An investigation on the nondetection zones of synchronous distributed generation anti-islanding protection

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 593-600

  Vieira, Jose C M ^a   Freitas, Walmir ^b   Xu, Wilsun ^c   Morelato, Andre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed generation (DG); Frequency relay; Islanding; Nondetection zones; Synchronous machines; Voltage relay

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RELAYS; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

ANTI-ISLANDING PROTECTION; FREQUENCY RELAY; NONDETECTION ZONE; VOLTAGE RELAY;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION;

EID: 42249114994     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2007.915831     Document Type: Article

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