPEEC 2012). Shanghai (China). 27-29 March 2012.

- E. Saiz, E. Lobato, P. Linares, "Optimal band provision by wind generation inthe spanish secondary regulation market", Communication in 4th IEEEAsia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference - APPEEC 2012.Shanghai (China). 27-29 March 2012.

- J. Roldán-Pérez, J. Zamora, A. García-Cerrada, "DFT-based controller for sagand harmonic mitigation with a series-connected compensator",Communication in International conference on renewable energies and powerquality - ICREPQ´12. Santiago de Compostela (Spain). 28-30 March 2012.

- S. Lumbreras, A. Ramos, "Decomposition strategies applied to the optimaldesign of offshore wind farms", Communication in 9th International Conferenceon Computational Management Science. London (United Kingdom). 18-20 April2012.

- F. Bañez, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, "Smart charging profiles for electric vehicles",Communication in 9th International Conference on Computational ManagementScience. London (United Kingdom). 18-20 April 2012.

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- P. Sánchez, "Stochastic programming applied to olive husk milling process",Paper in 9th International Conference on Computational Management Science.London (United Kingdom). 18-20 April 2012.

- J.M. Ortega, L. Ramos, A. Galarraga, A. Fernández-Cardador, A.P. Cucala, M.Domínguez, "Conducción económica en Metro de Bilbao mediante el diseñoóptimo de las marchas de conducción automática ATO", Communication in VIICongreso de Innovación Ferroviaria. Zaragoza (Spain). 7-10 May 2012.

- C.A. Díaz, F.A. Campos, J. Villar, "Impact of the electricity contracts on thegenerators’ strategic behavior", Communication in 9th International Conferenceon the European Energy Market - EEM 12. Florence (Italy). 10-12 May 2012.

- J. Villar, C.A. Díaz, J. Arnau, F.A. Campos, "Impact of plug-in-electric vehiclespenetration on electricity demand, prices and thermal generation dispatch",Communication in 9th International Conference on the European Energy Market- EEM 12. Florence (Italy). 10-12 May 2012.

- F.A. Campos, J. Villar, C.A. Díaz, A. Contreras, "Solving conjecturedmulti-leader-follower equilibriums for electricity markets with quadraticoptimization problems", Communication in 9th International Conference on theEuropean Energy Market - EEM 12. Florence (Italy). 10-12 May 2012.

- M. Vallés, J. Reneses, F.A. Campos, "Impact of the EU ETS on the europeanelectricity sector", Communication in 9th International Conference on theEuropean Energy Market - EEM 12. Florence (Italy). 10-12 May 2012.

- A.R. Delgadillo, J. Reneses, J. Barquín, "Electricity market model withstarting-up, shutting-down and commitment variables", Communication in 9thInternational Conference on the European Energy Market - EEM 12. Florence(Italy). 10-12 May 2012.

- G. Morales-España, J. García-González, A. Ramos, "Impact on reserves andenergy delivery of current UC-based Market-Clearing formulations",Communication in 9th International Conference on the European Energy Market- EEM 12. Florence (Italy). 10-12 May 2012.

- F.R. Blánquez, E. Rebollo, F. Blázquez, C.A. Platero, P. Frías, "High-efficiencyvoltage regulator and stabilizer for outdoor lighting installations",Communication in 13th international coference on optimization of electricaland electronic equipment. Brasov (Romania). 24-26 May 2012.

- J. Abenojar, M.A. Martínez, M.A. Rodríguez, J.C. del Real-Romero,"Conductividad térmica de composites de polietileno de baja densidad/boro",Communication in XII Congreso Nacional de Materiales - IBEROMAT XII.Alicante (Spain). 30-1 June 2012.

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- A. Bello, J. Reneses, J. Barquín, "Forecasting of extremely low prices in thespanish electricity market: a logistic regression and decision-tree approach",Communication in 12th International Conference on Probabilistic MethodsApplied to Power Systems - PMAPS. Istanbul (Turkey). 10-14 June 2012.

- F. Fernández-Bernal, "Wind speed time series generation for dynamic analysis: aproposal", Communication in 12th International Conference on ProbabilisticMethods Applied to Power Systems - PMAPS 2012. Istanbul (Turkey). 10-14June 2012.

- A. Perea, R. Bellido, P. Sanz, E. López Rodríguez, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, S.Cerisola, "Hydro-scheduling experiences in Iberdrola", Communication in 4thIEEE and Cigré International Workshop Hydro Scheduling in CompetitiveMarkets Bergen. Bergen (Norway). 14-15 June 2012.

- C. Martín, E. Maletta, P. Ciria, P. Pérez de Ayala, M.A. del Val, A. Santos, Y.González, J.E. Carrasco, "Can crop management improve emissions savings?:preliminary results of the optimization of rye (Secale cereale L.) as energy cropfor electricity production in Spain", Communication in 20th European BiomassConference and Exhibition. Milano (Italy). 18-22 June 2012.

- E. Maletta, C. Martín, P. Ciria, M.A. del Val, A. Salvado, L. Rovira, R. Díez, J.Serra, Y. González, J.E. Carrasco, "Perennial energy crops for semiarid lands inthe Mediterranean: Elytrigia elongata, a C3 grass with summer dormancy toproduce electricity in constraint environments", Communication in 20thEuropean Biomass Conference and Exhibition. Milano (Italy). 18-22 June 2012.

- A. López-Peña, I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, P. Linares, "Cost-Efficient decarbonisation ofspanish private road transportation: biofuels vs. electric cars", Paper in 31stedition of the International Energy Workshop - IEW. Cape Town (South Africa).19-21 June 2012.

- J. Portela, A. Muñoz, E. Alonso, "Day-Ahead residual demand curve forecastingin electricity markets", Communication in 32nd Annual InternationalSymposium on Forecasting. Boston (U.S.A.). 24-27 June 2012.

- M.A. Sanz-Bobi, R.J. Andrade Vieira, V. Gutiérrez, "Maintenance model basedon an estimated stress indicator of failure modes for industrial components.Application to wind turbines", Communication in 11th InternationalProbabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference & The AnnualEuropean Safety and Reliability Conference Scandic Marina Congress Center -PSAM11 & ESREL 2012. Helsinki (Finland). 25-29 June 2012.

- A. Moreno Barrado, M. Castro, "Cumulative stress by ion implantation of Xe+.Si: A Molecular Dynamics approach", Poster in 19th International Conferenceon Ion Implantation Technology. Valladolid (Spain). 25-29 Junio 2012.

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- A. Pueyo, P. Linares, "Renewable technology transfer to developing countries:one size does not fit all", Communication in 5th Atlantic Workshop on Energyand Environmental Economics. Galicia (Spain). 25-26 June 2012.

- A. Ramos, "Applied mathematics in the electricity industry management",Communication in 16th SEFI MWG Seminar Mathematical Educations ofEngineers. Salamanca (Spain). 28-30 June 2012.

- S. Lumbreras, A. Ramos, "Improvements to benders' decomposition. A reviewof acceleration and extension techniques", Poster in 8th Workshop on IndustrialSystems and Energy Technologies- JOSITE'2012. Madrid (Spain). 05 July 2012.

