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Institute for Research in Technology
IIT is a research center of ICAI School of Engineering, which belongs to the University Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain.
Its main objective is to promote research and post-graduate studies in different technological fields, by means of developing research
projects of interest for the Industry and Administration.
Research Areas:
Area of Engineering Design
Research topics:
- Mechanical systems
- Structural mechanics
- Machinery components
- Fast prototyping
- Metrology
- Electrical systems
- Electromagnetic fields and coupled problems
- Energy systems
- Heat transfer
- Fluid dynamics
- Thermoelectricity (Peltier and Seebeck effects)
- Hydraulic and thermal machines
- Energy efficiency and savings
Area of Railway Systems
Research topics:
- Efficiency in railways operation.
- Energy efficient timetabling and train driving (Ecodriving).
- Optimal design of signalling and railways capacity.
- Railways power systems.
- Safety analysis, specification and demonstration of RAMS, quality control and assurance.
- Communication and control in railway power systems.
Area of Intelligent Systems
Research topics:
- Forecasting and data mining
- Modeling, simulation and optimization
- Reliability, maintenance and diagnosis
- Artificial vision
- Mobile robotics
- Helping accessibility using ICT
- RAMS Analysis
Group of Electronics and Automation
Research topics:
- Automation, Communications and Industrial Informatics
- Power Electronics and Control Systems
- Electronic Instrumentation
- Electromagnetic Compatibility
Area of Modelling, Analysis and Control
Research topics:
Desarrollo de herramientas informáticas para estudios electrotécnicos relacionados con aspectos tales como:
- Power flow
- Stability
- Transients
- Load-frequency control
- Frequency/voltage control system or governor system
- Automatic voltage control
- Electric power systems design
- Relaying Systems / protection schemes
- Harmonics
- Distributed/dispersed generation impacts
Area of Smart and Green Networks
Research topics:
Smart Grids:
- Planning and operation of active networks with distributed
generation and active demand response.
- Quality of service and network security by automated functions
for operation and control.
- Tariff design and price signals for an effective integration fo
distributed generation and active demand response.
Green_energy integration:
- Long-term energy prospective and its impact on the electricity Publications
the long-term.
- Large scale integraton of renovable energy keeping the security
of supply.
- Markets for procurement of ancillary services (voltage control
and operational reserves) including large scale penetration of
revnewable energy.
Area of Regulation and Economics of Energy
Research topics:
- Regulatory design of energy markets
- Economic instruments for environmental and climate change policy
- Transmission and distribution networks regulation.
Area of Decision Support Systems in the Energy Sector
Research topics:
- Short term operation and market bids.
- Hourly operation tools for generating units, hydrothermal scheduling and economic dispatch.
- Bid strategies in electricity markets.
- Medium term planning studies.
- Methods and tools for hydrothermal scheduling, market price forecasting.
- Network analysis, nodal price computation.
- Generation and bulk system reliability.
- Long term strategic analysis.
- Generation expansion modeling.
- Impact of new generation.
- Future markets.
- Distributed and parallel computing applied to mathematical programming problems.
- Distributed computing on grid and cloud infrastructures.
- Parallel computing on multi-core architectures like GPUs.
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Recent Publications
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Nuñez, A., Pérez-Arriaga, I.J.
Assessing the Results of Electricity Liberalisation For Consumers in Spain,
Energy Sources Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy.
JCR impact factor 0.709 (2011)
Accepted for publication.
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Alvar, M., Sánchez, A., Arranz, A.
Fast background subtraction using static and dynamic gates,
Artificial Intelligence Review.
JCR impact factor 1.213 (2011)
In press.
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Delgadillo, A.R., Reneses, J.
Conjectural-variation-based equilibrium model of a single-price electricity market with a counter-trading mechanism,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
JCR impact factor 2.678 (2011)
Accepted for publication.
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Wogrin, S., Hobbs, B.F., Ralph, D., Centeno, E., Barquín, J.
Open versus closed loop capacity equilibria in electricity markets under perfect and oligopolistic competition,
Mathematical Programming.
JCR impact factor 1.707 (2011)
Accepted for publication.
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Sanz, P., Paz, E., Abenojar, J., del Real-Romero, J.C., Forriol, F., Vaquero, J.
Effects of vancomycin, cefazolin and test conditions on the wear behavior of bone cement,
The Journal of Arthroplasty.
JCR impact factor 2.384 (2011)
Accepted for publication.
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Wogrin, S., Centeno, E., Barquín, J.
Generation capacity expansion analysis: Open loop approximation of closed loop equilibria,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
JCR impact factor 2.678 (2011)
Accepted for publication.
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Latorre, J.M., Cerisola, S., Ramos, A., Perea, A., Bellido, R.
Coordinated hydro power plant simulation for multi-reservoir systems,
ASCE´s Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
JCR impact factor 1.171 (2011)
Accepted for publication.
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Sigrist, L., Egido, I., Rouco, L.
Principles of a centralized UFLS scheme for small isolated power systems,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 28 (2), 1779-1786, (May/2013)
JCR impact factor 2.678 (2011)
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Yasappan, J., Jiménez-Casas, A., Castro, M.
Asymptotic behavior of a viscoelastic fluid in a closed loop thermosyphon: physical derivation, asymptotic analysis, and numerical experiments,
Abstract and Applied Analysis. 2013, (May/2013)
JCR impact factor 1.318 (2011)
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Lumbreras, S., Ramos, A., Cerisola, S.
A progressive contingency incorporation approach for stochastic optimization problems,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 28 (2), 1452-1460, (May/2013)
JCR impact factor 2.678 (2011)
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