Analysis and mitigation of voltage offsets in multi-inverter microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 354-363

  Iyer, Shivkumar V ^a,b   Belur, Madhu N ^a   Chandorkar, Mukul C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Capacitor emulation; Circulating currents; Decentralized control; Droop control laws; Microgrids; Voltage offsets

Indexed keywords

AC SYSTEMS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CIRCULATING CURRENT; CIRCULATING CURRENTS; CONTROL LAWS; DC OFFSETS; DESIRED CONDITIONS; DROOP CONTROL; DROOP CONTROL LAWS; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MICRO GRID; OPERATING CONDITION; PARALLEL-CONNECTED; PHASE ANGLES; VOLTAGE MAGNITUDE; VOLTAGE OFFSETS;

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; HARDWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTIVE POWER;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 79951956231     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2010.2074202     Document Type: Article

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