Islanding detection assessment of multi-inverter systems with active frequency drifting methods

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 480-486

  Lopes, Luiz A C ^a   Zhang, Yongzheng ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed generation (DG); Inverters; Islanding detection; Non detection zones; Photovoltaic systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

FREQUENCY DRIFTING; ISLANDING DETECTION METHODS (IDMS); MULTI-INVERTER SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 37749009766     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2007.911188     Document Type: Article

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