Nondetection zone assessment of an active islanding detection method and its experimental evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 517-525

  Bahrani, Behrooz ^a   Karimi, Houshang ^b   Iravani, Reza ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed generation (DG); islanding detection; microgrid; nondetection zone (NDZ); UL1741 test

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GENERATIONS; ISLANDING DETECTION; MICRO GRID; NON DETECTION ZONES; UL1741 TEST;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; TESTING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 79953186976     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2036016     Document Type: Article

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