Francisco Vedreno Santos
Francisco Vedreno Santos

Dr Francisco Vedreno Santos

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  F.VedrenoSantos@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Francisco Vedreño-Santos received the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008, the MSc in Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development in 2012 and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 2013 in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia (Spain).

From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a Junior Researcher in several European institutions, such as the Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Amiens (France), École Centrale de Nantes, Nantes (France) and the Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna (Austria). In 2014, he joined the University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK), as a Research Associate in Electrical Machines in collaboration with the Sheffield Siemens Wind Power Research Centre (S2WP). In 2016, he joined the Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh (UK), where he is currently a Lecturer in Electronic & Electrical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Built Environment.

His research interests include diagnostics and condition monitoring of electric machines, design and control of power electronics for wind power applications and signal processing.

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  • Best Paper Award in ICEM 2012

 

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Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Load Variations

Journal Article
Bonet-Jara, J., Fernandez-Cavero, V., Vedreno-Santos, F., Morinigo-Sotelo, D., & Pons-Llinares, J. (in press)
Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Load Variations. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2024.3371393
Induction motors work under steady-state in many applications. Nevertheless, in some cases they experience periodic load fluctuations, which generate constant frequency harmon...

Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations

Conference Proceeding
Bonet-Jara, J., Fernandez-Cavero, V., Vedreno Santos, F., & Pons-Llinares, J. (2022)
Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations. In 2022 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEM51905.2022.9910768
Induction motors work under steady state in many applications. Nevertheless, in some cases (e.g., wood cutting machine or pulp mixer in paper industries), the load continuousl...

Performance of Superconducting Generators with Different Topologies under Fault Conditions

Journal Article
Guan, Y., Vedreno Santos, F., Azar, Z., Thomas, A., Li, G., Odavic, M., & Zhu, Z. (2019)
Performance of Superconducting Generators with Different Topologies under Fault Conditions. Journal of Engineering, 2019(17), 4090-4095. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2018.8183
This paper compares the short-circuit performance of superconducting (SC) generators with three different topologies, i.e., iron-cored stator and rotor, iron-cored stator and ...

Design considerations for high-power converters interfacing 10 MW superconducting wind power generators

Journal Article
Vedreño Santos, F., Odavic, M., Guan, Y., Azar, Z., Thomas, A., Li, G., & Zhu, Z. (2017)
Design considerations for high-power converters interfacing 10 MW superconducting wind power generators. IET Power Electronics, 10(12), 1461-1467. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2016.0512
The design of power electronic converters for the integration of wind generated power into the grid is more and more important due to a new class of Superconducting Generators...

Comparison of Electromagnetic Performance of 10-MW Superconducting Generators With Different Topologies for Offshore Direct-Drive Wind Turbines

Journal Article
Guan, Y., Zhu, Z. Q., Azar, Z., Thomas, A. S., Vedreño-Santos, F., Li, G., & Odavic, M. (2017)
Comparison of Electromagnetic Performance of 10-MW Superconducting Generators With Different Topologies for Offshore Direct-Drive Wind Turbines. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 27(7), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2017.2732289
This paper compares the electromagnetic performance of 10MW superconducting (SC) generators with three different topologies, i.e., iron-cored stator and rotor (ISIRT), iron-co...

Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines.

Journal Article
Guan, Y., Zhu, Z. Q., Li, G., Azar, Z., Thomas, A. S., Vedreño-Santos, F., & Odavic, M. (2017)
Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 27(6), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2017.2716818
This paper investigates the influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on the performance of superconducting (SC) generators. The SC generator has an iron-cored rotor ...

Comparison of Peak Armature and Field Winding Currents for Different Topologies of 10-MW Superconducting Generators Under Short-Circuit Conditions

Journal Article
Guan, Y., Vedreno-Santos, F., Li, G. J., Azar, Z., Thomas, A. S., Li, G., …Zhu, Z. Q. (2016)
Comparison of Peak Armature and Field Winding Currents for Different Topologies of 10-MW Superconducting Generators Under Short-Circuit Conditions. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 26(8), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2016.2615077
This paper studies the peak armature and peak field winding currents for three different topologies of 10 MW partial High Temperature Superconducting Generators (HTSGs) under ...

Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms

Conference Proceeding
Pons-Llinares, J., Riera-Guasp, M., Antonino-Daviu, J. A., & Vedreno-Santos, F. (2014)
Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms. https://doi.org/10.1109/icelmach.2014.6960426
Induction generators used in windmills usually work in non-stationary conditions, due to the varying speed of the wind. Therefore, in order to perform its diagnosis through th...

Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency

Journal Article
Vedreno-Santos, F., Riera-Guasp, M., Henao, H., Pineda-Sanchez, M., & Puche-Panadero, R. (2014)
Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(9), 4947-4959. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2013.2288192
This paper proposes a methodology to improve the reliability of diagnosis of different types of faults in wound-rotor induction generators which work under variable load condi...

Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands

Journal Article
Climente-Alarcon, V., Antonino-Daviu, J. A., Vedreno-Santos, F., & Puche-Panadero, R. (2013)
Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 49(6), 2576-2582. https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2013.2265872
In recent years, the study of transients of induction motors for diagnosis purposes has gained strength in order to overcome some inherent problems of the classical diagnosis ...

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