- C. Meseguer, "Metodología de diseño y desarrollo de productos basada en laingeniería concurrente: aplicación al diseño de utillajes progresivos",Communication in 6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering andIndustrial Management. XVI Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización. Vigo(Spain). 18-20 July 2012.

- S. Lumbreras, A. Ramos, S. Cerisola, "Efficient incorporation of contingencyscenarios to stochastic optimization. Application to power systems", Paper in21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2012).Berlin (Germany). 19-24 August 2012.

- E. Lobato, L. Rouco, L. Sigrist, M. Cruz, P. Fontela, J. Magriñá, E. Moreda,"Economic assessment of providing primary reserve service with energy storagesystems in isolated systems", Communication in Cigré 2012 Session 44. Paris(France). 27-31 August 2012.

- F.M. Echavarren, L. Rouco, A. González, "Dynamic thermal modeling ofinsulated cables", Communication in Cigré 2012 Session 44. Paris (France).27-31 August 2012.

4.3.5 IIT technical documents

Here are collected, the reports submitted to both companies at their request,within the framework of research projects listed above (usually confidential), aspossible articles or research papers not yet published.

- A. López-Peña, E. Centeno, J. Barquín, "Long term issues to be addressed byregulators in liberalised electricity systems: generation adequacy and indicativeplanning. Justification, available mechanisms, and a simulation study on someconcrete policies". September 2011. Ref: IIT-09-028A.

- L. Díez Maroto, L. Rouco, "Specification of the Test Bench". October 2011. Ref:IIT-11-171IC.

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- A. García-Cerrada, J. Roldán-Pérez, L. Rouco, "Estudio de revisión del estadodel arte de los problemas de las redes débiles: Informe sobre caracterización deredes débiles, problemas y soluciones". October 2011. Ref: IIT-11-174IC.

- A. López-Peña, P. Linares, I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, "A policy-oriented energyoptimisation model with sustainabiblity considerations". October 2011. Ref:IIT-11-157A.

- A. García-Cerrada, J. Zamora, "Active vibration cancelation for a cryo-coolercompressor in space applications [Details of the vibration-cancellationalgorithm]". October 2011. Ref: IIT-11-179IC.

- A. López-Peña, I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, P. Linares, "Renewables vs. energy efficiency:the cost of carbon emissions reduction in Spain". December 2011. Ref:IIT-11-199A.

- I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, "Long-term reliability of generation in competitive wholesalemarkets: a crititcal review of issues and alternative options". December 2011.Ref: IIT-00-098IT.

- J. Roldán-Pérez, A. García-Cerrada, J. Zamora, "Discrete repetitive controllerwith a non-integer number of samples per cycle and its application to an activepower filter". January 2012. Ref: IIT-10-001A.

- G. Morales-España, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, "Tight and compact MILPformulation of start-up and shut-down ramping in unit commitment". January2012. Ref: IIT-11-187A.

- S. Lumbreras, A. Ramos, "Optimal design of the electrical layout of an offshorewind farm applying decomposition strategies.". January 2012. Ref: IIT-12-011A.

- S. Wogrin, B.F. Hobbs, D. Ralph, J. Centeno Gonzalez, J. Barquín, "Openversus closed loop capacity equilibria in electricity markets under perfect andoligopolistic competition - The case of asymmetric electricity generation firms".February 2012. Ref: IIT-12-014A.

- I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, C. Batlle, "Impacts of intermittent renewables on electricitygeneration system operation". February 2012. Ref: IIT-12-013A.

- S. Cerisola, Á. Baíllo, J.M. Fernández-López, A. Ramos, R. Gollmer, "Stochasticpower generation unit commitment in electricity markets: A novel formulationand comparison of solution methods". February 2012. Ref: IIT-05-003A.

- J.M. Latorre, S. Cerisola, A. Ramos, R. Palacios, "Analysis of stochastic problemdecomposition algorithms in computational grids". February 2012. Ref:IIT-06-042A.

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- A. García-Cerrada, "Estado del arte y perspectivas para HVDC-VSC: Topologíase interruptores para VSC. Version 1.1". February 2012. Ref: IIT-10-030IC.

- J.M. Latorre, R. Palacios, A. Ramos, "Analysis of the performance ofbenders-based distributed decomposition methods for linear stochastic programming". February 2012. Ref: IIT-12-016A.

- J.M. Latorre, S. Cerisola, A. Ramos, A. Perea, R. Bellido, "Coordinated hydropower plant simulation for multi-reservoir systems". February 2012. Ref:IIT-12-017A.

- S. Lumbreras, A. Ramos, "Optimal design of the electrical layout of an offshorewind farm applying decomposition strategies.". February 2012. Ref:IIT-12-018A.

- A. López-Peña, I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, P. Linares, "Cost-efficient decarbonisation ofSpanish private road transportation: biofuels vs. electric cars". June 2012. Ref:IIT-12-053A.

- A. López-Peña, A. Danesin, P. Linares, I.J. Pérez-Arriaga, "Observatorio deEnergía y Sostenibilidad en España. Informe basado en indicadores". July 2012.Ref: IIT-12-061IC.

- C. Batlle, P. Rodilla, S. Cerisola, "Economic dispatch considering the cost ofo&m long-term service agreements". July 2012. Ref: IIT-12-069A.

- G. Morales-España, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, "Online companion for tight andcompact MILP formulation for the thermal unit commitment problem". July2012. Ref: IIT-12-072A.

- C. Batlle, P. Rodilla, "An enhanced screening curves method for consideringthermal cycling operation costs in generation expansion planning". July 2012.Ref: IIT-12-070A.

- F. Bañez, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, "Smart charging profiles for electric vehicles".July 2012. Ref: IIT-12-078A.

- F. Bañez, J.M. Latorre, A. Ramos, "Impact of different EV charging strategies inthe Spanish and Greek power systems". July 2012. Ref: IIT-12-079A.

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4.3.6 Other publications- Pablo Frías Marín, "Sistema de regulación de flujo luminoso de alto rendimiento

para sistemas de alimentación de alumbrado". Patent in Universidad Politécnicade Madrid, Universidad Pontificia Comillas. (Spain). April-October 2011.Num. de solicitud: 201000509. Num. publicación: 2348842. Inventores:Platero Gaona, Carlos Antonio; Blázquez García, Francisco; Megía Godoy,Cecilia Carmen y Frías Marín, Pablo.

- Álvaro López-Peña Fernández, "Informe V: España, en la confluencia de suspolíticas climática y de desarrollo". Technical Report in Centro de Investigacióny Estudios sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (CIECODE). Fundación SalvadorSoler-Mundo Justo. Madrid (Spain). October 2011.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, "Potencial económico de reducción de la demanda deenergía en España". Technical Report in Economics for Energy. Vigo (Spain).November 2011.ISSN 2172-8127,http://www.eforenergy.org/docpublicaciones/informes/Informe_2011.pdf

4.4 Software products

• Electric generation system reliability model (FLOP Model)(http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/aramos/flop.htm)The model calculates the Expected Energy Non Served (EENS) and the Loss OfLoad Probability (LOLP) for a prespecified set of periods in which the year isdivided. It uses discrete convolution method.The input data for the model are: demand in each period, modelled as achronological or load-duration curve, and generating units in each period:effective output in peak hours and availability rate. Generators are dispatched tosupply demand in increasing merit order given a price ladder (although this orderis irrelevant for reliability purposes). Price has only informative effects while areserve bid system isn't available. The results given by the model: for each period value of EENS, LOLP and price(only for the clearing process of power reserve bids) , graphs of EENS and LOLPevolution along the time, and graph of resulting price in each period .

