Case Studies
The main projects, in which Mr. Alessandro Manunza has undertaken the described activities before and after funding M2EC, are summarised here below:
Year | Site | Activity |
2020 | Pilsworth (UK) | 4MW STOR: transformer inrush |
2020 | Gorton Cross (UK) | 500kW PV plant: harmonic analysis |
2020 | Ijmuiden (NL) | Explanation of the teeth surface marks of the gearbox F3 in a hot strip mill |
2020 | Sellafield (UK) | Waste Treatment Plant: SLD, short circuit, protection setting |
2020 | Flumeri (IT) | 150kV Over Head Line: evaluation of the electrical and magnetic fields |
2020 | Scurelle (IT) | 3MVA Gas Turbine: overvoltages due to VCB switching |
2019 | Billingham (UK) | 20MVA, 66/11kV substation: SLD, protection philosophy and setting |
2019 | Battersea (UK) | 11kV Distribution Network: cable sizing, short circuit, protection setting |
2019 | Coleshill (UK) | Compressed Gas Factory (20MVA): harmonic analysis, capacitor switching |
2019 | Mirafiori (IT) | 6MVA Generator: short circuit |
2019 | Swindom (UK) | Data Centre: short circuit, protection setting, transformer inrush |
2019 | Eurac (UK) | Energy Battery Storage: short circuit, protection setting |
2019 | Ashland (UK) | 10MW STOR: transformer inrush, harmonic analysis, load flow |
2018 | Parkbury (UK) | 6MW STOR: transformer inrush, short circuit, protection setting, harmonic analysis |
2018 | Fenton (UK) | Load flow, transformer inrush, short circuit, harmonic analysis |
2018 | Barrow in Furness (UK) | Waste Water Treatment: short circuit, protection setting |
2018 | Huthwaite (UK) | 6MW STOR: Load flow, transformer inrush, short circuit, protection setting |
2018 | Hullavington (UK) | Airfield: short circuit, protection setting |
2018 | Cavendish (UK) | 8MW STOR: short circuit, protection setting |
2018 | Coleshill (UK) | Compressed Gas Factory (20MVA): SLD, load flow, short circuit, motor starting, surge arrester sizing |
2018 | Chivas Regal (UK) | Whiskey factory: short circuit, protection setting |
2018 | Walton Le Dale (UK) | Waste Water Treatment: protection setting |
2018 | St. Kitts and Navis | Feasibility study for a 15MV PV farm and battery storage for island mode operation |
2018 | Dale Farm (UK) | 4MW PV farm: harmonic analysis |
2018 | Aarhus (DK) | Tramway: lightning overvoltages |
2018 | Bologna (IT) | Chemical Factory: load flow, short circuit, protection setting |
2018 | Alconbury (UK) | 24MVA, 33/11kV Primary substation: protection setting |
2017 | Saint Gobain (UK) | 132/33kV substation: short circuit, NER sizing, harmonic analysis |
2017 | Park Hill (UK) | 4MW PV farm: short circuit, protection setting, harmonic analysis |
2017 | Wickam (UK) | 20MW Battery Storage: short circuit, Automatic Voltage Control system |
2017 | Pen Bryn Oer (UK) | 6.5MW wind farm: load flow, power factor correction device, short circuit, harmonic analysis, transient of capacitor bank switching |
2017 | Hallburn (UK) | 13.2MW wind farm: transformer inrush and flicker calculation, harmonic analysis, protection setting, |
2017 | Mereval Estates (UK) | 3MW PV farm: harmonic analysis |
2017 | Netley (UK) | 10MW PV farm: transformer inrush and flicker calculation |
2016 | Low Bentham (UK) | 4MW PV farm: transformer inrush and flicker calculation |
2016 | House farm (UK) | 1MW PV farm: transformer inrush and flicker calculation |
2016 | Port of Tyne (UK) | Conveyor system: Earthing system, short circuit, protection setting, validation of cable sheath bonding |
2016 | Old Whittington (UK) | 500kW wind farm: Load flow, transformer inrush and flicker calculation |
2016 | Mynydd Portref (UK) | 12.6MW wind farm: load flow, Sizing of power factor correction device, short circuit |
2016 | Mynydd Brombil (UK) | 8MW wind farm: load flow, sizing of power factor correction device, transformer inrush, harmonic analysis |
2016 | UK | Feasibility study of 5MW Energy Storage System |
2016 | French Farm (UK) | 4MW wind farm: transformer inrush and flicker calculation, load flow, short circuit |
