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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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Fernando Báñez Chicharro, assistant researcher at the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT), has been awarded the Best Student Paper Prize at the 9th International Conference on Computational Management Science, held at the Imperial College London. Jesús M. Latorre and Andrés Ramos, researchers at the IIT, are co-authors of the article “Smart charging profiles for electric vehicles”. The award-winning paper compares and analyzes different charging strategies for electric vehicles for the Spanish power system of the year 2020.
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IIT is involved in the new agreement between Zeerca and Comillas, where new models of fusion between electronic and traditional commerce will be developed. More…
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For the fifth consecutive year, Máster en Sector Eléctrico (Erasmus Mundus). Coordinated by Javier García González is number one in the ranking for "Environment: Energy" category, according to the study about the top 250 masters in Spain, published by El Mundo newspaper. El Mundo
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 1.038 (2010)
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 0.429 (2010)
In press.
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Lumbreras, S., Ramos, A.
Offshore wind farm electrical design: a review,
Wind Energy.
JCR impact factor 1.716 (2010)
In press.
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Peña, M., Fernández-Cardador, A., Cucala, A.P., Ramos, A., Pecharromán, R.R.
Optimal underground timetable design based on power flow for maximizing the use of regenerative-braking energy,
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit.
JCR impact factor 0.389 (2010)
Accepted for publication.
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Pilo, E., Rouco, L., Fernández-Cardador, A., Abrahamsson, L.
A mono-voltage equivalent model of bi-voltage autotransformer-based electrical systems in railways,
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 27 (2), 699-708, (Dec/2012)
JCR impact factor 1.415 (2010)
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Cucala, A.P., Fernández-Cardador, A., Sicre, C., Domínguez, M.
Fuzzy optimal schedule of high speed train operation to minimize energy consumption with uncertain delays and driver’s behavioral response,
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
JCR impact factor 1.352 (2010)
Accepted for publication.
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Santodomingo, R., Rodríguez-Mondéjar, J.A., Sanz-Bobi, M.A.
Using semantic web resources to translate existing files between CIM and IEC 61850,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
JCR impact factor 2.355 (2010)
Accepted for publication.
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Díaz, C.A., Campos, F.A., Villar, J., Rodríguez García, M.A.
Endogenous computation of conjectured supply functions with network constraints,
Electric Power Systems Research.
JCR impact factor 1.562 (2010)
Accepted for publication.
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Cledera, M.M., Ballesteros, Y., Pantoja, M., Velasco, F.
Environmental evaluation of silanes as adhesion promoters for organic coatings,
The Journal of Adhesion.
JCR impact factor 1.085 (2010)
In press.
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González, A., Echavarren, F.M., Rouco, L., Gómez, T.
Reconfiguration of large-scale distribution networks for planning studies,
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.
JCR impact factor 2.212 (2010)
Accepted for publication.
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