• Bulk production cost model (StarNet Model)(http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/aramos/starnet.htm)A bulk production cost model determines the system operation variables thatminimize variable costs for a defined time scope. The model determines the unitcommitment binary variables and furthermore the unit output and power flowthrough the network. It is a short and medium term model. In the short termdemand is modeled chronologically, while in the medium term it considered as aload-duration curve.It can also be considered as a medium term Bulk Production Cost Model (BCPM)

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to obtain economic and unit operation forecasts.

• Reliability and Operation Model for renewable energy sources (ROM Model)(http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/aramos/ROM.htm)The model objective is to determine technical and economic impact ofintermittent generation (IG) and other types of emerging technologies (activedemand response, electric vehicles, concentrated solar power, solar photovoltaic)into the medium-term system operation including reliability assessment. Resultsinclude generation output including IG surplus, pumped storage and storagehydro usage, and adequacy reliability measures. The benefits of improving IGpredictions can also be determined by changing forecasting error distributions andre-running the model.A daily stochastic optimization model followed by a sequential hourly simulation.Detailed operation constraints such as minimum load, ramp-rate, minimumup-time and downtime of thermal units and power reserve provision are includedinto the daily stochastic unit commitment model. The hourly simulation is run forthe same day to account for IG production errors and unit failure and thereforerevising the previous schedule. This system modeling in two phases reproducesthe usual decision mechanism of the system operator. A chronological approach to sequentially evaluate every day of a year. Decisionsabove this scope as the weekly scheduling of pumped storage hydro plants aredone internally in the model by heuristic criteria. Yearly hydro scheduling ofstorage hydro platns is done by higher hierarchy models, as for example, ahydrothermal coordination model. Monte Carlo simulation of many yearly scenarios that deal with IG stochasticity.

• AGC software for the Spanish power system v2.0.1AGC software adapted to the Spanish Power System that outperforms othercurrent commercial alternatives. The software can be easily integrated in anycomplete SCADA system.

• IDAT is an intelligent information processing tool that includes technologies ofprocessing and visualization of information, as well as advanced analysis and datamining by means of statistical models and Artificial Intelligence techniques. IDAThas been developed at the IIT and is being used as analytical tool for diverseprojects.

• iMetro: subway best route calculator(http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/imetro/)Finds the best routes between two stations in a subway (metro) network (severalcities implemented)There are three versions of this application: iMetro WebApp (web access,Javascript algorithm), iMetro PHP (web access, PHP interface), and iMetroMulti-city (iOS application).- If possible, it finds three different solutions: o Fastest Route: based on minimun time estimation. o Minimum Connections: it is usefull if you have luggage, or just prefere aneasier route.

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o Handicap accessible: makes all connections at stations with handicap access.

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5. Doctorate

5.1 ICAI Engineers' Association

The IIT maintains a close relationship with the ICAI Engineers' Association inseveral aspects. On the one hand, the Association funds a portion of a doctoralthesis developed at the IIT every year. During this academic year, the thesisfunded was "Implicaciones de la continuidad de suministro en el diseño de latarifa de red de distribución", developed by Alezeia González García, andsupervised by Tomás Gómez San Román and Francisco Miguel EchavarrenCerezo.

Moreover, the IIT has agreed to publish some or their research at the Associations’official journal, "Anales de Mecánica y Electricidad".

5.2 Doctoral courses

The courses that comprise the Master in Research in Engineering SystemsModelling and the Master in Power Systems, of Comillas ICAI, relevant technicaland managerial problems to which the industry currently faces are describedrigorously, and are proposed approaches and methods for analysis and solutionbased on the latest research. These courses are conducted in collaboration withthe Departments of Comillas ICAI.

5.2.1 Master in Research in Engineering Systems Modelling

Director: Pablo García GonzálezMore information athttp://www.upcomillas.es/eng/estudios/estu_mast_inve_mode.aspx?idIdioma=ENG

- Data analysisEugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda, Carlos Maté Jiménez

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- Elaboration of a PhD thesisFrancisco Luis Pagola y de las Heras

- Simulation methodsPedro Sánchez Martín, Efraim Centeno Hernáez

- Deterministic optimizationAndrés Ramos Galán

- Forecasting techniquesAntonio Muñoz San Roque

- Preliminary researchAndrés Ramos Galán

- Master thesisAndrés Ramos Galán

- Writing technical papers in englishAurelio García Cerrada

5.2.2 Master in Power Systems

Director: Pablo García GonzálezMore information athttp://www.upcomillas.es/eng/estudios/estu_mast_sist_ener.aspx?idIdioma=ENG

- Elaboration of a PhD thesisFrancisco Luis Pagola y de las Heras

- Strategies in energy markets under the perspective of game theoryJavier García González, Julián Barquín Gil

- Review of state of the artAndrés Ramos Galán

- Seminars on research methods and toolsEugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda

- Master thesisAndrés Ramos Galán

- Writing technical papers in englishAurelio García Cerrada

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5.3 Doctoral seminars

The aim of the doctoral seminars is to provide students with basic informationabout various research techniques. With that, it is intended that students will beable to assess the potential usefulness of these techniques to determine adeepening in them or their possible application in projects and research.

- An introduction to decision theoryPedro Linares Llamas

- Applied forecastingAntonio Muñoz San Roque

- Bibliographic search and reference managementYolanda González Arechavala

- Data miningEugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda

- Database systemsÁlvaro Sánchez Miralles

- Developing web-based applicationsRafael Palacios Hielscher

- Fuzzy logicJosé Villar Collado

- Genetic algorithmsEugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda

- Graphic visualization with MatlabEugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda

- Multivariate analysis techniquesCarlos Maté Jiménez

- Object oriented programmingJosé Villar Collado

- Optimization techniquesAndrés Ramos Galán

- Oral presentation of scientific papersAurelio García Cerrada

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- Scientific computing with MatlabRafael Palacios Hielscher

- Simulation techniquesPedro Sánchez Martín

- Visual basic for applicationsJesús María Latorre Canteli

- Writing scientific papers with LaTeXRomano Giannetti

5.4 Research sufficiency degree

The following doctoral students, whose tutor is a researcher at IIT, have obtainedthe Master Degree, through public defense of the Final Project:

5.4.1 Master in Research in Engineering Systems Modelling- Assessment of energy-saving tecniques in DC-electrified mass transport systems

Álvaro Jesús López López. Supervised by Ramón Rodríguez Pecharromán.

- Optimal design of the electrical layout of an offshore wind applyingdecomposition strategiesSara Lumbreras Sancho. Supervised by Andrés Ramos Galán.

- A monocular lightweight fingerprint for location recognition in topologicalnavigationJaime Boal Martín-Larrauri. Supervised by Álvaro Sánchez Miralles.