2016 | Hale (UK) | 5MW PV farm: Earthing system, Protection setting, transformer inrush and flicker calculation |
2016 | Barnby Moor (UK) | 5 MW PV farm: transformer inrush and flicker calculation |
2016 | Brafield (UK) | 5 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, earthing design. |
2016 | Cressing (UK) | 5.5 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2016 | Drayton Manor (UK) | 30 MW PV farm: protection system, harmonic analysis, transformer inrush, earthing system design. |
2016 | Exeter (UK) | 20 MW STOR: load flow, short circuit, protection setting, harmonic analysis, transformer inrush. |
2016 | Grantham (UK) | 4 MW PV farm: transformer inrush |
2016 | Kingspan (UK) | 5.5 MW PV farm: earthing system. |
2016 | Parklane (UK) | 1 MW PV farm: transformer inrush |
2016 | Royston (UK) | 7.5 MW PV farm: transformer inrush, earthing system |
2016 | Sywell (UK) | 4.5 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, earthing system |
2016 | Thornborough (UK) | 5 MW PV farm: transformer inrush, harmonic analysis, earthing design. |
2016 | Trowse (UK) | 5 MW PV farm: transformer inrush |
2015 | Bracknell (UK) | 20 MW STOR: load flow, short circuit |
2015 | Copley (UK) | 20 MW PV farm: transformer inrush |
2015 | HallFarm (UK) | 10 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush, PF control, earthing system |
2015 | Birch (UK) | 5.6 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2015 | Fiskerton (UK) | 30 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis |
2015 | Boxted (UK) | 16 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2015 | Moat (UK) | 4.4 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2015 | Rolleston (UK) | 17.6 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2015 | Langford (UK) | 13 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis |
2015 | Coombe (UK) | 6.6 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2015 | Alessandria (IT) | Michelin factory: load flow, short circuit, power factor correction, harmonic analysis, harmonic filter sizing |
2015 | Kenninghall (UK) | 12MW PV farm: earthing design, transformer inrush |
2015 | Hale (UK) | 5MW PV farm: earthing design, transformer inrush |
2015 | Littleton (UK) | 7.5MW PV farm: transformer inrush |
2015 | Ashburnham (UK) | 4.3MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2015 | Atherston (UK) | 14MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2014 | Cagliari (IT) | Organiser and scientific director of the EEUG Conference 2014 |
2014 | Southam (UK) | 8MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2014 | Gosfield (UK) | 10.8MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush. |
2014 | StOsyth (UK) | 12.5MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush. |
2014 | Garlands (UK) | 200kW PV farm: earthing design |
2014 | Alessandria (IT) | Michelin plant: harmonic analysis and power factor correction. |
2014 | Langford (UK) | 10.5MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, earthing design, transformer inrush. |
2014 | Westholme (UK) | 0.5 MW anaerobic digester: earthing design. |
2014 | Northmoor (UK) | 50MVA 132/33kV substation: SLD, transformer specification, earthing design |
2014 | Dragonfly (UK) | 40 MW PV farm and 33kV distribution network: feasibility study. |
2014 | AMEP (UK) | Wind turbine factory: feasibility study |
2014 | Pond Farm (UK) | 3.6 MW PV farm: earthing design, protection settings. |
2014 | Woodland (UK) | 10 MW PV farm: earthing design. |
2014 | Pisticci (Italy) | 120 MVA power plant: short circuit, CT sizing |
2014 | Schyolkovo (RU) | 11 MW trigeneration plant: short circuit, load flow, protection settings |
2014 | Barry (UK) | 20 MW STOR: short circuit, load flow, protection settings, transformer inrush. |
2014 | Llandarcy (UK) | 20 MW STOR: short circuit, load flow, protection settings, transformer inrush. |
2014 | Stradishall (UK) | 24 MW PV farm: harmonic analysis, transformer inrush |
