Advanced power electronic conversion and control system for universal and flexible power management

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-243

  Bifaretti, Stefano ^a   Zanchetta, Pericle ^b   Watson, Alan ^b   Tarisciotti, Luca ^b   Clare, Jon C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Converter control; multilevel converters; power distribution

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CONTROL; BIDIRECTIONAL POWER FLOW; CONTROL POWER FLOW; CONVERTER CONTROLS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL GRIDS; ELECTRICITY NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FREQUENCY VARIATION; FUTURE NETWORKS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; OPERATING CONDITION; POWER DISTRIBUTION; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; POWER MANAGEMENTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SHORT CIRCUIT; VOLTAGE UNBALANCES;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

DESIGN;

EID: 79957739925     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2011.2115260     Document Type: Article

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