Publications by Jules Christian Georges Macé

Exploring the Features of Power Electronic Converters for Hybrid AC-DC Microgrids

Drazen Dujic, Jules Christian Georges Macé

2025

An Asymmetric Perturbation Signal for Enhanced Perturbation Injection Capabilities of a Grid-Connected Converter

Drazen Dujic, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Andrea Cervone

Impedance estimation is an important tool for grid- converter interaction evaluation. Using existing grid-connected converters for perturbation injection enables grid impedance estimation during operation without additional hardware (namely dedicated pertu ...

2024

Experimental validation of a grid-aware optimal control of hybrid AC/DC microgrids

Mario Paolone, Willem Lambrichts, Jules Christian Georges Macé

This paper presents the experimental validation of a grid-aware real-time control method for hybrid AC/DC microgrids. The optimal control is leveraged by the voltage sensitivity coefficients (SC) that are computed analytically using the close-form expressi ...

Elsevier2024

Enhancing the Perturbation Injection Capabilities of Grid-Connected Converters with Asymmetric Signals

Drazen Dujic, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Andrea Cervone

Impedance identification is an important tool for the evaluation of grid-converter interactions, and it is based on the injection of a controlled small signal perturbation and in the analysis of the corresponding system response. Using already installed gr ...

2024

On the Features and Performances of Converters in Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids

Jules Christian Georges Macé

From hydropower to wind power, renewable energy is converted to electricity, putting the electric grid at the crossroads of the green energy generation and consumption. The grid must also adapt and scale up to an increased capacity and to the stochastic na ...

EPFL2024

Dynamics analysis for DC transformers integration in hybrid AC‐DC power distribution networks

Drazen Dujic, Max Dupont, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Renan Pillon Barcelos, Andrea Cervone

In AC/DC power distributions networks, power converters are interfacing buses to ensure DC voltage regulation and power distribution. Active front ends are used between AC and DC buses and two typical control schemes that can be implemented are voltage reg ...

2023

Learning With Your PETS

Drazen Dujic, Max Dupont, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Renan Pillon Barcelos, Andrea Cervone

Recently, we published an article [1] presenting how the Power Electronics course at the bachelor level is organized by the Power Electronics Laboratory and taught at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland. For those avid readers who m ...

2023

DC Transformer Impact on Voltage Dynamics in Hybrid AC-DC Power Distribution Networks

Drazen Dujic, Max Dupont, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Renan Pillon Barcelos, Andrea Cervone

AC/DC power distribution networks use various types of power converters to interconnect their buses, active front ends between AC and DC buses, and DC transformers between DC buses. Different active front end control methods, like voltage or power regulati ...

VDE Verlag2023

Self-Synchronized Grid Impedance Estimation Unit using Interpolated DFT Technique

Drazen Dujic, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Andrea Cervone

Estimating the impedance of a grid-connected device or of a grid at the point of common coupling is important for evaluating the interaction between them. Impedance measurement involves a perturbation injection device, that perturbs the system, and a measu ...

2023