2013 | Ellough (UK) | 23 MW PV farm: single line diagrams, harmonics analysis, protection settings, transformer inrush |
2013 | Como (Italy) | 9 MVA Waste-to-Energy power plant: feasibility study, short circuit. |
2013 | Rew (UK) | 4.3 MW PV farm: earthing design. |
2013 | Hazard (UK) | 5 MW PV farm: Engineering report, single line diagram, earthing design. |
2013 | Kundji (CD) | Isolated power grid for oil pumping stations: short circuit, load flow, motor starting. |
2013 | Leamington (UK) | 20 MW STOR: single line diagram, short circuit, load flow, protection settings. |
2013 | Peterborough (UK) | 20 MW STOR: short circuit, protection settings. |
2013 | Mochovce (SK) | 600 MVA nuclear power plant: temporary voltage transients |
2013 | Bolgiano (IT) | Enipower 90MVA power plant: load flow, short circuit. |
2012 | Adriatic Sea (IT) | Off-shore platform: Analysis of the electrical power system and detection of critical elements. |
2012 | Ricigliano (IT) | 12 MW Wind Farm: calculation of overvoltages induced in cable sheaths. |
2012 | Australia | Mines: short circuit calculation and protection settings. |
2012 | Uvini e Santu Miali (IT) | Hydro power plants: load flow, short circuit, protection settings. |
2012 | Bari (IT) | Oceanographic ship: dynamic simulation of electro-mechanical transients. |
2012 | Campagna (IT) | 20 MW Wind Farm: calculation of overvoltages induced in cable sheaths. |
2012 | Bonefro (IT) | 8 MW Wind Farm: calculation of overvoltages induced in cable sheaths. |
2012 | Ruwais (UAE) | Ship loaders: load flow, power factor correction and harmonic analysis. |
2011 | Isola di Capo Rizz. (IT) | 70 MW Wind Farm: load flow, short circuit and protection setting |
2011 | Portoscuso (IT) | 290 MVA power plant: load flow, short circuit, motor starting, transformer sizing. |
2011 | Bolzano (IT) | Steel rod factory: short circuit and protection settings of HV and MV relays. |
2011 | Puente Nuevo (ES) | 390 MVA thermal power plant: Fault analysis and solution proposal. |
2011 | Colleferro (IT) | 54 MW power plant: load flow, short circuit, protection setting |
2011 | Mishrif (IRQ) | Future power plant: starting of large motors in island condition. |
2011 | Alrar (DZ) | HV substation: protection setting. |
2010 | Castelmassa (IT) | 57 MW CC power plant: load flow, short circuit, transient stability. |
2010 | Crescentino (IT) | 12 MW Renewable Energy power plant: load flow, short circuit, transient stability. |
2010 | Alrar (DZ) | 66 kV Substation: protection setting. |
2010 | Agiba (ET) | 100 kW Photovoltaic Power Plant: feasibility study of an isolated grid whose sources are a photovoltaic field and some diesel generators. |
2010 | Zubair (IRQ) | Oil Field Development Project, 100 MVA DGS: load flow, short circuit, motor starting, harmonic analysis. |
2010 | Ferrera Erbognone (IT) | ENI Green Data Center: insulation coordination. |
2010 | Castaic (USA) | 1500 MW hydro power plant: calculation of transient recovery voltage (TRV). |
2010 | Marcinelle (BE) | 408 MW power plant: small signal stability, transient stability, harmonic analysis |
2010 | Bolgiano (IT) | Enipower power plant: short circuit, protection and measurement single line diagrams. |
2010 | Algesiras (ES) | 800 MW Algesiras Power Plant: tuning parameters of generators AVR and PSS. |
2009 | Menzel Ledjmet East (DZ) | Menzel Ledjmet East Project: Load Flow, short circuit and electromechanical transients. |
2009 | Pisa (IT) | 3.3 MW Photovoltaic Power Plant: BOS calculation, general technical specification, load flow, cable sizing. |
2009 | Mellitah (LAR) | 2 MW Photovoltaic Power Plant: feasibility study of an isolated grid whose sources are a photovoltaic field and some diesel generators. |
2009 | San Gregorio Magno (IT) | 50 MW Wind Farm: load flow, short circuit, protection setting of HV and MV relays, VT and CT sizing. |
2009 | Mazara del Vallo (IT) | Wind Farm: insulation coordination study (switching overvoltages). |
2009 | Campofelice (IT) | Wind Farm: insulation coordination study (switching overvoltages). |