- Capacity fade and aging models for electric batteries and optimal chargingstrategyIsmael Jaime Fernández Fernández. Supervised by Álvaro Sánchez Miralles.

- Influence of atrium roof geometries on the numerical validation of fire testsunder natural ventilation conditionsPablo Ayala Santamaría. Supervised by Alexis Cantizano González.

- The thor model: an automatic non linear additive model for time seriesAlberto Gascón González. Supervised by Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda.

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5.4.2 Master in Power Systems- ANDREA: a long-term dynamic planning tool for substransmission electricity

networksEsther Gutiérrez Alonso. Supervised by Tomás Gómez San Román.

- Optimal voltage control by wind farms using data miningElena Saiz Marín. Supervised by Enrique Lobato Miguélez.

- Rapid-start unit providing secondary frequency controlInmaculada Saboya Bautista. Supervised by Ignacio Egido Cortés.

- Multi-objetive stochastic optimization model for the hourly hydro scheduling inthe day-ahead and the secondary regulation marketManuel Chazarra Jover. Supervised by Javier García González.

- Impact of different EV charging strategies in the Spanish and Greek powersystemsFernando Báñez Chicharro. Supervised by Jesús María Latorre Canteli.

- Large-scale MV/LV substation planning considering network costs and flexiblearea decompositionLuis González Sotres. Supervised by Carlos Mateo Domingo.

- Medium-term forecasting of extremely low prices in electricity markets:application in the Spanish caseAntonio Bello Morales. Supervised by Javier Reneses Guillén.

- Joint optimization of the short and medium term hydro scheduling problem witha very detailed representation of the hydro chainMiguel Ángel Fernández Sánchez. Supervised by Javier García González.

- The cost of CO2 emission abatement for the power sector in Phase III of the EUETSMercedes Vallés Rodríguez. Supervised by Efraim Centeno Hernáez and JavierReneses Guillén.

- How do the benefits from AD vary? A comparison of four EU countriesÓscar Lago Vázquez. Supervised by Pedro Linares Llamas.

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5.5 Doctoral theses

The following doctoral theses defended in this academic year or currently indevelopment are or have been conducted and led by researchers at the IIT.Usually, these theses are developed in conjunction or in close relationship withsome of the research projects mentioned above.

5.5.1 Submitted theses- Title: Durabilidad de uniones adhesivas de aluminio con adhesivos acrílicos

tenaces empleando tratamientos superficiales medioambientales responsablesAuthor: Juan Carlos del Real RomeroSupervisor: Miguel Ángel Martínez CasanovaDate: October 24, 2011

5.5.2 Ongoing theses- Title: Estudio de sistemas termoeléctricos mediante el método de los elementos

de contorno y técnicas experimentalesAuthor: Jorge Vázquez AriasSupervisor: Rafael Palacios Hielscher

- Title: Diseño de tarifas eléctricas: tarifas de redes de distribuciónAuthor: María Pía Rodríguez OrtegaSupervisors: Jesús Pascual Peco González and Juan Rivier Abbad

- Title: Desarrollo de un modelo de red de referencia para la regulación de ladistribuciónAuthor: Javier Cimadevila GarcíaSupervisor: Juan Rivier Abbad

- Title: Metodología de ayuda a la decisión para la electrificación rural apropiadaen países en vías de desarrolloAuthor: Francisco Javier Santos PérezSupervisor: Pedro Linares Llamas

- Title: Diagnóstico bioquímico y tecnológico de un proceso de producción debioetanol mediante aprendizaje automáticoAuthor: Pablo Ruiz CastellóSupervisors: Julio Montes Ponce de León and Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi

- Title: Análisis de mercados eléctricos no ideales: interconexiones y funciones decostes no convexasAuthor: Félix Fernández MenéndezSupervisors: Julián Barquín Gil and Begoña Vitoriano Villanueva

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- Title: Implicaciones de la continuidad de suministro en el diseño de la tarifa dered de distribuciónAuthor: Alezeia González GarcíaSupervisors: Tomás Gómez San Román and Francisco Miguel EchavarrenCerezo

- Title: Predicción a corto plazo del precio de la electricidad mediante modelosde series temporales con cambio de régimenAuthor: Alberto Miguel Cruz GarcíaSupervisor: Antonio Muñoz San Roque

- Title: Economic regulation of distribution system operators and its adaptation tothe penetration of distributed energy resources and smart grid technologiesAuthor: Rafael Cossent ArínSupervisor: Tomás Gómez San Román

- Title: Armonización de los modelos de información de las redes eléctricas aplicando conceptos de la web semánticaAuthor: Rafael Santodomingo BerrySupervisors: José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar and Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi

- Title: Contributions to interpretable nonparametric regression. An application tomid-term forecasting of energy demandAuthor: Ana Berzosa MuñozSupervisor: Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda

- Title: Electricity market analysis with bilevel mathematical programmingtechniquesAuthor: Sonja WogrinSupervisors: Efraim Centeno Hernáez and Julián Barquín Gil

- Title: Analysis of oligopolistic electricity markets with network constraintsAuthor: Cristian Andrés Díaz DuránSupervisors: Francisco Alberto Campos Fernández and José Villar Collado

- Title: Strategic analysis of the joint operation of natural gas and electricitymarkets in the medium termAuthor: Pablo Dueñas MartínezSupervisors: Javier Reneses Guillén and Julián Barquín Gil

- Title: Conducción eficiente de trenes metropolitanos con ATOAuthor: María Domínguez GagoSupervisors: Antonio Fernández Cardador and Asunción Paloma Cucala García

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- Title: Diseño eficiente de servicios ferroviarios y control de la conducción enAlta Velocidad.Author: Carlos María Sicre Vara del ReySupervisors: Asunción Paloma Cucala García and Antonio Fernández Cardador

- Title: Hybrid modeling for electricity policy assessmentsAuthor: Renato Dias Bleasby RodriguesSupervisors: Pedro Linares Llamas and Antonio Gómez Gómez-Plana

- Title: Evaluation and design of sustainable energy policies: an application to thecase of SpainAuthor: Álvaro López-Peña FernándezSupervisors: José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga and Pedro Linares Llamas

- Title: Modelos de detección de comportamientos de personas en situacionesreales usando visión artificial. Aplicación a los sistemas de seguridadAuthor: Manuel Alvar MiróSupervisor: Álvaro Sánchez Miralles

- Title: Life-Centered maintenance management (LCMM). Gestión delmantenimiento centrada en la vida.Author: Rodrigo José Andrade VieiraSupervisor: Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi

- Title: Analysis of the impact of subsequent markets and mechanisms used toresolve technical constraints on wholesale electricity marketsAuthor: Andrés Ramiro Delgadillo VegaSupervisors: Javier Reneses Guillén and Julián Barquín Gil

- Title: Demand side management and its contribution to regulation reserves inelectric systemsAuthor: Kristin DietrichSupervisors: Luis Olmos Camacho and Jesús María Latorre Canteli

- Title: Navegación de un robot móvil autónomo mediante SLAM métricoutilizando únicamente visión por computadorAuthor: Álvaro Arranz DomingoSupervisors: Álvaro Sánchez Miralles and Arturo de la Escalera Hueso

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6. Other activities

6.1 EES-UETP

Web page: http://www.ees-uetp.com/

The Electric Energy Systems - University Enterprise Training Partnership(EES-UETP) is a consortium of 4 companies and 25 universities and researchcenters in 15 European countries. They started operations in July 1992 under theprogram COMETT (COMmunity program for Education and Training inTechnology).

