Transient operation of a four-leg inverter for autonomous applications with unbalanced load

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 399-407

  Vechiu, Ionel ^a   Curea, Octavian ^a   Camblong, Haritza ^a,b  

^a Technopôle Izarbel   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Current control; Dc ac power conversion; Hybrid power integration; Inverters; Power quality; Symmetrical components; Unbalance; Voltage control

Indexed keywords

AC LOAD; AVERAGE MODEL; CONSTANT FREQUENCY; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; CURRENT CONTROL; DC SIGNALS; DC-AC POWER CONVERSION; FOUR-LEG INVERTERS; HYBRID POWER INTEGRATION; HYBRID POWER SYSTEMS; REFERENCE FRAME; SEQUENCE COMPONENTS; SYMMETRICAL COMPONENTS; THREE-PHASE VOLTAGES; TRANSFORMERLESS; TRANSIENT OPERATION; UNBALANCED LOADS;

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; POWER CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77249123352     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2025275     Document Type: Article

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