2009 | Alessandria (IT) | Michelin plant: load flow, short circuit and protection setting. |
2009 | Isola di Capo Rizz. (IT) | 94 MW Wind Farm: load flow, short circuit and protection setting |
2009 | El Feel (LAR) | Oil extraction field: Load flow, short circuit and protection setting |
2009 | Caccamo (IT) | 18.5 MW windfarm: load flow, short circuit and protection setting |
2009 | Alia/Sclafani (IT) | 25.5 MW windfarm: short circuit and protection setting of HV and MV relays. |
2008 | Puente Nuevo (ES) | 330MW power plant – Load Flow, LV protection setting, VT and CT sizing. |
2008 | Isola di Capo Rizz. (IT) | 40 MW Wind Farm: short circuit and protection setting. |
2008 | Qurrayah (KSA) | Qurrayah Sea Water Plant: insulation coordination study (lightning and switching overvoltages). |
2008 | S. Gregorio M. (IT) | 40 MW Wind Farm: short circuit, VT and CT sizing, protection setting. |
2008 | Osoppo (IT) | Ferriere Nord: protection setting. |
2008 | Melfi (IT) | 80 MW combined cycle: transient stability. |
2008 | Sermide (IT) | 1150 MW power plant: Load Flow, short circuit and protection setting of MV relays. |
2008 | Livorno (IT) | FSRU Livorno Project: load flow, short circuit, motor starting, transient stability. |
2008 | Atexcaco (MX) | 30.5 MW Hydro power plant: grounding grid sizing, load flow, short circuit and protection setting. |
2008 | Giammoro (IT) | Duferdofin steelworks: short circuit and protection setting. |
2007 | Riva del Garda (IT) | 80 MW combined cycle: transient stability. |
2007 | Turkey | ENI – Trans Anatolian Pipeline: protection and measuring single line diagrams, Load Flow, short circuit, motor starting, harmonic analysis, transient stability. |
2007 | Belgium | Esso Antwerp Refinery: short circuit and protection setting for 11 substations. |
2007 | Torino Stura (IT) | Michelin plant: load flow, short circuit and protection setting. |
2007 | Sannazzaro d. B. (IT) | Isocraker and related facilities: protection coordination. |
2006 | Brindisi (IT) | Polimeri Europa industrial plant: protection setting. |
2006 | Port Harcourt (WAN) | Obama flowstation of NAOC: protection setting. |
2006 | Nerviano (IT) | Pharmacia, industrial plant of Nerviano: load flow, short circuit, protection setting. |
2006 | Roma (IT) | Nuova fiera di Roma: protection setting. |
2006 | Simeri Crichi (IT) | 800 MW power plant: CT validation, protection setting at HV, MV and LV levels. |
2006 | Rozzano (IT) | Istituto Clinica Humanitas: protection setting. |
2005 | Ras Laffan (QA) | 800 MW power plant: bus bar change over simulations, fault analysis |
2005 | Ivana (HR) | Offshore platform: Load flow, short circuit, transient stability studies |
2005 | Bu Hasa (AE) | Steel rod factory: CTs validation, insulation coordination |
2005 | S. Barbara (IT) | 380 MW power plant: Load flow, short circuit, Grounding grid sizing, On Load Tap changer sizing, transient stability studies, bus bar change over simulations |
2005 | Hadeed (SA) | Steel rod factory: setting and selectivity of more than 500 protections. |
2004 | Kashagan (KZ) | Offshore platform: Load flow, short circuit |
2004 | Ostiglia (IT) | 1500 MW power plant: Load flow, short circuit, Grounding grid sizing, On Load Tap changer sizing, setting of protections of generator and HV substation, transient stability studies, bus bar change over simulations |
2003-2005 | Chivasso (IT) | 1150 MW power plant: Load flow, short circuit, Grounding grid sizing, On Load Tap changer sizing, setting of protections of generator and HV substation, transient stability studies, bus bar change over simulations |
2003-2005 | Yambu (SA) | 160 MW power plant: Load flow, short circuit, bus bar change over simulations |
2003 | Sermide (IT) | 1150 MW power plant: Load flow, short circuit, Grounding grid sizing, On Load Tap changer sizing, setting of protections of generator and HV substation |
2002-2004 | Barka (OM) | 530 MW power plant: Load flow, short circuit, Grounding grid sizing, bus bar change over simulations |