The main objective of the EES-UETP is to increase the competitiveness andprofitability of the electricity sector through technology training. In this sense, themain activities of the EES-UETP are the organization of advanced courses inelectric power systems and exchanges of students and researchers.

The main activities of the ESS-UETP are financed through contributions from itsindustrial partners.

6.1.1 EES-UETP partners

Currently, the partners of the ESS-UETP are as detailed below, classified bycountry:

• Austria - Graz University of Technology• Belgium - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - LEMCKO, Howest• Croatia - Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar - University of Osijek• Denmark - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet• Finland - Lappeenranta University of Technology

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- Tampere University of Technology• France - École Supérieure d´Electricité (SUPELEC) - Electricité de France - Gestionnaire du Réseau de Transport d'Electricité (RTE)• Germany - Technische Universität Dortmund• Greece - National Technical University of Athens• Ireland - University College Dublin• Italy - ENEL - Universitá degli Studi di Bologna - Universitá di Cagliari - Universitá di Genova• Portugal - INESC Porto• Spain - Iberdrola, S.A. - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Universidad de Sevilla - Universidad Politécnica Valencia - Universidad Pontificia Comillas• Sweden - KTH Royal Institute of Technology• Switzerland - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - ETH Zürich• United Kingdom - University of Manchester - University of Strathclyde

Besides being an active member of the network, the Comillas Pontifical Universitycovers the following positions in the EES-UETP:- Member of the Board: Mr. Luis Rouco Rodríguez- Coordinating Secretary: Mr. Luis Olmos Camacho

6.1.2 Teached courses- Energy storage in power systems: technologies, applications and future needs

Prof. Göran Andersson (ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland), Prof. Mario Paolone(EPF-Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland) and Dr. Rachid Cherkaoui (EPF-Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)

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- Optimisation and simulation methods for large power systemsProf. Evangelos Dialynas (National Technical University of Athens, Athens,Greece)

- IEC 61850 and interoperability in smartgridDr. Arshad Saleem (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)and Prof. Lars Nordström (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,Sweden)

- Advanced methods and models for power system dynamic simulationProf. Dr.-Ing. Ch. Rehtanz (University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany)

- Smart cities: planning and operation of future urban energy systemsDr. Pierluigi Mancarella (University of Manchester, Manchester, UnitedKingdom) y Prof. Jovica Milanovic (University of Manchester, Manchester,United Kingdom)

- HVDC grids for offshore wind powerDr. Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt (CITCEA-UPC, IREC, Barcelona, Spain) y Dr. DirkVan Hertem (KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

6.2 International exchanges

It is an IIT policy to encourage and finance, to the extent possible, that itsmembers expand their education and research experience abroad.

Some members of IIT have spent some time at foreign universities and agencies,as visiting scientists or engineers, working on specific projects and expand itsexpertise in research problems. During this academic year, the stays are:

- Luis Rouco Rodríguez, in RLE-LEES, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), Cambridge, MA (U.S.A.). June-December 2011.

- Rafael Cossent Arín, in School of Management & Languages; Chair in EnergyEconomics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Scotland). June-September 2011.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, in School of Engineering and Computer Sciences(Energy Group), Durham University, Durham (United Kingdom). September2011-July 2012.

- Sonja Wogrin, in Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering,Johns Hopkins University, Maryland (U.S.A.). October-November 2011.

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- Javier Matanza Domingo, in Demand Response Research Center, LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California (U.S.A.).November-December 2011.

- Fernando de Cuadra García, in Engineering Systems (grupo de Professor MortWebster), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (U.S.A.).November-December 2011.

- Jesús Jiménez Octavio, in Powertrain Solutions and Vehicle Engineering,Mercedes Benz Technology Group, Stuttgart (Germany). January 2012.Beca Erasmus Personal Docente/Investigador de formación, APEE (OrganismoAutónomo Programas Educativos Europeos).

- Ilan Momber, in Department of Statistical Science, University College London,London (United Kingdom). February-July 2012.

- Juan Carlos del Real Romero, in School of Mechanical & AerospaceEngineering, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast (United Kingdom). March2012.

- Jesús Jiménez Octavio, in Institut für Dynamik und Schwingungen, LeibnizUniversität Hannover, Hannover (Germany). April 2012.Beca Erasmus Personal Docente/Investigador de docencia, APEE (OrganismoAutónomo Programas Educativos Europeos).

- María Domínguez Gago, in Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences.Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, Tokyo (Japan).June-August 2012.

- Jesús Jiménez Octavio, in Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,Universtity of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago (U.S.A.). June-August 2012."Estancias de movilidad en el extranjero José Castillejo para jóvenes doctores2012", Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte.

- Cristina Sánchez Rebollo, in Department of Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago (U.S.A.). June-August2012.

- Javier Matanza Domingo, in Demand Response Research Center, LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California (U.S.A.). June-August 2012.

- Efraim Centeno Hernáez, in Electricity Policy Research Group, University ofCambridge, Cambridge (United Kingdom). July 2012.

- Manuel Alvar Miró, in Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics andStatistics, Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, Venice (Italy). July-October 2012.

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- Álvaro Arranz Domingo, in Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-UC),Universidad de Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal). July-September 2012.

- Camila Formozo Fernandes, in DTU Electrical Engineering y DTU Wind Energy,Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Roskilde (Denmark). July-September2012.

- Jesús María Latorre Canteli, in Department of Industrial Economics andTechnology Management, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet(NTNU), Trondheim (Norway). July-August 2012.

- Álvaro López-Peña Fernández, in Joint Program on the Science and Policy ofGlobal Change, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA(U.S.A.). July-October 2012.

- Pablo Dueñas Martínez, in MIT Energy Initiative, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (U.S.A.). July-October 2012.

- Alexis Cantizano González, in BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering,University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (United Kingdom). July 2012.

- Carlos María Sicre Vara del Rey, in Department of Engineering and AppliedSciences, Universidad de Sophia, Tokyo (Japan). July-November 2012.

6.3 Visitting professors- Michael Schreiber, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System

Technology (IWES), Kassel (Germany). July 2012.

- Luiz Augusto Barroso, Power Systems Research (PSR), Rio (Brazil). June 2012.

- Mort David Webster, from Engineering Systems Division, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (USA). May 2012.

- Piotr Lukaszewicz, from Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering,KTH - Transtrail, Stockholm (Sweden). April 2012.

- Tad Gonsalves, from Information & Communication Sciences, SophiaUniversity, Tokyo (Japan). March-July 2012.

- Mehrdad Ghandhari Alavijh, from Electric Power Systems, Kungliga Tekniskahögskolan - KTH, Stockholm (Sweden). March 2012.

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- Ross Baldick, from Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas(Austin), Austin, TX (USA). March 2012.

- Héctor Manuel Trujillo Brambila, from Ciencias económicas y relacionesinternacionales, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana (Mexico).February-May 2012.

- Armin Wolski, Arup, Washington D.C. (USA). January-March 2012.

