Control and protection of a microgrid connected to utility through back-to-back converters

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1424-1435

  Majumder, Ritwik ^a   Dewadasa, Manjula ^b   Ghosh, Arindam ^b   Ledwich, Gerard ^b   Zare, Firuz ^b  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active and reactive power sharing; Autonomous microgrid; Back to back converter; Protection

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER SHARING; BACK-TO-BACK CONVERTER; BIDIRECTIONAL POWER FLOW; CONTROL AND PROTECTION; CONTROL SCHEMES; DC-BUS VOLTAGES; HIGH CURRENTS; INVERSE TIME CHARACTERISTIC; MICRO GRID; PROTECTION; PROTECTION SYSTEMS; RELAY SCHEMES; RELIABLE OPERATION;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79956131441     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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