Maria Serra Prat
Profesora Agregada
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Automatic Control
maserra (at) iri.upc.edu
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Prof. Maria Serra (graduate in Physics, 1995, PhD in Chemical Enginnering, 2000) is Associate Professor of the Automatic Control Department at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya since 2008. She is currently the Head of the Automatic Control Group in the Insitut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI). Her research interests are modeling and control of complex systems, focusing on energy generation and fuel-cell systems.
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DOVELAR: Control and energy management of hybrid fuel cell-based electric vehicles
National Project
Start Date: 01/01/2019
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INN-BALANCE: Innovative cost improvements for balance of plant components of automotive PEMFC systems
European Project
Start Date: 01/01/2017
Publications
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O.R. Llerena, C. Ocampo-Martínez, M. Serra and J.L. Silveira. Dynamic analysis of an ethanol steam reformer for hydrogen production, 3rd IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, 2017, Cartagena, pp. 1-5.
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P. Martínez, M. Serra and R. Costa Castelló. Modeling and control of HTPEMFC based combined heat and power for confort control, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 1-6.
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E. Delgado, M. Serra and A.P. Husar. Modelización y gestión térmica de una pila de combustible SOFC, 3rd Iberoamerican Congress on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, 2017, Huesca, Spain, pp. 107-110.
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F. Serri, M. Serra and R. Costa Castelló. Experimental thermal model of a high temperature fuel cell stack, 6th Iberian Symposium on Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries, 2017, Porto, Portugal.
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M.L. Sarmiento-Carnevali, M. Serra and C. Batlle. Distributed parameter model-based control of water activity and concentration of reactants in a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42(42): 26389-26407, 2017.
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J.A. Luna, E. Usai, A.P. Husar and M. Serra. Enhancing the efficiency and lifetime of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell using nonlinear model predictive control with nonlinear observation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 64(8): 6649-6659, 2017.
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M. Serra, C. Ocampo-Martínez, M. Li and J. Llorca. Model predictive control for ethanol steam reformers with membrane separation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42(4): 1949-1961, 2017.
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E. Pérez, M. Serra, C. Ocampo-Martínez and J. Llorca. Nonlinear model predictive control for hydrogen production in an ethanol steam reformer with membrane separation, 2016 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 1155-1160.
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J.A. Luna, S. Jemei, N. Yousfi, A.P. Husar, M. Serra and D. Hissel. Nonlinear predictive control for durability enhancement and efficiency improvement in a fuel cell power system. Journal of Power Sources, 328: 250-261, 2016.
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J.A. Luna, E. Usai, A.P. Husar and M. Serra. Observation of the electrochemically active surface area in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2016, Florence, pp. 5483-5488.
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PhD Theses as supervisor
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Supervisory Control of a PEM Fuel Cell System
Student:
Carlos García Rodríguez
Started:
01/09/2017
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Master theses as supervisor
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Modeling and control of PEM fuel cell power plant for automotive applications
Student:
Juan Carlos Gómez Pomar
Started:
02/07/2018
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Methane production through a Solid Oxide Electrolyser with primary renewable source and carbon dioxide capture
Student:
Edoardo Chiadò
Started:
01/01/2019
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A Viability Study for SOFC Co-Generation Energy Systems for Renovated Buildings
Student:
Albert Mur Pera
Started:
01/01/2019
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