- Steven Gabriel, from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,University of Maryland, Maryland (USA). November-December 2011.

- Jonas Egerer, from Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy, TU Berlin, Berlin(Germany). November 2011.

- François Bouffard, from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,McGill University, Montreal (Canada). November 2011.

6.4 Courses offered to external companies andinstitutions

The courses offered to companies and consultancy activities are frequently relatedto research projects. There have been as follows:

- Carlos Batlle López, Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez, Julián Barquín Gil, Michel RivierAbbad, Tomás Gómez San Román, Pedro Linares Llamas, Javier GarcíaGonzález, Javier Reneses Guillén, "Maestría en gestión de energía". ESAN.October 2010-October 2011.

- Carlos Batlle López, Pablo Rodilla Rodríguez, Julián Barquín Gil, Michel RivierAbbad, Javier Reneses Guillén, Pedro Linares Llamas, "Maestría en gestión deenergía". ESAN. September 2011-July 2012.

- Carlos Batlle López, Javier Reneses Guillén, Mariano Ventosa Rodríguez, MichelRivier Abbad, Rafael Cossent Arín, "FSR e-learning course on regulation ofenergy utilities (7th Edition)". European University Institute, Florence School ofRegulation. November 2011-June 2012.

- Antonio Muñoz San Roque, Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda, "Curso sobreanálisis y predicción de la información de mercado con IDAT". Global 3Energía. November-December 2011.

- Ignacio Egido Cortés, "Curso sobre fundamentos de AGC, software AGC-IIT,Fast Start e integración turbina vapor". Global 3. November 2011.

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- Yolanda González Arechavala, Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Rodrigo José AndradeVieira, "Curso básico de fiabilidad". Adif. November 2011-March 2012.

- Javier Reneses Guillén, "Curso de formación sobre la herramienta EDIPO:optimización simultánea de mercado diario y secundario". Global 3 Energía.December 2011-January 2012.

- Javier García González, Julián Barquín Gil, José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, AndrésRamos Galán, "Curso impartido en el MIT sobre «Modelos de ayuda a ladecisión en sistemas eléctricos en un marco de reducción de emisiones deCO2»". MIT Energy Initiative. January-December 2012.

- Carlos Batlle López, "FSR Summer school on regulation of energy utilities".Florence School of Regulation. April 2012-July 2020.

- Luis Rouco Rodríguez, "Curso avanzado de sistemas eléctricos de potencia".Iberdrola Ingenieria y Construccion. May-July 2012.

- Enrique Lobato Miguélez, Ignacio Egido Cortés, Francisco Miguel EchavarrenCerezo, "Curso sobre el programa de simulación PSS/E". HCEnergia.June-October 2012.

- Yolanda González Arechavala, Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Rodrigo José AndradeVieira, "Curso básico de fiabilidad". Ineco. July 2012.

6.5 Seminars

Members of the IIT offered dissemination seminars throughout the year, whichcan present results of research carried out or simply refer to current issues. Theseminars that have taken place in this academic year are:

- Pedro Linares Llamas, "Las cuatro P's de la eficiencia energética". ESADE.

- Javier Matanza Domingo, "Power Line Communication as a transmissionmedium for OpenADR signals". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(University of California).

- Rafael Palacios Hielscher, "Saca partido a tu nuevo iPad con iCloud y iOS5".Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Javier Roldán Pérez, "A Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) to protect sensitiveloads against voltage sags and harmonics". 8th Workshop on Industrial Systemsand Energy Technologies - JOSITE'2012. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

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- Elena Saiz Marín, "Economic assessment of the provision of voltage control bywind generation". 8th Workshop on Industrial Systems and Energy Technologies- JOSITE'2012. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Sara Lumbreras Sancho, "Improvements to Benders’ decomposition. A review ofacceleration and extension techniques". 8th Workshop on Industrial Systemsand Energy Technologies - JOSITE'2012. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Antonio Bello Morales, "Predicción de precios extremadamente bajos enmercados eléctricos: aplicación al caso español". 8th Workshop on IndustrialSystems and Energy Technologies - JOSITE'2012. Universidad PontificiaComillas.

- Inmaculada Saboya Bautista, "Rapid-Start Unit providing Secondary FrequencyControl". 8th Workshop on Industrial Systems and Energy Technologies -JOSITE'2012. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Andrea Rodríguez Calvo, "Smart transformer substations for reliabilityimprovement in distribution networks". 8th Workshop on Industrial Systems andEnergy Technologies - JOSITE'2012. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Mercedes Vallés Rodríguez, "The cost of CO2 emissions abatement for thepower sector in Phase III of the EU ETS". 8th Workshop on Industrial Systemsand Energy Technologies - JOSITE'2012. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Steven Gabriel, "A new method for MPECs and EPECs with a natural gasapplication". Aula de Investigación. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- María Teresa Peña Alcaraz, "Applying Approximate Dynamic Programmingframework with Matlab". Aula de investigación. Universidad PontificiaComillas.

- Mort David Webster, "Approximate Dynamic Programming methods forlong-term energy planning models". Aula de investigación. UniversidadPontificia Comillas.

- François Bouffard, "Computational identification of umbrella contingencies inelectricity networks". Aula de investigación. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Ross Baldick, "Minimum uplift assignment of transmission expansion costs tobeneficiaries". Aula de investigación. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Jonas Egerer, "Multi-objective transmission planning". Aula de investigación.Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

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- Mehrdad Ghandhari Alavijh, "New challenges in power system stability". Aulade investigación. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Luiz Augusto Barroso, "Smart grids and demand response in Brazil:state-of-the-art and analysis of recent proposals from the regulator". Aula deinvestigación. Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, "La fiscalidad energético-ambiental y el CO2". ForoInternacional de Ingeniería, Energías Renovables, Eficiencia Energética y MedioAmbiente. Fingerplus, Instituto de la Ingeniería de España.

- Alexis Cantizano González, "Análisis de la situación formativa universitaria en elámbito de PCI". Jornada Técnica: Protección contra Incendios en la Edificacióne Industria. Planes de Autoprotección. Asociación de Profesionales de Ingenieríade Protección Contra Incendios y Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros TécnicosIndustriales de Ourense.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, "Políticas de apoyo a las renovables: nuevos retos. Díaeólico". Negocio Eólico Internacional. Asociación de Promotores de EnergíaEólica de Castilla y León.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, "La propuesta de directiva de eficiencia energética: unavaloración crítica". Segundo Workshop "Principales Implicaciones de lapropuesta de Directiva de Eficiencia Energética ante los retos del ModeloEnergético". Plataforma Española de Eficiencia Energética.

6.6 Congress, seminars and journals organization- Mario Castro Ponce, "Nanoscale pattern formation at surfaces". Universidad

Carlos III de Madrid, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, UniversidadPontificia Comillas. El Escorial, Madrid (Spain). September 2011.

- Julián Barquín Gil, Pablo Dueñas Martínez, Luis Olmos Camacho, SonjaWogrin, "11th Young Energy Economists and Engineers Seminar - YEEES".Universidad Pontificia Comillas. El Escorial, Madrid (Spain). November 2011.

- Alexis Cantizano González, "Clase magistral de simulación computacional,Guillermo Rein". Asociación de Profesionales de Ingeniería de Protección deIncendios (APICI) y la Universidad Pontificia Comillas. El Escorial, Madrid(Spain). May 2012.

