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FACULTAD DE
INGENIERÍA Y CIENCIAS

Alvaro Ernesto Hoffer Garcés

Títulos y Grados
Título:
  • Ingeniero Civil Electricista, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Grados:
  • Licenciado en Ciencias de la Ingeniería de la Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.
  • Magíster en Ciencias de la Ingeniería con mención en Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.
  • Doctor en Ciencias de la Ingeniería con mención en Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
  • Doctor of Science (Technology) – Energy Systems, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Lappeenranta, Finlandia.
Áreas de interés
  • Diseño de Máquinas Eléctricas
  • Accionamientos de Máquinas Eléctricas
  • Electromovilidad
  • Energías Renovables
Docencia
  • IIE524 PROTECCIONES DE SISTEMAS ELÉCTRICOS
  • IIE157 INTRODUCCIÓN A LA INGENIERIA ELÉCTRICA
Investigación
Publicaciones en Revistas
  • A. E. Hoffer, R. H. Moncada, B. J. Pavez-Lazo, J. A. Tapia and L. Laurila, "Calculation of a Current Vector Trajectory for Enhanced Operation of Synchronous Reluctance Generators Including Saturation," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1197-1204, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2022.3161820. A. E. Hoffer, I. Petrov, J. J. Pyrhönen and J. A. Tapia, "Stainless-Core Submersible Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 28089-28100, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3058593.
  • A. E. Hoffer, I. Petrov, J. J. Pyrhönen, J. A. Tapia and G. Bramerdorfer, "Analysis of a Tooth-Coil Winding Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machine With an Unequal Teeth Width," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 71512-71524, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2987872.
  • A. E. Hoffer, R. H. Moncada, B. J. Pavez and J. A. Tapia, "A Novel Method for Finite-Element Modeling of a Commercial Synchronous Reluctance Machine," in IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 806-812, March 2018, doi: 10.1109/TLA.2018.8358659.
  • M. A. Tapia Montero, A. E. Hoffer Garces, J. A. Tapia Ladino and R. R. Wallace Collao, "Simulation and Analysis of an Axial Flux Induction Machine," in IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1263-1269, 2017, doi: 10.1109/TLA.2017.7959345.

Publicaciones en Conferencias

  • C. Gallardo, J. A. Tapia, M. Degano, H. Mahmoud and A. E. Hoffer, "Rotor Asymmetry Impact on Synchronous Reluctance Machines Performance”, XXV International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), Valencia, 2022 (Accepted).
  • I. Petrov, A. E. Hoffer and J. Pyrhönen, "Reduction of torque ripple in synchronous machines by quasi-skew-asymmetric rotor," 2020 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), Gothenburg, 2020, pp. 298-304, doi: 10.1109/ICEM49940.2020.9270931.
  • A. E. Hoffer, J. A. Tapia, I. Petrov and J. Pyrhönen, "Design of a Stainless Core Submersible Permanent Magnet Generator for Tidal Energy," IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019, pp. 1010-1015, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927156.
  • N. Reyes, M. A. Tapia, J. A. Tapia, W. Jara and A E. Hoffer, "Multiphysical Design of an Axial Induction Motor with an Anisotropic Rotor," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIII Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA), Concepcion, 2018, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICA-ACCA.2018.8609856.
  • M. A. Tapia, A. E. Hoffer and J. A. Tapia, "Analysis of the magnetizing current requirement of an axial flux induction machine," 2016 IEEE International Conference on Automatica (ICA-ACCA), Curico, 2016, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICA-ACCA.2016.7778446.
  • A. E. Hoffer, R. H. Moncada, B. J. Pavez, J. A. Tapia and L. Laurila, "A high efficiency control strategy for synchronous reluctance generator including saturation," 2016 XXII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), Lausanne, 2016, pp. 39-45, doi: 10.1109/ICELMACH.2016.7732503.
  • A. E. Hoffer, R. H. Moncada and J. A. Tapia, "Development of a Finite Element Model of a synchronous reluctance generator," 2015 CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON), Santiago, 2015, pp. 487-492, doi: 10.1109/Chilecon.2015.7400422.
Extensión
Administración
  • Coordinador Área de Sistemas Eléctricos
  • Administrador de Servicios y Equipos
  • Coordinador Inclusión Docente y Equipo Programa de Inclusión Académica (PIA)
Medardo Leopoldo Navarro Cifuentes

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alvaro.hoffer@ufrontera.cl

           


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