- María Ana Sáenz Nuño, "III Jornada Metrología y Salud". Universidad PontificiaComillas e IASA. El Escorial, Madrid (Spain). June 2012.

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- Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda, "8th Workshop on Industrial Systems andEnergy Technologies- JOSITE'2012". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. ElEscorial, Madrid (Spain). July 2012.

6.7 Other activities- Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Samuel Galcerán Arellanos, External thesis

supervision. "Intelligent monitoring and diagnosis of power transformers in thecontext of an asset management model" por Juan L. Velásquez Contreras.Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona (Spain). September 2011.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, External thesis supervision. "Climate change technologytransfer to developing countries: evidence analysis and policyrecommendations" por Ana Pueyo Velasco. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.Madrid (Spain). March 2012.

- Luis Rouco Rodríguez, Miembro del Comité ejecutivo del Comité Nacional deEspaña in International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE). (France).January 1997- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Miembro in Institute of Electrical and ElectronicEngineers (IEEE). (U.S.A.). March 1998- Today.

- Luis Rouco Rodríguez, Miembro del Consejo editorial de la revista "ElectricPower Systems Research" in Elsevier Science. (Switzerland). January 2000-Today.

- Juan Carlos del Real Romero, Comité Técnico de Normalización 143"Adhesivos" in AENOR. (Spain). January 2002- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Director de la Cátedra BP (British Petroleum) deDesarrollo Sostenible in Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería - ICAI(Universidad Pontificia Comillas). (Spain). December 2002- Today.

- Tomás Gómez San Román, Miembro del Comité de Vigilancia del MercadoMayorista de Electricidad de Panamá in Autoridad Nacional de los ServiciosPúblicos de Panamá. (Panama). July 2003- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Director of Energy Training in Florence School ofRegulation (FSR). (Italy). October 2003- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Miembro de número in Real Academia Española deIngeniería. (Spain). October 2003- Today.

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- Carlos Maté Jiménez, Vocal del Grupo de trabajo sobre Confiabilidad (GT56)acerca de la Normativa sobre Fiabilidad Mantenimiento y Ensayos de Vida inAENOR - IEC. (Spain). January 2004- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Miembro del Consejo in European Energy Institute.(Belgium). March 2004- Today.

- Andrés Ramos Galán, Coordinador in Red Temática de Optimización bajoIncertidumbre (ReTOBI). (Spain). June 2005- Today.

- Julián Barquín Gil, Miembro del Power System Analysis, Computing andEconomics Committee de la IEEE Power and Energy Society in Institute ofElectrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). (U.S.A.). January 2006- Today.

- Mariano Ventosa Rodríguez, Miembro del Consejo de Redacción in RevistaAnales de Mecánica y Electricidad. (Spain). September 2006- Today.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Miembro del Comité editorial de la revista IET PowerElectronics in Institute for Engineering and Technology (IET). (U.K.). October2007- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Miembro del Irish Regulatory Committee in SingleElectricity Market. (Ireland). November 2007- Today.

- José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar, Vocal del Comité Técnico de Normalización207 en "Transporte y distribución de energía eléctrica", Subcomité 57-205A en"Control en sistemas de potencia y comunicaciones asociadas" in AENOR.(Spain). December 2007- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Visiting professor at the Center for Energy andEnvironmental Policy Research (CEEPR) in Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). (U.S.A.). September 2008- Today.

- Tomás Gómez San Román, Miembro del Executive Board in Electrical EnergySystems – University Enterprise Training Partnership (EES-UETP). (Portugal).October 2008- Today.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Adjunto a la coordinación de área de IngenieríaEléctrica, Electrónica y Automática in Agencia Nacional de Evaluación yProspectiva (ANEP). (Spain). December 2008-November 2011.

- Tomás Gómez San Román, Miembro in Institute of Electrical and ElectronicEngineers (IEEE). (U.S.A.). January 2009- Today.

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- Carlos Maté Jiménez, Vocal del Grupo de trabajo sobre Métodos Estadísticos(CT66) acerca de la Normativa sobre Métodos Estadísticos aplicados a Calidadin AENOR - IEC. (Spain). January 2009- Today.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Miembro de la Junta Directiva del Capítulo Español dela IEEE Power Electronics-Industrial Electronics in Institute of Electrical andElectronic Engineers (IEEE). (Spain). June 2009- Today.

- Luis Rouco Rodríguez, Presidente del Capítulo Español de la Power EngineeringSociety in Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). (Spain). July2009- Today.

- Juan Carlos del Real Romero, Presidente in Grupo Científico Técnico Español deAdhesión y Adhesivos. (Spain). December 2009- Today.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, Vicepresidente in Economics for Energy. (Spain). July2010- Today.

- Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda, Miembro de la Red española de SeriesTemporales in Universidad de Granada y Universidad de Pablo de Olavide.(Spain). September 2010-September 2011.

- Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda, Miembro de la Red Española de Minería deDatos y Aprendizaje (TIC2002-11124-E) in Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología.(Spain). September 2010-September 2011.

- Mariano Ventosa Rodríguez, Miembro del Comité de la Energía y la Ingenieríade Arbitraje y Mediación in Asociación Europea de Arbitraje (AEADE). (Spain).December 2010- Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Miembro del Grupo Asesor de Expertos para elDirector General de Energía de la Comisión Europea para el desarrollo de laHoja de Ruta de la Energía 2050 in Comisión Europea. (Belgium). May 2011-Today.

- Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda, Miembro del Comité del programa del IWorkshop on Time Series in Red española de Series Temporales. (Spain).May-November 2011.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Presidente del Capítulo Español de la IEEE PowerElectronics-Industrial Electronics in Institute of Electrical and ElectronicEngineers (IEEE). (Spain). July 2011- Today.

- María Ana Sáenz Nuño, Colaborador honorífico del Dpto. de Óptica de laFacultad de Físicas in Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (Spain). October2011-September 2012.

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- José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar, Experto del Comité Técnico IEC/TC 57/WG10 «Power system IED communication and associated data models» in AENOR.(Spain). December 2011- Today.

- José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar, Vocal del Comité Técnico de Normalización207 SC 13 “Aparatos de medida de la energía eléctrica y del control de cargas"in AENOR. (Spain). December 2011- Today.

- José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar, Experto del Comité Técnico IEC/TC 57/WG15 «Data and communication security» in AENOR. (Spain). December 2011-Today.

- José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar, Experto del Comité Técnico IEC/TC 57/WG21 «System interfaces and communication protocol profiles relevant for systemsconnected to the Smart Grid» in AENOR. (Spain). December 2011- Today.

- Juan Carlos del Real Romero, Grant awards "Beca Erasmus "PersonalDocente/Investigador" de formación". Universidade do Porto. Facultade deEngenharia. (Portugal). September 2011.

- Alexis Cantizano González, Grant awards "Beca Fundación Mapfre, Estudio yevaluación de la eficiencia de las protecciones contra incendios enconstrucciones tipo atrio". Universidad Pontificia Comillas. (Spain).January-December 2012.

- Juan Carlos del Real Romero, Grant awards "Beca Erasmus "PersonalDocente/Investigador" de formación". Queen´s University. (United Kingdom).March 2012.

- Andrés Ramos Galán, External course in "ESD.S30 Electric Power SystemsModeling for Low Carbon Economy". Massachusetts Institute of Technology.(U.S.A.). January 2012.

- Jesús Jiménez Octavio, External course in "Computational mechanics on highspeed trains: catenary-pantograph dynamic interaction". Institut für Dynamikund Schwingungen. (Germany). March 2012.

- Jesús Jiménez Octavio, External course in "Optimization in engineering".Institute of Dynamics and Vibration Research (Leibniz Universität Hannover).(Germany). April 2012.

- Eugenio Francisco Sánchez Úbeda, External course in "Estadística aplicada amercados energéticos". Endesa. (Spain). June 2012.

- Efraim Centeno Hernáez, Editor de The Journal of Energy Markets. Risk Journals.(U.K.). March 2008- Today.

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- Julián Barquín Gil, Editor de IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (TPWRS).Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). (U.S.A.). March 2010-Today.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Editor de Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Switzerland). October2010-December 2014.

- José Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, Editor de Economics of Energy and EnvironmentalPolicy. International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). (Sweden). May2011- Today.

- Andrés Ramos Galán, Editor de Journal of Computational Management Science.Springer. (Germany). October 2011- Today.

- Andrés Ramos Galán, Research proposal evaluator in "Austrian Science FundFWF". Austrian Science Fund (FWF). (Spain). June 2012.

- Tomás Gómez San Román, Project evaluator. The Research Council of Norway.(Norway). September 2004- Today.

- José Antonio Rodríguez Mondéjar, Dissertation "The software of the energy box:a challenge to integrate a complex optimization algorithm". IEEC 2011. (Spain).October 2011.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, Invited lecture "Interaction of climate and renewableenergy policies". Economics for Energy. (U.S.A.). November 2011.

- Pedro Linares Llamas, Invited lecture "Engineering-based MAC curves forindustrial sectors: limitations and challenges". European University Institute.(Italy). July 2012.

- Sadot Alexandres Fernández, Member of scientific committee of congress in"Electronics Letters, Journal of Communications". IEE. (United Kingdom).January 1999- Today.

- Juan Carlos del Real Romero, Member of scientific committee of congress in"XII Congreso Nacional de Adhesión y Adhesivos". Departamento de Plásticos yComposites, en colaboración con el GEAA. (Spain). September 2011.

- Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Member of scientific committee of congress in"International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Theory andApplications - ECTA 2011". Institute for Systems and Technologies ofInformation, Control and Communication. (France). October 2011.

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- Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Member of scientific committee of congress in"International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for EngineeringSystems - ISCIES 2011". Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra. (Portugal). November2011.

- Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Member of scientific committee of congress in "TenthIEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications -ICMLA'11". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (U.S.A.). December2011.

- Juan Carlos del Real Romero, Member of scientific committee of congress in"6th International Conference on Advanced Computational Engineering andExperimenting - ACE-X 2012". Ironix Conferences. (France). July 2012.

- Sadot Alexandres Fernández, Permanent member of scientific committee ofcongress in "Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems - DCIS".January 1992- Today.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Permanent member of scientific committee of congressin "Seminario Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentación -SAAEI". September 1998- Today.

- Sadot Alexandres Fernández, Permanent member of scientific committee ofcongress in "Seminario Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial eInstrumentación - SAAEI". January 1999- Today.

- Sadot Alexandres Fernández, Permanent member of scientific committee ofcongress in "Telecomunicaciones, electrónica y control - TELEC". Universidadde Alcalá de Henares. (Spain). January 2004- Today.

- Alexis Cantizano González, Curso de gestión de humos: diferencias entre lanormativa europea y la normativa americana en los sistemas de control dehumos. Asociación de Profesionales de Ingeniería de Protección de Incendios(APICI) y la Universidad Pontificia Comillas. (Spain). February 2012.

- Miguel Ochoa Giménez, 1º Premio Asociación/Colegio de Ingenieros delI.C.A.I. Innovación Industrial al mejor Proyecto fin de Carrera 2010-11.Universidad Pontificia Comillas. (Spain). March 2012.

- Andrea Veiga Santiago, 2º Premio Endesa al mejor Proyecto fin de Carrera2010-11. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. (Spain). March 2012.

- Fernando Báñez Chicharro, Best Student Paper Prize en «9th InternationalConference on Computational Management Science». Imperial College London.(United Kingdom). April 2012.

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- Germán Andrés Morales España, Second Best Paper Prize en «9th InternationalConference on the European Energy Market - EEM 12». European UniversityInstitute. (Italy). May 2012.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Journal reviewer in "IET Power Electronics". Institute forEngineering and Technology (IET). (U.K.). January 1989- Today.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Journal reviewer in "IET Electric Power Applications".Institute for Engineering and Technology (IET). (U.K.). January 1989- Today.

- Aurelio García Cerrada, Journal reviewer in "IET Electronics Letters". Institutefor Engineering and Technology (IET). (U.K.). January 1989- Today.

- Romano Giannetti, Journal reviewer in "IEEE Transaction on Instrumentationand Measurement". Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).(U.S.A.). April 2006- Today.

- Carlos Maté Jiménez, Journal reviewer in "Advances in Data Analysis andClassification". Springer. (Germany). April 2010- Today.

- Carlos Maté Jiménez, Journal reviewer in "International Journal of SystemsScience". Taylor & Francis. (England). October 2010- Today.

- Carlos Maté Jiménez, Journal reviewer in "Energy Policy". Elsevier Science.(England). December 2010- Today.

- Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Journal reviewer in "International Journal of ElectricalPower & Energy Systems - IJEPES". Elsevier. (England). October 2011-July 2012.

- Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Journal reviewer in "International Journal ofRenewable Energy Research - IJRER". University of Malaya. (Malaysia). October2011-July 2012.

- Miguel Ángel Sanz Bobi, Journal reviewer in "Journal of Mechanical Scienceand Technology". Springer. (Korea). October 2011-July 2012.

- Yolanda Ballesteros Iglesias, Workshop. "Nanotecnología y Adhesivos". GrupoCientífico Técnico Español de Adhesión y Adhesivos. (Spain). September 2011.

- Andrés Ramos Galán, Workshop. "LANCS Workshop on Stochastic Modelling inEnergy Systems". Lancaster University Management School. (United Kingdom).January-February 2012.

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- Ana María Santos Montes, Dissertation committee to Comillas in "Durabilidadde uniones adhesivas de aluminio con adhesivos acrílicos tenaces empleandotratamientos superficiales medioambientales responsables" por Juan Carlos delReal Romero. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. (Spain). October 2011.

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7. Data about IITThe relevant numbers of the academic year 2011 - 2012 are shown below, aswell as the historical evolution of the turnover of the Institute and of its staff,separated into academic staff and research assistants:

5,95 M€ Turnover

61 Professors and researchers

62 Research assistants

80 Research projects

24 Consultancy projects

2 Books

4 Chapters in books

44 Papers published in JCR journals

13 Papers published in other journals

62 Papers presented at conferences

25 Technical reports

1 Submitted theses

23 Ongoing theses

12 Courses offered to external entities

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